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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa2"></a><span class="inlinemediaobject"><img src="images/draknetprofile-64.png"></span> <span class="application">Mandriva Linux Control
Center</span> profiles enable you to store different configuration
sets for your machine, for example for different locations. This is
especially useful for laptops that need different configurations for home,
the office, the coffee shop, etc. The parameters that can change from one
profile to another are:
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-te3"></a>Network
Configuration</span></dt>
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<p><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-pa17"></a>Activates different
interfaces, with different configurations, for wireless-type
connections, for example.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-te4"></a>Services
Configuration</span></dt>
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<p><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-pa18"></a>Allows you to activate
different services from one profile to another, for example a firewall
at home and no firewall at the office (see <a class="xref" href="drakxservices.html" title="1. Configuring Start-Up Services">Section 1, “Configuring Start-Up
Services”</a>).
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa3"></a>New profiles you
want to create are based on the active one. All modifications are
automatically recorded in the active profile.
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<div class="figure"><a name="drakprofiles-main"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 10.8. The Network
Profiles Interface</b></p>
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<div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/drakprofiles-main.png" align="middle" alt="The Network Profiles Interface"></div>
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-te5"></a><span class="guibutton">Activate</span></span></dt>
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<p><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-pa19"></a>Make the selected
profile active.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-te1"></a><span class="guibutton">Clone</span></span></dt>
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa4"></a>Creates a new
profile based on the settings of the selected one. A dialog pops up
asking for the name of the new profile. Don't forget to activate
that profile after creating it if you want to configure it.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-te2"></a><span class="guibutton">Delete</span></span></dt>
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa5"></a>Deletes the
currently selected profile without further prompts. Please note that
a warning is shown if you try to delete the active profile, because
it cannot be removed while it is in use.
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<b>The Default
Profile. </b>
This is the profile that
is used at boot time. It cannot be deleted.
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<b>Example: Create a New
Profile for Your Dial-Up Home Connection. </b>
You come back
home with your brand new laptop, which your system administrator
configured so you can connect to your corporate network. You now want to
configure the network to access the Internet from home with a dial-up
connection.
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa8"></a>Create a new profile called
“<span class="quote">Home</span>”.
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<li>
<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa9"></a>Switch to it.
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa10"></a>Reconfigure your network so
that the modem, instead of the network card, is used to access the
Internet (see <a class="xref" href="internet-connection.html" title="1. Network and Internet Connection Management">Section 1, “Network and Internet
Connection Management”</a>).
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa11"></a>Connect to the
Internet.
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa12"></a>When back at the office,
switch back to the “<span class="quote">default</span>” profile.
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Time
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<p><a name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-pa16"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BIdNEW-drakprofiles-sect1-it1"></a> It's more convenient to specify a profile at boot time than
to activate it once the system is booted.
<span class="application">drakboot</span> (<a class="xref" href="drakboot.html" title="2. Changing Your Boot-up Configuration">Section 2, “Changing Your Boot-up
Configuration”</a>) allows
you to associate a specific profile to each menu entry of the
bootloader.
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<div class="figure"><a name="drakprofiles-boot"></a><p class="title"><b>Figure 10.9. Associating a
Profile to a Boot Entry</b></p>
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<div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/drakboot-profiles.png" align="middle" alt="Associating a Profile to a Boot Entry"></div>
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<p><a name="BId-drakprofiles-sect1-pa15"></a>Create or modify a
boot entry in <span class="application">drakboot</span>. In the
<span class="guilabel">Advanced</span> options, access the <span class="guilabel">Network
profile</span> pull-down menu and select the profile you want to
associate to it.
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