Have to Repair Local Area Connection every time

[Kevin]

I have a user that connects to a wireless network when he
goes home at night, but when he comes back to the office
in the morning and plugs in his ethernet cable, he
must "repair" the local area connection before it will work

any ideas as to why this is??

 

[Eric Cross [MVP]]

Greetings Kevin,

There should be no reason to repair the connection. The local area
connection needs to be enabled and disabled each time you connect to a
different LAN. The other solution is to configure the network connection for
multiple networks.

Automatic Configuration for Multiple Networks
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/networking/autoconfig.asp

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Eric Cross, MS-MVP (Windows Networking)