how to transfer NM settings between computers

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Brendan Jones
<brendan.jones.it at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 04/01/2011 11:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
>  >
>  >    Does anyone know how to save all the networks settings stored via NM
>  > applet - wired, wifi and vpn.
>  >
>  >    Ideal would be in text file format - which I can transfer to a
>  > different computer and import back into its NM applet. Or copy to the
>  > appropriate place to be read by nm/nm-applet.
>  >
>  >
>  >     Thanks!
>  >
>  >    gene/
>  >
>
> You could investigate
>
> gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/connections > conns.xml
>
> and
>
> gconftool-2 --load conns.xml
>
> However this will *not* work for F15. I'm not sure exactly where they're
> being managed in dconf or otherwise for F15.

This is likely to be a question that many other would also liked to
have asked - and I would like to know how this will work in f15 also.
There will surely be a significant need for a way to achieve this
transfer of connection info in f15.

-- 
mike c