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Network Manager

I've tried netswitcher and multi-network manager but really haven't found a product I feel comfortable with yet. Can anyone reccomend an app that will

1. Change proxy settings:
2. Change ip address
3. Manage wireless cards (this is a biggie)
4. map network drives
5. run scripts

The apps I've tried don;t do a very good job with the wireless portion of things. It fights with the wireless zero config even though I told them to use the windows config. Thanks!!

IBM's app is amazing but it's propietary to their thinkpads i think.

The--Captain

Are you talking about something that you can run on your laptop that will change your network configuration (particularly w/ regard to your list of 5 configuration items) with a single-click (or very few clicks ;-)?

Upon what OS do you need to software to run?

In any case, I must admit that if I understand your request, I'm rather short on answers. I am certainly interested in viable responses to your question, as this is something that would be quite handy...

Cheers,
-Jon

Rob Williams

Netswitcher is one of the most complete, or a less sophisticated method would be to create a batch file for each location, or for DHCP, click on it and it will make the necessary basic changes, as in the sample below. I don't believe you will find a method that deals with the wireless connections, however I would be interested to see one as well, it would be quite useful.

rem Reset network Settings for static IP
netsh interface ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = 10.0.0.99 mask = 255.255.255.0
netsh interface ip set address name = "Local Area Connection" gateway = 10.0.0.254 gwmetric = 1
netsh interface ip set dns name = "Local Area Connection" source = static addr = 24.222.0.91
netsh interface ip add dns name = "Local Area Connection" addr = 66.66.0.1
netsh interface ip show config
pause

prlit

ASKER

Yea, netswitcher is nice but doesn't manage wireless networks very well. If you're not quite sure what I'm talking about - globesoft.com has multi-network manager.

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prlit

ASKER

Playing with it now. I'll let you know. Need to mess around with Wireless and Win2K.

Rob Williams

Let us know how you make out,
--Rob

prlit

ASKER

This software is amazing.

Rob Williams

Thanks prlit. It is the best I have seen to date.
--Rob