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Rigido

Member

Registered: 2013-03-29

Posts: 8

Some questions from a new user

Hi,
I just switched from Access Connections as it stopped to set system proxy.
NSM looks great but:

1. I can't understand the Profiles organization. I have one PC that I use in many customer sites so I would use just one "Profile Group" and many (more than 6 for sure) profiles. How would you handle that? Do I have to split customers between groups without any "real" reason?

2. I use the systray very much but I can't remember how many times I clicked the "Quit" button on the NSM main window and I had to start NSM again

3. Systray "info" panel is nice looking and useful, but I think that showing not connected connections is useless, maybe I miss something.

4. Can't understand how Proxies are managed. Today almost every browser has a "System Proxy" settings. NSM gui still refers to IE (doesn't show any Firefox or Chrome to me, but I have them both) so I think is misleading.

5. I'm on Win7 (32bit) and I set desktop wallpaper to change every 3 minutes, can't say if it is NSM related, but today I noticed pictures were not changing and I had to set wallpaper settings again (from Windows settings)

Hope to hear from you soon as profiles (and proxies) are going to be populated

Ciao.

Last edited by Rigido (2013-03-29 12:51)

NetSetMan Support

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Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: Some questions from a new user

Hello and welcome to NetSetMan! Actually the answers to most of your questions can be found in the help file but let me sum it up:

1. There are many reasons for the decision that every profile group contains exactly 6 profiles. The reasons are historical, organizational and also design. Let's say you would be able to create 20 profiles within one group. Then the profile=tab concept wouldn't work at all. You'd either have to scroll entlessly or the tabs would become so small that you won't be able to read their caption anymore. Notice that you can deactivate profiles so they won't appear in the compact mode or in the tray menu.
More information: http://www.netsetman.com/index.php?s=he … f_profiles

2. Well, one button has to be there to quit the program. But you can configure the [x]-button in of the window to minimize the program instead of ending it.

3. The tray info only shows the network adapters that you'd like to be included in your profiles. By default those are all network adapters that are found. But you can remove unwanted adapters by using the "Advanced Refresh" dialog.
See: http://www.netsetman.com/index.php?s=help&hf=en#hf_nics

4. Actually I'm not sure if you're looking at the wrong place or if there's a problem with your Firefox installation. When checking the "Browser" option in the profile and opening its dialog it should look like this:

At the top you can select which browser you'd like to configure the settings for. The icons are only shown if the appropriate browser (IE, Firefox, Opera) is installed. (Since Chrome doesn't have its own proxy settings, but instead uses the IE/system configuration, there's no Chrome icon available.)
If no Firefox icon shows up there, there might be some incompatibility issue with your installation. We can have a look at this together to find the reason.

5. In the "System" dialog of NetSetMan you can choose to set a wallpaper image with the profile. If you do so than this image is applied. This feature does not support image groups so the images are changed after a certain amount of time. If you don't want to set a particular image but instead want to keep your image group rotation, please simply don't use this option.

Rigido

Member

Registered: 2013-03-29

Posts: 8

Re: Some questions from a new user

Hi Ilja and thank you for your response even if you could just answer "RTFM"

Let's see if I understood:

1. You thought your program with a tabbed interface. To let users create as many profiles as they want and still have readable tabs you had to add groups, that's it. I don't think I could do anything about it and try to live with it

2. I set that option on the preferences and I use the X button to minimize to tray...but that big and "sexy" button was to easy to click

3. I don't know how, but some days ago I messed around with the "Refresh" panel. Today systray shows just selected entries. I still think that systray should show just active connections AND it would be nice if it could show link speed too.

4. I use Firefox Nightly builds, firefox.exe is in "c:\Program Files\Utility\firefox\" but I think I didn't installed it, I just used a "zip" archive. Google chrome is installed too (in C:\Users\Puccio\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application) and it is in the "Add/Remove programs" panel. It is not a big issue as I need NSM to set proxy system-wide, and it looks like it does it right. I just noticed that NSM didn't like (can't see it on the preferences after activating profile) 172.0.0.0/8 setting on the ignore list. I think some browsers need that syntax

5. Never mind, I can't say if it was my fault messing around with NSM settings.

6. I wrote a PowerShell script to catch DSN domain and log it to a file on startup, but it looks like Windows doesn't refresh DSN domain anymore and now I use NSM to set it. Can I run the PowerShell script from the NSM "Script" section? Or there is any way I can log "Date, Time and profile (or DNS domain)" to a file?

Thank you once again.

NetSetMan Support

Administrator

Registered: 2005-08-06

Posts: 1,878

Re: Some questions from a new user

I just noticed that NSM didn't like (can't see it on the preferences after activating profile) 172.0.0.0/8 setting on the ignore list. I think some browsers need that syntax

Actually it shouldn't matter what text you're entering there - NetSetMan Pro writes it directly to the Firefox settings. I did some tests now, but wasn't able to reproduce the problem. Are you always able to reproduce it?

Can I run the PowerShell script from the NSM "Script" section? Or there is any way I can log "Date, Time and profile (or DNS domain)" to a file?

The Script feature can handle all types of scripts. See this feature as a comfortable text editor for a file that is then executed in the same way it would happen if the user double-clicked it manually.