Re: Using laptop at work (on a domain) and at home (as a local user)
- From: Rick Fears <rfears@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 19 Jan 2006 10:39:51 GMT
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
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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.
Damn - should have thought of that myself, will try it next opportunity -
thanks Steven and Lanwench
>>
>> 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.
>
!Blush!
>> (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.
>
My WiFi router is configured as a DHCP server, and indeed quite happily
provides relevant IP / DNS / Gateway settings to my Win98SE desktop and a
Win2K laptop. It's just my domain connected laptop that I have problems
with in that it seems to refuse to accept the given DNS address - it gets
the IP address OK. I'll try Steve's suggestion and report back in due
course.
Rick
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