Thursday, 10 November 2011

Mac - Changing Network Locations

Hello all,


I have setup two network locations on my Mac - one for the Office, and one for Home.
Both use different DNS settings, and other minor differences...


To change locations in Mac OS X Lion, you simply click on the Apple menu, go down to Location, and select the location you want...


I have a requirement for my location changing to be automated in some way, and I discovered this little tidbit on the web, and thought I'd share it with all!


From the terminal (command-line), or in a bash script, you can use the following command to set the network location:
scselect "Location"


Where "Location" is the name of the network location.


You can wrap this in any logic you need, or even just assign a shortcut key to the bash script to make changing network locations easy!


Have fun!

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