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Spid's Wed (10/9) Win2K Pro. QoD
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| Here we go....
I am a manager for a small company that has two sites: The main corporate headquarters and a smaller regional site.
I spend the majority of my time at the corporate office and shoot out to the regional site about once a month.
I've got Windows 2000 Professional installed on my laptop system that has an integrated PnP 56K modem configured and operational.
When I'm at the corporate site, I do not want to use the integrated modem. When I'm not at the corporate site, I want to use the modem (that means whether I'm at home or at the regional site).
Help me!! I'm so confused. What should I do?
(Select the best answer)
A. Disable the built-in modem through the registry.
B. Disable the built-in modem through the BIOS.
C. Change the resource settings for the built-in modem.
D. Create a seperate Main Site hardware profile and disable the built-in modem in Device Manager
E. Create a seperate Regional Site hardware profile and disable the built-in modem in Device Manager.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer! | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-10-09, 8:25 am |
| D. Create a seperate Main Site hardware profile and disable the built-in modem in Device Manager
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| Slinky 2002-10-09, 8:56 am |
| D should end your confusion. | |
| JayDot 2002-10-09, 9:00 am |
| Ummmmm
-D- | |
| enforcer 2002-10-09, 9:04 am |
| D right answer for dis one is D | |
| twister166 2002-10-09, 9:43 am |
| The answer is D, but under what scenario do you need to do that? Why does one need to disable modem. I am not knocking the question, just trying to figure out a scerario I would actually do that... Can't think of one, anybody? | |
| namrak 2002-10-09, 10:48 am |
| Picking answer (D).
Food for thought on Twister's question...
Maybe you allow your notebook to be used by friends, acquaintances, family members and having a 'guest profile' which disables the modem will keep them from incurring long distance cost. Obviously, if they know how to enable the modem through device manager then they could enable it, but at least its one more step toward preventative measure. Anyway, I've always wondered about the worthiness of setting up profiles as well. | |
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Originally posted by twister166
The answer is D, but under what scenario do you need to do that? Why does one need to disable modem. I am not knocking the question, just trying to figure out a scerario I would actually do that... Can't think of one, anybody?
Good question
I can't think of a really good scerario either outside of a possible security reason where a person doesn't have external email privledges but could access a phoneline and connect to his personal Internet or hotmail account and send sensitive information from work to that account, or something to that effect. Maybe it would be a corporate policy that internal modems be disabled via a hardware profile at the corporate office for security reasons. Just some thoughts.
But for me, do to time constraints, I just tried to come up with a cheesy question to get across the point of hardware profiles.
I probably should have designed one around enabling or disabling a Token Ring NIC which would give an error upon booting up into the OS if the laptop wasn't connected to the network.
Oh well, my mind isn't working that well today, I've been knee deep in writing year-end reviews for the technicians I manage the efforts of, and let me tell you, it's a painful process.....so much administrative paperwork, it's like writting a damn book. | |
| tweetgirl 2002-10-09, 11:34 am |
| D for me. Another solution would be to buy another laptop! You could then use one for the Mainsite and one away from the site. But then I guess you would have to label them! hehehe | |
| NetChild1985 2002-10-09, 1:14 pm |
| D | |
| Deja-vue 2002-10-10, 12:13 am |
| D for me, Spid.
Just came Home from a 13 Hour Day, that new Business is taking off faster than i thought ....
But here is my input on this...
I have a Laptop for my Business, that i am always taking to the Customers to test Networks and i just plug in the Cat 5 Cable, voila' , i am online.
When Home, the wireless Card takes over, no need to disable the build-in Ethernet card.
So--- wherever i am, always connected... no need for me to disable anything. Perhaps because i run WinXP?
Shed some light into this, please... since i did not have to deal with this.
Also i do understand, there might be a difference between Modems and NIC's.
Thanks in advance, Spid.
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Originally posted by Deja-vue
D for me, Spid.
Just came Home from a 13 Hour Day, that new Business is taking off faster than i thought ....
But here is my input on this...
I have a Laptop for my Business, that i am always taking to the Customers to test Networks and i just plug in the Cat 5 Cable, voila' , i am online.
When Home, the wireless Card takes over, no need to disable the build-in Ethernet card.
So--- wherever i am, always connected... no need for me to disable anything. Perhaps because i run WinXP?
Shed some light into this, please... since i did not have to deal with this.
Also i do understand, there might be a difference between Modems and NIC's.
Thanks in advance, Spid.
Well in your case I'd say your laptop is just acting like a multihomed system.
As I said, a corporate security policy may dictate a device be disabled.
In the case of a Laptop with a Token Ring card, if the Laptop is not connected to the network, and error message usually appears in Windows stating the card is not properly configured, etc.. (well, at least that has been my experience with Token Ring cards and Windows in the past.). So if, let's say a Marketing Rep who works at a compnay with a Token Ring network takes their laptop home quite a bit to do work and they are not attached to the network, we'd want to create two seperate hardware profiles (At Office, At Home) to prevent them from getting the error message upon boot up of their system at home or at a hotel.
Another example I can think of is a laptop with a NIC and a docking station with a NIC. User gets their IP address via DHCP and attaches to the docking station at work. Maybe for simplicity sake, we only want the NIC on the docking station enabled in Windows when at work and disabled when away from work where the on board NIC should be enabled so the user can attached his cable modem and access the corporate network via VPN.
In your case, as long as the devices are configured properly and I assume that the wireless NIC does not generate any type of error message if it is not in contact with the access point and their are no resource conflicts between the two devices, they should be able to co-exist without any issues. There is no need for seperate hardware profiles in your case.
I'll admit, you don't see hardware profiles implemented that often, but they can be useful in some situations. Hope this helps some.
Glad to see the business taking off. Hope you have continued success! | |
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Originally posted by Spid
Here we go....
I am a manager for a small company that has two sites: The main corporate headquarters and a smaller regional site.
I spend the majority of my time at the corporate office and shoot out to the regional site about once a month.
I've got Windows 2000 Professional installed on my laptop system that has an integrated PnP 56K modem configured and operational.
When I'm at the corporate site, I do not want to use the integrated modem. When I'm not at the corporate site, I want to use the modem (that means whether I'm at home or at the regional site).
Help me!! I'm so confused. What should I do?
(Select the best answer)
A. Disable the built-in modem through the registry.
B. Disable the built-in modem through the BIOS.
C. Change the resource settings for the built-in modem.
D. Create a seperate Main Site hardware profile and disable the built-in modem in Device Manager
E. Create a seperate Regional Site hardware profile and disable the built-in modem in Device Manager.
Good luck and see you tomorrow for the answer!
And the answer to my cheesy question is....D
I need to create a seperate Hardware profile and disable the modem in Device Manager for this profile. | |
| twister166 2002-10-10, 7:29 am |
| After a good night of sleep, 3 cups of coffee and bang on the head a few times, I thought I might of come up with one scenario, tell me what you guys think...
The guy has an old laptop with 36Kb internal modem, and at office, the docking has a 56Kb modem, he wants to use the faster modem so he disable the internal modem and use the modem on the docking... what you guys think?
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| denis_baribeau 2002-10-10, 8:20 am |
| Being a laptop he only need to create profile for Dock and Undock and set hardware to appropriate profile .Select profile at Bootup time.
That would be my guess. ?? |
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