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by rstrapple

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I have laptops that move between two different sites thus there are different Network settings. If I create different Hardware profiles for each site will it keep the network setting associated with each hardware profile?

If not then whats the answer other then manual having the user change thier network settings?

Thanks alot

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by joseph moore

Yes, different hardware settings do not affect IP addressing. In my company, we handle this by having our remote users use DHCP when they go to different offices. Just yesterday, I had a user in from Paris plug into our network, get an IP from our DHCP server, and connect to her mail server in Paris for e-mail. Makes it all very nice, not having to switch addresses, gateways and such.

by countupir

The problem with computers are people use them. I don't advise letting customers admin settings. DHCP is the answer for IP settings.

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