On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 07:01 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote: > 1) catch Network state changes, obviously through the NetworkManager. > Base different locations off of default route ip and hardware address, > if wireless maybe essid? > 2) Needs a privileged and unprivileged interface. Some apps like ntpd, > iptables, cups, network filesystems, general services, all need to be > setup by root. Others, gweather, default printer, network servers > (gnome-vfs), mail settings, screensaver timeout, are user specific. > 3) No reason to be a daemon running all the time. We have > NetworkManagerDispatcher already running, why not use that? This also > doesn't need to be super fast or small, allowing higher level languages > to be used. A similar app on the Windows side (for IBM systems anyway) would be IBM Access Connections. It's actually a pretty evil app, but it's intentions are pretty good. Based on your location profile, you can specify your default printer, drive mappings, whether or not to enable File & Print sharing, etc. -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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