Re: [SLE] HowTo create multiple profiles

On Monday 15 May 2006 3:46 pm, Maura Edeweiss Monville wrote:
When I joined FNAL for the first couple of weeks I just used my laptop.
We could configure both
the wire and wireless network cards to work with FNAL network thanks to
the help of SuSE mailing-list experts.
Then I got an office and a desk computer at work.
At home I got the DSL activated and thanks to a AT&T technician I could
configure both my laptop
wire and wireless cards to work with the AT&T network.
This morning I came to the lab with my laptop as my office has been
remodeled and the desktop computer is still disconnected.
As you can imagine I could not connect my laptop to FNAL network either
through the wire or the wireless card.
It is the same problem that arouse with the printers. I configured my
laptop printing system to communicate with CUPS server here at FNAL.
So I can print from my laptop when I'm at the lab. But I can no more
print at home as my local EPSON ink-jet printer configuration has been
overwritten or invalidated by the configuration I had to do for printing
at the lab.
Some time ago someone told me it's possible to have a profile for each
environment where the laptop is operated.
My understanding is that each profile uniquely identifies some
environment specific settings so that different environment
configurations
can be used alternatively.
How can I create and use more profiles ? How can I relate the single
profile with a specific configuration ?
Once you have your laptop running in a specific environment, such as home,
go into YaST2/System/Profile manager. At that point it will prompt you to
enable the profile manager. At this point, you can create a profile, and
name it something like Home. Make sure that it is now the active profile,
then save it. Now, create another profile, say FNAL. Make that the active
profile. Now configure your system for that environment. Then save the
profile. (I personally find it easier to use the scpm command to create new
profiles). I currently have the profiles:
HomeWired - static IP wired
HomeWireless - static IP with encryption
OpenWireless - unsecured Wireless with DHCP for MIT and hotels.
HPWired - Dynamic IP with some HP settings.
Dynamic - Wired dynamic IP. This is for the cases where I might plug into a
wired network, such as a local college or a hotel.

You can have as many as you want. Each can have different network settings,
different printers setup. The only thing that is a bit complicated is the
proxy settings.


One issue that I have is that in some cases, I get a "waiting for mandatory
devices", but it is relatively easy to get around this from KDE.
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