Jonathan, Many thanks for your detailed info. I had known about the network location settings but I didn't see that I could change printers or monitor settings. I have an external monitor hooked to the laptop when in the office and I uses Spaces non-stop and I have a different printer at the office so I was wanting to see if I could set the spaces to match the monitor arrangement at each location and change the printer. I'll check your info. to see if it will allow me to get that detailed, which in days of old we could set more than just network settings.
John On Dec 30, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Jonathan Fletcher wrote: > John, > > You create different Locations in the Network area of System > Preferences. Once you add them there they get added to the Location > menu under the Apple Menu. From Leopard's help files: > >> Adding a network location >> A network location is a group of network settings for your various >> network services (your computer’s Ethernet port, modem port, and >> AirPort Card, for example). >> >> If you often change network settings, you may find switching between >> locations quicker and easier than repeatedly modifying individual >> groups of settings. >> >> For example, you might want to make a location for “home,” where you >> connect to the Internet with a telephone modem, and a location for >> “office,” where you connect to your company network and the Internet >> using Ethernet or AirPort. >> >> To add a network location: >> 1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and click Network. >> 2. Choose Edit Locations from the Location pop-up menu, and then >> click Add (+). >> 3. Enter settings for each network connection service you want to >> use in that location. >> After you create your locations, you can switch all of your network >> settings by choosing a different location from the Location pop-up >> menu. >> > > j. > > > > > > On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:03 AM, <macgroup- > [email protected]> <[email protected] >> wrote: > >> Message: 2 >> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 23:12:33 -0500 >> From: Profile <[email protected]> >> Subject: [MacGroup] Location Settings? >> To: Macintosh topics <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes >> >> >> In times past we had the ability to set "locations" (or whatever it >> was called) where when we changed our location we could change >> networks, the printers would be set correctly, I assume monitor >> differences etc. >> >> Is that feature still (or whatever it is called) still available? >> >> I don't know if that was in Jaguar, Tiger, Panther or where but it >> sure would come in handy for me if anyone can direct me to where >> Apple >> has put it. >> >> Many thanks for your help. >> >> John > > > -- > Jonathan Fletcher > FileMaker 9 Certified Developer > > Project Foreman > NewMedia Construction Co. > [email protected] > > Instigator > The BB&J Network > The "Go-To Guys" for > FileMaker Development in Louisville > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: [email protected] > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will be January 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. Posting address: [email protected] Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
