Konstantin,

I've been struggling with 6.2 and 6.3 on a dell
Optiplex (so it is 32 bit)

I'm sure this is why the networking just doesn't 
work right.

Thank you.  I will check it out

Carl Friedberg
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Konstantin Olchanski
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2012 6:16 PM
To: Jos? Pablo M?ndez Soto
Cc: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: SL 6.3 doesn't no network present until user logs in on GUI.

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 09:53:34AM -0600, Jos? Pablo M?ndez Soto wrote:
> 
> I noticed that my virtual machine with GUI, that I built from the
> SL-63-x86_64-2012-08-02-Install-DVD.iso, won't reply to pings or open SSH
> sessions until a user logs in.
> 

Open "network manager -> edit connections" or run "nm-connection-editor",
open each connection and "tick" the "available to all users" check-box.

This disables the super-clever extra-useful network manager feature
where it enables networking when a user logs in into the console and
helpfully disables the networking when a user logs out from the console.

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