Hi, I am trying to find out if something should be possible if so I can invest the time to make it work. I use 7.0 on a dell laptop at home (modem and dial-up) and also at work (lan). I need to be able to log on to a novell server at another office using dhcp and a different login name and password than the ones I use on my own machine (the work logins are the same). We use static IPs at work. Is this something I can do via schemes at boot up. I do not need to share my system at teh other place - simply access server files and printer. TIA Francesco
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
IPs at work. Is this something I can do via schemes at boot up. I do not need to share my system at teh other place - simply access server files and printer.
As far as your underlying TCP/IP setup, this can/should all be done at the server level. I'm doing the same with my laptop here at work and home. My dhcp server(s) issue the IP address, gateway and nameservers to the laptop, based on it's MAC address. Any other protocols you are running on top of this should be able to be configured via schemes. Alternately, if you used cardmgr with PCMCIA and you want to define these things at the client side, you can go that route too, with schemes. On my other laptop, I have it this way, before I learned the flexibility of dhcpd. I've been migrating all my machines now to get their settings from the server, as it lets me have one place to define gateway and nameservers for a number of machines. Stew Benedict
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From your kind reply am I right in assuming that I can boot one way and have dhcpd running and get my login that way and then boot t'other way and be back as I am now. Sorry for my ignorance.
Regards Francesco
I'm on the wrong laptop at the moment, or I'd give you the details. Yes you can set it all up at your end, BUT you don't need to reboot, this is Linux after all! YOu can take down your networking, change the profile and bring it back up again. This is what cardmgr does with schemes. Here is an outline of what happens: 1) network connection is up and running in a given profile - say "home" 2) cardctl scheme work 3) network connection is taken down, and brought back up, with appropriate network configuration cardctl scheme home would do the opposite It wasn't clear from your question whether you are using a PCMCIA network adapter. If not, you could still accomplish the same thing with some scripts, if there isn't already a tool out there. Take a look on freshmeat.net for "network profiles" or something. Stew Benedict
From your kind reply am I right in assuming that I can boot one way and have dhcpd running and get my login that way and then boot t'other way and be back as I am now. Sorry for my ignorance.
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