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Is there any easy way of setting up windows 2000 professional with multiple network locations?

I use a laptop computer and work from several different locations throughout the country, i want to be able to turn my laptop on and select a differentnetwork setup for each location.

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by abubin

i think you can create a user for each site. Then you can login to each user based on each site/domain. For example, you can have same user name greg. Then to login to different site on each country (provided that you have connection to them), you can have greg@domain.com. Depending on how you domains and sites are created.

You can have greg@usa.company.com, greg@africa.company.com, greg@malaysia.company.com...etc..

by ray.gala

Hi Greg,

I really don't know what the previous guy meant under "...create a new user for each web site...", but the main idea is correct. The difference is -- all you need is to create several users for your COMPUTER (not a web site), to save different network settings for every user, and every time you want to use another network connection, just login under another name.
I believe it will work. Good luck in further fighting with Win2000.

by pvogelaar

Implementing multiple userprofiles has the drawback of implementing just as many "My Document" locations and other profile specific settings. Some (development environment) programs might even stop behaving properly as they were not installed under the current user account.

You might consider a product such as Netswitcher (http://www.netswitcher.com) which allows you to change all network parameters at startup or any other time you choose.

by gbainbridge

You can not specify multiple network identities (settings, protocols, properties, etc) without a 3rd party application. It would be nice if the first 2 suggestions could work, but unfortunately it's not possible to have different network settings based on profiles. Each user profile uses the same IP address, domain and such.

My suggestion is to use some 3rd party application, as suggested in the 3rd answer. Netswitcher comes highly recommended, but I haven't used it personally and don't know if it will fully meet your needs.

If you do find something, let me know! I'd love to add it to my toolbox.

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