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Hello all,
Not sure if this issue has been addressed before or not. The problem I face is people bring home their work laptop and use their wireless connection at home to connect to the Internet. This is fine but when they come back in the office it seems Windows still thinks it should be connecting to their home wireless network. The fix is simple they just reboot their laptop and they get into the shared drive and email. It's bit confusing for them because I have seen them dock their laptop, turn on the laptop, login and it will say Outlook offline and not shared drive but as soon as they reboot it fixes the problem.
Is there something I can do to fix this in Active directory? It beats walking into manager’s offices all the time just to reboot their laptop.
.IT TECH, stuck on helpdesk

If they do wired at work and wireless at home setup hardware profiles called Work and Home.
One profile has the wireless disabled [work] and the other wired nic disabled [home]

Like wanderer said. Or maybe just wire the laptop dock, that could be enough. Once the laptop is docked, the wireless could be connected to the moon if it prefers, it wouldn't matter since the wired network would take over. Sadly that wouldn't take care of any login scripts you might be using so the users will need to log out / log in to trigger it.

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