(k)ubuntu issues.

[Colin Davidson]

Forgot to title the previous e-mail.

 

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From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Colin
Davidson
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 11:44 AM
To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
Subject: [TLUG]: 

 

Hi Everyone,

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.

First, I want to get remote desktop (to my work windows XP box) working, so
that I can finally and completely bury the Vista 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?

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

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.

Any assistance on any/all of these issues would be very much appreciated.

Thanks, Colin

 

p.s.

 

I accidentally sent this out via my gmail account - where I had not yet
registered. Apologies if this caused any problems.

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