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Kettian   03-21-2006 at 08:09:41 PM

My Wife has a laptop provided by her employer, that is manually configured to access the internet via there i-mac LAN is it possible to enable the system to connect via our home PC network without losing the settings for the Mac system any help appreciated.

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folken   03-22-2006 at 01:57:25 AM
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Have you tried getting online with it at home? I'm not a master of mac os yet but it seems to me that the only things they could fiddle with to make it only get online at work would be the IP address or browser proxy. Do you know if it has a static IP or a proxy set in its web browser?
I'd list the steps but I dont have an osx comp in front of me atm and I cant exactly recall all the names of the menus...

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Kettian   03-22-2006 at 07:04:04 PM
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Have you tried getting online with it at home? I'm not a master of mac os yet but it seems to me that the only things they could fiddle with to make it only get online at work would be the IP address or browser proxy. Do you know if it has a static IP or a proxy set in its web browser?
I'd list the steps but I dont have an osx comp in front of me atm and I cant exactly recall all the names of the menus...



I have tried getting online at home and there in lies the problem, the IP address asigned for the laptop at work is static and has been assigned for the Mac network, the home address is different every login, with XP home it won't automatically assign the address without removing the manually assigned one, my wife does not have the knowledge to change the settings or manually assign them, I can half remember there being a uttilty that will do this but can't remember what it's called.

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folken   03-22-2006 at 07:40:35 PM
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What you want is a Location Manger. I know of a few for windows but I havn't got a clue what there is for apple... I seem to recall something being built in... Try putting location manager into the help and see what you get. Make sure you write down all of the static info before messing with anything though ;)

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