[Nottingham] logging on to Gnome

[Michael Leuty]

OK, so today I converted one of the Office PCs to Fedora Core 2. 
Generally successful, I managed to get Samba going to share files with 
the other Win98 machines. A few little problems remain to be ironed 
out.

One is an error message while Gnome is starting. I can't remember the 
exact words, but the gist is that Gnome can't find dhcppc2 on the 
Internet and may not work properly. The options are "Retry" and "Log on 
anyway". There is a helpful hint that adding dhcppc2 to /etc/hosts may 
resolve the problem.

The computer was connected to the ADSL router with DHCP server during 
installation, and seems to have picked up a machine name of dhcppc2, 
this is what appears in the bottom right corner of the GSM log-in 
screen. Adding dhcppc2 to /etc/hosts has not helped.

I seem to remember having a similar problem at home, several years and 
many distributions ago. Unfortunately I can't remember how I solved the 
problem.

Clicking on "Log on anyway" allows me to log on, and the machine can 
then share files with the other PCs and connect to the Internet.

Any suggestions?


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Michael Leuty
Nottingham, UK