How to swap between two network connections

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AlanTerrill

I've got two users who work between the main site and a remote office. They
want to use their laptops to communicate with main office through remote
desktop when they are at the remote office. the main site uses fixed Ip
addreses, the remote one has single phone point with home type broadband (no
fixed Ip). So - if I setup two different ntwork connection icons, how can
they easily swap between the two? (Windows XP sp2)
 
Look at NetSwitcher as a $$$$ solution...

http://www.netswitcher.com/

....or the built-in to XP alternate network solution...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/283676/en-us

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Many thanks - I'm a little surprised you have to buy an add-on to make it
simpler - does Vista improve on this?

Alan
 
I've still not succeeded in getting this to work - the link you provided for
the alternate configuration feature refers toa tab that I don't have - I'm
using XP Pro SP2, but if if open Network Connections, select the connection,
then TCP/IP and properties- I have only one General tab -if I click on
Advanced I get IP settings/DNS/Wins/Options tabs, but nothing labelled
'alternate configuration'. Any cluesas to whre I can find this?
 
Ok -you may ignore this. I now see you have to set the network settings to
'obtain a network address automatically' first, and then the 'alternate
configuration' tab appears with fields for all the fixed Ip settings. It now
works!
 
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