Dave
April 29th 03, 11:17 PM
Don't confuse a hardware profile with a network profile.
A hardware profile only deals with the phyical hardware in
the computer. You can use hardware profiles to disable
certain hardware in certain circumstances.
A network profile, which would be used with a third party
application like IBM's Access Connect, has nothing to do
with hardware and everything to do with configuring your
network card.
You want to be able to create different network
configurations based on your physical location. This is
understandable, but not as easy as you might think. I
have seen posts from today which talk about using
an "alternate configuration" in the TCP/IP properties, but
I have never used this, myself.
You may want to look for a shareware program that allows
you to do network configuration profiles and switching.
Access Connect is the only one I've ever used, and chances
are it will only work on an IBM computer since it's made
for IBM laptops.
I hope this helps.
Dave
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a work laptop that has assigned an assigned IP
>address within a domain and a home workgroup network with
>3 other machines utilizing DHCP that I would like to add
>the laptop to. The one quick idea that I have gathered
>from trying to read other postings is to establish
another
>hardware profile for the laptop. I tried to set up a work
>harware profile and a home hardware profile and then
>modify the network settings within the home hardware
>profile to reflect my home workgroup network. However,
>when I did this the network settings changed for both
>profiles. Did I do something wrong? Is there an better
>method by which to accomplish my goal? I would think that
>this issue is a common request for many people who have
>laptops that they want to switch back and forth from
their
>work domain network and home workgroup network. Any
>additional ideas?
>
>Thanks
>.
>
A hardware profile only deals with the phyical hardware in
the computer. You can use hardware profiles to disable
certain hardware in certain circumstances.
A network profile, which would be used with a third party
application like IBM's Access Connect, has nothing to do
with hardware and everything to do with configuring your
network card.
You want to be able to create different network
configurations based on your physical location. This is
understandable, but not as easy as you might think. I
have seen posts from today which talk about using
an "alternate configuration" in the TCP/IP properties, but
I have never used this, myself.
You may want to look for a shareware program that allows
you to do network configuration profiles and switching.
Access Connect is the only one I've ever used, and chances
are it will only work on an IBM computer since it's made
for IBM laptops.
I hope this helps.
Dave
>-----Original Message-----
>I have a work laptop that has assigned an assigned IP
>address within a domain and a home workgroup network with
>3 other machines utilizing DHCP that I would like to add
>the laptop to. The one quick idea that I have gathered
>from trying to read other postings is to establish
another
>hardware profile for the laptop. I tried to set up a work
>harware profile and a home hardware profile and then
>modify the network settings within the home hardware
>profile to reflect my home workgroup network. However,
>when I did this the network settings changed for both
>profiles. Did I do something wrong? Is there an better
>method by which to accomplish my goal? I would think that
>this issue is a common request for many people who have
>laptops that they want to switch back and forth from
their
>work domain network and home workgroup network. Any
>additional ideas?
>
>Thanks
>.
>