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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Forgot to title the previous e-mail.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Colin Davidson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, October 16, 2008
11:44 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4@public.gmane.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [TLUG]: </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Hi Everyone,<br>
<br>
A month or two ago I got an Acer Laptop and, just to see what all the fuss was
about, installed kubuntu. I have since had 3 rather serious (to me) problems.<br>
<br>
First, I want to get remote desktop (to my work windows XP box) working, so
that I can finally and completely bury the <st1:place w:st="on">Vista</st1:place>
install. However, I am having trouble getting the MS VPN connection running. As
I understand it, this should be a really simple task using Network Manager.
However, despite install the network-manager-kde, network-manager and
network-manager-gnome packages (the last of which is supposedly required
because of a kde/network manager bug, I have made no progress. I found a
knetworkmanager entry in the kde/internet menu but clicking it causes the
machine to think and then, aparantly, do nothing. There is a network manager
status page available via an icon in the "system tray" (please
substitute whatever the current politically correct term is, if you care), but
all it does is display the wired ethernet adapter status, and the page looks
nothing like the knetworkmanager snapshots that I have seen. I seem to have
reached the end of my "google-fu" at this point. Can anyone suggest
further steps to take?<br>
<br>
Second, I tried to set up the laptop as an ssh server, but installing sshd.
Local connections work fine, but when I try to access the machine from cygwin
on my windows machine, the attempt aborts with a "permission denined"
message. I tried adding an ssh allow file in the PAM (which appears to be
enabled) configuration and put my logon id in that sshd.allow file in the
/etc/sshd directory, but no joy even after a reboot. Any suggestions<br>
<br>
Third, my laptop is now failing to access most web sites when connected at
home. It appears to be a DNS issue - google, slashdot and groklaw are not
accessible but gentoo is, for instance. I tried putting a public DNS in the
resolv.conf, but this appears to be managed by network manager. The network
access is fine at work (where there are local net DNSs). At this point I don't
have any idea how to proceed.<br>
<br>
Any assistance on any/all of these issues would be very much appreciated.<br>
<br>
Thanks, Colin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>p.s.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I accidentally sent this out via my gmail account – where I had not
yet registered. Apologies if this caused any problems.</span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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