My laptop is a constant companion, traveling with me between two Compuware offices and home. As you may suspect, I occasionally have to tweak my network settings in order to get things to work properly.
I recently stumbled across an administrator utility named netsh.exe which has made this task a lot easier. It is very powerful and really well documented in Windows XP's help center. The following is a set of steps you can use to create netsh scripts which will set up your laptop for any location you're trying to connect from.
- Set up your network to work at your current location
- From a command prompt, run: netsh -c interface ip dump > c:\
.txt The filename and path can be anything, it is just a text file: make sure to name the file to reflect the location you're currently configuring (like home.txt). - You now can manually edit this text file, ‘#’ is a comment character so you can comment out large blocks for testing reasons. I usually comment out everything but the adapters I know I’ll need at a given location (it's faster this way).
- Do this for every location you use your laptop.
Now, whenever you need to load the settings you saved for a given location, just open a command prompt and run: netsh -f c:\home.txt
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