Hardware Profiles on a laptop

[cfryback]

:? Here's the tour:

At the council where I am working, we have the main site that hands out DHCP, and the remote sites have static IP's assigned to the PC's.

One of the people at one of the remote sites is getting a new laptop (crying shame to strip XP Pro for W2K...) but I would like to have a static IP when he logs in at the remote site, and a DHCP IP when he comes back to the main site.

I tried to use a hardware profile for this, but changing the IP preferences in one profile affects the other profile.

On a domain account, is there a way to get it so that he can log in at the remote site with a static IP and at our main site get a DHCP address?

[Micron]

Try this:

1. In Active Directory (on Server) Users and Computers, view the users.
2. Right-click the user you want to assign a static IP address, and then click Properties.
3. On the Dial-in tab, assign a static IP address.

The Windows 2000/3 server used for this procedure must be running in native mode. If your server computer is running in mixed mode, the IP address box in the User Properties dialog box will be disabled.

WARNING: If you change your domain to Native mode, you cannot change it back. You can convert a domain to Native mode when it contains only Windows 2000/3 Server-based domain controllers. If you still have Microsoft Windows NT-based backup domain controllers, you should not switch to Native mode. To change modes, in Active Directory Domains and Trusts, right-click the domain you want to change, and then click Properties. You can now change modes.

HTH

[cfryback]

Sorry, Micron but I don't think that this will work. The reason that I say that is the remote site is on a different subnet.

Sorry didn't mention that before - I was posting after a couple of drinks....