switching between two network configs

[jhall251]

Hi - I am a member of two networks and would like to avoid reconfiguring every time I move the laptop from one site to the other. The Alternate Configuration tab wont work because both networks have dhcp enabled but on one of them I use a static ip and a gateway - so xp finds the dhcp server and wont use the alternate config info. Is there another way to set up two configurations and switch easily?

Thanks for any help!
Joe Halloran

 

[chuka]

Try

http://www.netswitcher.com

 

[EddieVenus]

Netswitcher is the way to go. You would have to have static on both configs to use the alternate config properly in this situation.

 

[jhall251]

Well I bought NS yesterday - looks like a great product but I have not been able to get it to save changes because it thinks I dont have the right privileges on my xp laptop - I have logged on as a local domain administrator and as an office domain admin both with network config privileges but no go - the NS author says I have to be a local admin which I take to mean an admin in the local computer domain - but that has not worked. So I am still changing things by hand. sigh.

Joe Halloran

 

[flippo]

If you have Win2k/WinXP on your PC, you can try netsh.exe (interface context). You can read about this tool on the online help. Hope this help you...

 

[J741]

Try this: Do not log in as a user with administator priveledges, log in as "administrator". To get the manual login prompt (not the user selector screen) imply press ctrl-alt-del twice at the login screen.