Ubuntu
netcfg package

  1. Bug #8980
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 8980

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Erik Bågfors (zindar) wrote :

I bet money that hostname -f tells you localhost.localdomain.

I fixed it by modifying /etc/hosts.

/Erik

(In reply to comment #0)
> If you start a remote desktop session off, it only gives you the connection
> string for localhost.
> i.e: localhost.localdomain:0
>
> This should be either the actuall machine name (i.e. fqdn) or the IP address.
> If this is sent to a 3rd person, they would only be trying to connect to
 themselfs,
> rather than the actual target machine.
>
> My machine is fully up to date and is running a FQDN as resolved from internal
 DNS.