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(deleted) Mon 19-Jun-06 15:05:30

1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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My daughter is taking her laptop to school so she can use it there by logging on to the school network. When she comes home, she

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(deleted) Mon 19-Jun-06 15:10:14

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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The proxy settings are stored in the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet .

I have to switch when taking my laptop on to a client's site. An easy way is to just save the registry key to a .reg file for home settings, then do the same for school settings. Dump them on the desktop and just double click the settings you want to use.

Sandgrounder
(fountain of knowledge) Mon 19-Jun-06 15:20:19

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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If IE is the only problem, then you could install Firefox for use at home, and let her use IE at school.

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Acorn RiscPC700 (RiscOS 3.5) - Acorn A410 (RiscOS 3.1) - Sun Ultra 10 (Solaris 7)

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(deleted) Mon 19-Jun-06 15:58:30

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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Thanks for the two suggestions above. I would have thought lots of people would have had similar probs when moving betweeen home/work/school sites and that there shold be a simple system built into the OS to allow you to log on to different networks with different settings.

Cheers

Finn

eusty
(eat-sleep-adslguide) Mon 19-Jun-06 16:04:43

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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There are things you can do with netsh, but it gets rather complicated

I have seen software which will allow you to easily switch networks...but can't for the life of me remember the name

Steve

Do NOT click ......

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(deleted) Mon 19-Jun-06 16:41:49

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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I don't do complicated ;-) Life is tooooooooo short!

Switching to a different lan on a PC should be as easy as switching to a different network when you roam with your mobi. ;-)

Finn

Sandgrounder
(fountain of knowledge) Mon 19-Jun-06 19:38:53

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I suspect one of the reasons that school/work etc make it complicated is that they don't want you connecting the computer to other networks for security reasons.

ZeN Home 500 - DrayTek Vigor 2600VG
Acorn RiscPC700 (RiscOS 3.5) - Acorn A410 (RiscOS 3.1) - Sun Ultra 10 (Solaris 7)

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(deleted) Mon 19-Jun-06 22:33:03

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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Try MultiNetwork Manager:

http://www.globesoft.com/index.asp

Best $10 I ever spent (apart from that time in a lapdance bar in Florida, but that's another story).

There's a free trial download.

yarwell
(legend) Mon 19-Jun-06 23:05:58

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well it is like mobile roaming if they use DHCP rather than fixed IP addresses. If a proxy is important to them they should make it transparent. None of this stuff need ever be visible to the user.

Phil

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(deleted) Tue 20-Jun-06 07:57:18

Re: 1 Zen LAN and 1 Not Zen LAN - help please!

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I agree, but in this day and age people move about a lot and there has to be a way of allowing that movement to flow and still keep things secure.

Cheers

Finn ;-)

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