From: "Jeroen Besse" Received: from mxout4.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.168] verified) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.0.9) with ESMTP id 422448 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:11:25 -0400 Received: from mxin2.mailhop.org ([63.208.196.176]) by mxout4.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GXWNH-000Ckd-Nr for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:11:24 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.238]) by mxin2.mailhop.org with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1GXWNH-000DJP-F3 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:11:23 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s7so114840wxc for ; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:11:22 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d67easkTi7BejRlDZ9J7CSxxkSPACgC0KrjafIe4Uy/Isi+OGvfZWccz9nEFfo6NjnujGJl8GFUwtSu7LA11xJ71r3KiHBxP83cWn9eC2/EINGXXz4if8NJGW5B91lJcaaPaT83h3jhZacV4cpbCbjx7CpCUGo8wd8Uc0Gs7nKw= Received: by 10.90.25.3 with SMTP id 3mr71370agy; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.82.11 with HTTP; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:11:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7234a03c0610102211p2deed14p14f946582211edba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:11:22 +0200 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]OT(?): ThinkVantage? Access Connections In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Mail-Handler: MailHop by DynDNS X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) On 10/11/06, Carl Gehr wrote: > This may be somewhat OT, but I just happened upon this on the > IBM/Lenovo site: > "ThinkVantage? Access Connections" > >http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/think/thinkvantagetech/accessconnections.html > > "Avoid support costs by allowing users to seamlessly switch between > wired and wireless environments, managing security settings, printers, > home page and other location-specific settings automatically." > > It also says: > "Access Connections works with Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 and is > conveniently installed on all new ThinkPad(r) notebooks." > > Anyone seen or tried this? To those of you who understand such > technical details: Any chance of taking advantage of some of this to > port something similar for OS/2? It would surely respond to a number > of the questions that have appeared here. > > Carl I think it's the best software for Windows I've ever seen. It manages network connections, whether dial-up, wired or wireless. You can create profiles which define which connection to use, with which parameters, and other things, like firewall or not, file sharing or not, home page override, etc, etc. I'm afraid it's too much focused on Windows; my guess is that it's not portable. Best regards, Jeroen Besse