[OT] Re: LAPTOPS AND TWO DIFFERENT WORKPLACES (OT)

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

youto_22554@yahoo.com writes:
>   The system administrator at work is a subcontract
> employee.  He is also the administrator at his
> company.  The company that I work for also has
> employe's from his company working here and they
> travel back and forth between companies and use their
> M$ laptops at both sites.  Here is the problem.. both
> sites use M$ and my company  has the DHCP set and the
> other company doesn't, so when these people go to
> their company they have to go and set the nic card up.
>   He asked me if I knew of a way to do this and I have
> searched the web and came up dry... I think that a lot
> of the people that are on this list are also very
> knowledgable about M$ also.  Is there a way to do this
> with out setting his company up to use DHCP?
> Thanks,
>   Appreciate all the help that I can pass on.
> Don

Time to start using a new search engine...

Look at http://www.netswitcher.com. I use it for two static addresses,
but the docs mention DHCP so I assume it'll work with the scenario you
describe.

Gary