On Sun, 2004-11-14 at 01:34, J.L. Coenders wrote: > Hi, > I have a laptop with FC2 running smoothly on it. Usually, at home and at > university I plugin the networking cable, the ip address gets DHCPed and > everything works fine. > > Recently I also have a working place at a company where I also would like to > connect my laptop to the network. However, the company has a quite a security > system. All internet traffic goes through proxys. However, I do not want to > reconfigure my browser, ftp application, etc. every time. And as a second > thing some strange things happen, involving the automatic syncing of the > clock. To handle the proxy issue setup a second profile in mozilla or firefox. I have one I use for work which requires proxies and one I use when connected to my home network which does not use proxies. When the browser starts it prompts for which profile to use, just select the profile and all the setting are taken care of. To setup a profile you can issue the command firefox -P in a CLI. I have to look that up for mozilla but it may be the same. Not sure what odd things are happening with your clock. Most likely the company firewalls are blocking ntp for the servers configured on your laptop. That should not be a problem unless your laptops hardware clock is not set correctly when you shutdown or it is not keeping reasonable time for some reason. More information would be needed to figure out that problem. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner, British film director
