WOOT! The forms are signed

[LandyMan]

Morning all,

Today is the day ... all procedures and process have been changed, the forms have been signed: I am now officially allowed to use my MBP as my work computer! Goodbye Dell 14" crap!

I need some networking (or possibly Entourage) help though.

At home, I can connect to our Exchange server via entourage, using Exchange's web interface, but I can't use the web interface at the office, only straight exchange connections.

Also, being on iBurst at home, I use the iburst SMTP server for mail, mostly gmail. At the office we obviously have our own SMTP server internally.

Basically I have two options:

1. Try and configure OS X to use "dynamic" name resolution. IE, on the network at home, smtp.local must point to smtp.wbs.co.za, and at the office smtp.local should point to smtp.office.exchange. For the proxy/non-proxy scenario for browsing, I make use of a proxy.pac file to determine the network I am on, and then assign the proxy server accordingly. Is there a similar type of solution for my smtp issue as described above?

2. For the web exchange interface/proper exchange interface, the easiest way there is to create two identities within Entourage. What I need to know/figure out is how to get those two identities to use the same data files

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

[bwana]

Used to be easy in os9 with the location manager - perhaps something like this might be useful to toggle smtp servers - http://homepage.mac.com/locationmanager/

 

[LandyMan]

Hmm, looks promising ... seems to be in the line of NetSwitcher available for MS operating systems

 

[bwana]

I've seen a few hints on macosxhints.com where they switched various settings according to the ssid used in the wireless networks.

 

[LandyMan]

Anyone used .pac files before? Mine used to work like a dream (in WinXP environment), but for some reason it is not working in my OS X environment. Do you guys know if the myIPAddress() function call is valid in a OS X environment?

proxy.pac: If I am at the office, use the office proxy, otherwise connect direct

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.255.255.0"))
return "PROXY 10.0.0.111:8080";
else
return "DIRECT";
}

 

[bwana]

Hmm, looks promising ... seems to be in the line of NetSwitcher available for MS operating systems

Dont know if you still need it but I stumbled across another location manager - http://www.symonds.id.au/marcopolo/