On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 23:50:25 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph C. Sis, JR.) wrote:
>I am trying to "downgrade" my pb520c to Mac OS 7.6.1 and am wondering if
>"Location Manager" is available for it?
Yes, though you might have to download it separately from Apple's Powerbook
downloads section, I don't remember, but location manager is something that
came with the very earliest PowerBooks.
>I was hoping to use it to regulate switching between setups for my external
>modem at home and the network connection at work. Any tips are appreciated.
Once it's set up, it works like a charm, but for an Apple Utility, it's one of
the more annoyingly unintuitive ones...
Set up all your configurations _first_, because Location manager don't DO
'Default', don't forget AppleTalk (which, annoyingly, will reset itself if it
doesn't connect to the network, at least on my 540C).
If you have DAVE to connect at the work location, even if you don't have DAVE
enabled, there's still a 'Shutdown DAVE Sharing' item placed in your shutdown
folder...which means the first time I shut my 540 at home I selected shutdown,
and the remote access Connecting box came up...so the non-running Dave Sharing
could be shut down...:-/
But lordy, as much as a kludge that Location Manager is, I surely wish there
was some sort of Winders equivalent...they're getting tired of me saying "You
know, that'd be real easy if you only had a Mac..." at work...and once I
showed them location manager, they agreed with me.
("What??? You mean you changed your network settings and you DIDN'T have to
restart???" :-)
Bruce Johnson
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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