Re: Using laptop at work (on a domain) and at home (as a local user)


"Rick Fears" <rfears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Rick Fears <rfears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> <snip all the stuff in my first post>
>
> Having connected the laptop at home and run ipconfig/all I find that the
> DNS settings are pointing to the domain DNS rather than the ISP DNS.
>
> I'm trying to find fixed IPs for the ISPs DNS servers, once I have those
> ("BTYahoo policy is not to release IPs of DNS servers as these might
> change...") I'll try hard coding these into the wireless network
> settings.

Steven's reply ought to help....although ipconfig /release ..../renew ought
to do the job for you if there's an available DHCP server.
>
> This probably explains why it grinds to a halt whenever an application
> needs a DNS resolution! Now strangely enough once IE has deigned to load

I'd just like to thank you personally for using the word "deigned" in a
newsgroup post. Oh, and also for snipping appropriately.


> (about 3 minutes if I'm lucky) DNS services appear to be available
> because web browsing is not (often) plagued with slowdowns.
>
> This still begs the question of why it is so difficult to configure a
> laptop (portable - can be used at home as well as work, also in a hotel
> with a random hotspot ISP, etc) once it is attached to adomain - surely
> something Microsoft should be investigating?

I have plenty of users with laptops who work all over the place - on the
domain, off the domain. As long as there's a DHCP server, they're OK. Of
course, with WiFi, they need to know the encryption key (if any....) and
even with Ethernet, as I prefer they work at 100/full by default on the LAN,
they sometimes need to select 'autosense'. This is a minor annoyance.




>
> Rick
>


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