Hardware Profiles

[tshad]

I am trying to set up different Profiles - One for home and one for the
office. I have an XP Pro Laptop.

I followed some instructions on setting up multiple Hardware Profiles and
while in each profile, I set the IP settings. But they don't work between
profiles. Both profiles will have the LAST IP settings I set up.

How do I make each profile have their own settings?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

What you are experiencing is the expected behavior. The only way to
accomplish what you want by using hardware profiles is to have two adapters.
One is disabled in profile1 and the other is disabled in profile2. Of
course, if you have two adapters, you can use them independently as needed
on different networks and you don't need to bother with profiles.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[tshad]

Unfortunately, I don't have 2 adaptors (and don't really want to put another
adapter in my machine just for this). I do have a wireless adaptors (both
adaptors are internal).

It would have been nice to have been able to use User Profiles or Hardware
Profiles to allow me to do this.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[BINZA@]

is dhcp used at either site?

Unfortunately, I don't have 2 adaptors (and don't really want to put
another adapter in my machine just for this). I do have a wireless
adaptors (both adaptors are internal).

It would have been nice to have been able to use User Profiles or Hardware
Profiles to allow me to do this.

Thanks,

Tom

 

[tshad]

Yes.

At either my work or my wifes work DHCP is used.

At home I just set up a static IP.

Tom

 

[BINZA@]

Then why dont you try putting your static ip details in the alternate
configuration, the way this works is if after a period of time a dhcp
address is not issued it will use the alternate details. So when in work it
will use dhcp and when at home it will use correct static without u even
having 2 choose a hardware profile. properties of my network places\
properties of the network connection\ properties of tcp\ip \ alternate.
good luck.

 

[tshad]

That worked great. Not only at work, but at a training seminar I went to
and had to use the laptop at.

Thanks,

Tom