On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Luke Sheldrick <luke+fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > I use fedora 8 on a couple of my remote servers, desktops and my laptop, > and all are absolutely fine. > > Tonight I set out to build a new NAS server, and again used FC8, this time > however I install x. > > The problem now is, the box is unreachable until I log in at the terminal, > I assume this is something to do the the NM Applet needs to load? > > Is there a way to get around this? > There was a thread a few weeks ago about why fedora makes a terrible server. People came in on both sides of the issue. Bottom line Fedora is a moving target. You probably know this already . There was a thread called "ssh only after login" mentioned by other responder, that sounds like what you want. Personally I use FreeNAS for storage. If you don't get F8 going the way you want it and time is of the essence, check it out. www.freenas.org Max