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Old October 21st, 2009, 01:05 PM
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New Network locations being created randomly

Hi All,
I came across a strange issue on one of our full-time telecommuters running OS X 10.5.8. Everytime the user connects to a new network or an existing network a new Network Location is created (it time/date stamps it). I've been researching it for a few hours and have yet to find anyone else who has run into this issue. He's on his way into the office to get his MacBook Pro reimaged, yet in the mean time does anyone know what could cause that? or how to resolve something like that? I'm a newbie when it comes to OS X so i'm not too sure where to start troubleshooting an issue like this.

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Old October 22nd, 2009, 12:00 AM
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Well have the User go to System Preferences->Network, highlight the Airport card in the Network's pane left hand column, and in the right window click on the "Advanced" button. In the drop-down put a check mark in "Remember this network".

Now if the user is using a wired connection have him/her go System Preferences->Network and have them look at the top of the pane use the "location" pull-down and create a custom "Location" for every different network they connect to. Then when the Users goes to that new Network the can go to system Preferences->Network pane and use the "Location" drop-down to select that network and then hit the Apply button at the bottom on the Network pane. This way they can save the different instances for each network and easily select a saved Network configuration for that new Network.

This is how I keep my Home, Work and Roaming profile settings different for each network. This way I always have the correct settings for the three different settings.
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