Thanks Steve, and sorry for the delayed reply
Well, it hasn't occurred now in weeks, but I don't use that machine much..
Eventually maybe I'll find a reproducible situation that makes OneCare
change the location setting.
My first thought was service startup order - if the wireless adapter service
manages to start before OneCare checks the network connection, then maybe it
assumes a public place(?)
I'll keep looking
Thanks much,
Mark
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Mark Salsbery
Microsoft MVP - Visual C++
"StephenB" <sboots@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The setting should be persistent in that OneCare recognizes the DHCP
> information
> provided by the router to set up the network connection and remembers
> this.
> When it doesn't happen vs. when it happens, are the network settings
> otherwise
> the same? IP address, gateway, DNS, etc?
> -steve
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> "Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
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>>Hi all!
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>>I have a PC in my house (running XP SP2) that is connected to my LAN via
>>wireless connection.
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>>Occasionally when this machine is booted, OneCare reverts the Configure
>>Firewall / Location setting to "Public Place", thus not allowing my
>>persistent network connections (like printers) to work until I manually
>>switch the setting to "Home or Work".
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>>Is there a way to make this setting persist? This machine will never need
>>the "Public Place" setting.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Mark
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