When you choose to export a set of team preferences in Eclipse, StarTeam provides all the needed IDs, the original server description, and the host and port information. It does not store things settings such as compression or what kind of encryption to use. The user importing the preferences can turn on compression if he or she works remotely or turn on encryption if outside of the firewall. StarTeam automatically sets the encryption level so there is no loss of information.
Also, during an import, you can choose to change the IP addresses on the fly. If a user exported preferences on one machine using internal IP addresses, the user importing may choose to override those with host names and addresses permeable through the firewall.
During an import, you can choose to change the IP addresses of the associated server configurations on the fly. If a user exported preferences on one machine using internal IP addresses, the user importing may choose to override those with host names and addresses permeable through the firewall.