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452885	2006-05-07 06:45:00	Hi, to be able to connect to our work network on my laptop I have the TCP/IP properties configured for my IP address on the network and the router/gateway address. Today I was setting up the laptop to use at home instead of the 'bigbox' which is going to get fixed, and so I unplugged the Ethernet cable (from the broadband modem) and plugged it into my laptop. The only way 'I' could find then to be able to connect to the net was to go into the TCP/IP properties (for the ethernet adaptor) and change then to the same as the home computer was. My question is that I would have thought it possible to somehow swap between networks using some form of profile for the settings - (or is that what I have to do, set up a new log-on profile on my laptop). I know I could maybe use the IBM connections programme tho I don't really want to. tks George	Erger (10062)
452886	2006-05-07 08:33:00	You have an IBM laptop? You can be my friend. There is no windows provision for such profiles (specifically), but you can get around it in one of two ways: 1) Convince your IT admins at work to run a DHCP server that automatically assigns IPs (infact I'm surprised they haven't already), and then configure your router to do the same (configured by default normally). This way you only need to set your IPs to obtain automatically, and they will work in both environments without configuration on your part. 2) Configure alternate IP addresses under TCP/IP properties. If you have XP: Go to the same place you'd normally go to change IP settings. Click Advanced. Add a second IP address / subnet mask, a second default gateway, and another DNS server. That should work... although you may find whichever you've configured as secondary (lower down on the list) to be the slower of the two different configs.	Growly (6)
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