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You're most welcome. :)
so where do you recommend me setting it at on a college campus with more than 30,000 students and we all have our own username and passphrases to log on
Hello Sean,
It would be best to check with your college IT department to see what they say to use with their network. :)
I know it's been a long time, but I have just come across this excellent topic!
I'm a bit puzzled in the Registry Change method by your table (Option Three, point 6):
What happened about 'Work'?Code:Network Data Location Value -------- ----- Public 0 Home 1 Domain 2
Inspecting my Windows 7 Pro machines which were all set to Work shows that the Category is set to 1.
Should 'Home' in your table be changed to 'Private - either Home or Work'?
Thanks!
Hello John, :)
You're correct. "Private" would be a better description since "1" will change it to Home or Work based on your Private network.
Thanks, Shaun - I note that in some replies on 'other' forums the value 2 is assigned (erroneously) to Work, not Domain.
Can you say what is the meaning of the value "CategoryType", which appears in some profiles, please?
I thought this might distinguish between 'Home' and 'Work' networks, but it seems not.
How can these be distinguished (in the registry)?
Last edited by JohnGray; 01 Mar 2017 at 01:50.
Yeah, "CategoryType" doesn't get changed when switching network locations.
I haven't found anything else to distinguish between Home and Work either for the registry, and why Option 1 is the preferred method to use.
Thanks, Shaun - I was hoping to add something to assign network location to the end of a BATch file (which interchanges static IP addressing with DHCP, or vice versa), but it already looked a bit difficult. If you say it's impossible to distinguish Work network and Home network in the registry then I can stop right now!