On 9 December 2012 17:05, Eero Volotinen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 2012/12/9 José Pablo Méndez Soto <[log in to unmask]>:
> > 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.
> >
> > I tried the same on a CentOS  6.2 built similarly, and no matter if there
> > are users or no users logged in, it always have networking and you can
> SSH
> > into it.
> >
> > Any idea about this difference? Can it be changed in SL so to initiate
> > connections before a GUI log in?
>

Have you check the boxes “Connect Automatically” and “Available to all
users” on the network options / properties?



> On RHEL 6 and clones, network is managed by network-manager by
> default. You need to disable network manager and configure interfaces
> on traditional way.
>

I don't think so. I have some SL PCs with NetworkManager, and I can reboot
them remotely and remote login (ssh) with no problem.

Regards,
-Tito.