RE: [WinMac] Location manager


Michael bartosh(bartosh[at]tamu.edu)
Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:50:21 -0500


>There's a programme called (IIRC) NetSwitch which I downloaded a while
>ago but haven't yet got round to trying it. I can't give you the name
>because it's on another machine's disk.
> > Christian Raymond [mailto:craymond@algene.com] wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to easilly switch network configuration in
> > Windows,
>
>

[SNIP]

>
>This seems to work (most of the time) even for our most fumblefingered
>and least patient user, and gives no one else any trouble.
>
>It won't help if your users access different networks locally and
>elsewhere, or have different usernames for local and remote access, or
>different dial-up parameters. AFAIK Netswitch is meant to handle that
>sort of thing. I don't know whether it can also cope with differing
>internet options (e.g. network: use lan and proxy server; elsewhere use
>modem) and so on.
>

So what about the other features Location Manager offers- ie changing
timezones, system configurations, internet server sets (ie I have to
use a different SMTP server with each of the 5 ISP's I use
regularly), auto-open items, etc.

Just wondering.

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