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Profiles Management

Sometimes it is necessary to use different sets of AlmostVPN Connections/Drives/Tunnels(THINGS). For example, while you are on customer site connecting back into your Office Network, you might want to get access to your company's intranet server and mount drive from your own office computer. A few days later, when you are on well deserved vacation, you might desire to connect to your home network. AlmostVPN addresses this functionality with Profiles.
You might have noticed already some profile related GUI elements: combo box in the right top corner and check boxes in the tables in AlmostVPN Connections Manager, Drives Manager and Tunnels Manager. As a matter of fact, if you had used Quick Configuration Dialog it had created new profile for you. So, what exactly profile is? Profile is a collection of AlmostVPN THINGS. You can manipulate with content of this collection by clicking on  check boxes next to THING you want in current profile or clicking off .  Also, you can use buttons to do "wholesale" checking/unchecking/toggling. You can define new profile just by typing new name in Profile Selector Combo . You can switch from one profile to another by selecting profile from Profile Selector Combo list


If you want to delete profile or create new profile by copying existing profile you have to use Profiles Manager Dialog. You can open this dialog by clicking button next to Profile Selector Combo.

button will create new EMPTY profile. will create new profile as a copy of currently selected (selected in Profile Manager Dialog) profile. will delete currently selected (selected in Profile Manager Dialog) profile. Also you can rename your profiles just by typing new name in the table. Click when you finished.
You can use check box, to select one profile which you want to be automatically started when you login into your computer.  Once profile been marked as "start at login" it name will appear in bold font in the list of profiles. Only one profile could be marked as "start at login". 
NOTE: AlmostVPN is using LoginHook and LogoutHook to support "start at login" feature.  None of "standard" Mac OS X application is using it, but some of custom applications might.  If you have reasons to believe that some of you applications are using LoginHook or LogoutHook, you can verify it by running following command:
sudo defaults read com.apple.loginwindow
If you get back message which contains "Domain com.apple.loginwindow does not exist", then none of your applications is using LoginHook or LogoutHook.

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