Re: gnome vs vpnclient

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On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 17:15 -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
>     Has anyone else run into the following problem. After installing
> the Cisco vpnclient on a Fedora Core 4 machine running the latest
> kernel, I was able to use 'vpnclient connect' to connect to our
> campus vpn network. However, I find that at that point the gnome
> desktop is unable to open new terminal windows until I exit the
> vpnclient (terminating the vpn session). At that point, all of the
> gnome terminals that I tried to launch appear at once. I have the
> machine set to use dhcp to obtain its ip address. Our network folks
> don't see this problem on their Ubuntu linux boxes. It would appear
> that the gnome desktop isn't properly using the localhost to
> authenicate new windows but is relying instead of the hostname
> obtained by dhcp. I assume this changes when vpn is active and
> is causing the problem. Thanks in advance for any advice on
> how to fix this.
>                 Jack
> 

What does your /etc/hosts file look like?

You may also need to check /etc/nsswitch.conf.

You should also be able to force the network interface name to be a
static value in the network configuration files, assuming that is where
the problem is.



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