- Taking Advantage of Custom Settings
- Moving the Dock Around
- Changing the Dock's Size
- Customizing the Dock's Behavior
- Changing the Way the Finder Works
- Changing Your Desktop Picture
- Changing Your Screen Saver
- Changing Your Login Icon
- Changing Your Mac's Language
- Adding Login Items
- Increasing Your Mac's Security
- Adding New Dashboard Widgets
- Making Your Own Widgets
- Creating Custom Network Locations
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Creating Custom Network Locations
Network locations are groups of network settings, each saved with a descriptive name so you can switch all your settings with a single click and get online or on the local network instantly no matter where you happen to be. After you’ve created a location, to use it, all you have to do is choose it from a pop-up menu.
Choose Apple menu, System Preferences.
Click the Network button to see your choices.
Choose Edit Locations from the Location pop-up menu.
Click the Add Location button, give the location a descriptive name, and click Done.
Note: Naming NamesJust to be sure we’re all on the same page here, a descriptive name (see step 4) is something like “Joe’s office Ethernet,” rather than “New Location 4.” It tells you where and under what circumstances the location setting is applicable.
TIP: What’s in a Name?To change the names of your locations, choose Edit Locations from the pop-up menu again.
Choose the network interface you want to set up from the list at the left.
Make the appropriate settings for that network interface (as supplied by your Internet provider or network administrator).
Click Apply to switch to the new location.
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NOTE: A Time and a Place
You can use locations to save settings for different situations as well as different places. For example, if you have both a cable modem and a dial-up account, create a location for each so you can switch to dial-up if the cable connection goes down.
