Two different profiles on laptop?

[Guest]

Hopefully this won't be 2 difficult! At home have high speed Internet on
laptop through a wireless router but at work I'd like to be able to plug into
a cat5 jack and access the small 4 computer network. Will XP automatically
see the two different networks or how would I go about setting that up? I'd
like to be able to take the laptop back and forth to work. Also, at work,
all the pc's access the Internet through one of the pc's that acts as a
server I guess (ICSW)? Thanks, Tom.

 

[Chuck]

Hopefully this won't be 2 difficult! At home have high speed Internet on
laptop through a wireless router but at work I'd like to be able to plug into
a cat5 jack and access the small 4 computer network. Will XP automatically
see the two different networks or how would I go about setting that up? I'd
like to be able to take the laptop back and forth to work. Also, at work,
all the pc's access the Internet through one of the pc's that acts as a
server I guess (ICSW)? Thanks, Tom.

Tom,

If you have ICS at work, and a (NAT?) router at home, you should have DHCP at
both locations. Assuming that you power the laptop off when carrying it between
home and work, it should automatically pick up a DHCP assignment each time you
connect and power it on again.

If you don't have DHCP in both locations, try one of these third party programs,
that let you store multiple network configurations and switch between them
easily:

Mobile Net Switch
http://www.mobilenetswitch.com

MultiNetwork Manager
http://www.globesoft.com/mnm_home.html

NetSwitcher
http://www.netswitcher.com

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