<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 1/14/2013 9:30 AM, Chris Green wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:20130114143035.GA19085@chris" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:13:19AM -0500, John Hupp wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> It has probably been done by a mix of Network Manager and direct editing over quite a long time. If this is the cause do you have any idea how to get back to a "completely controlled by Network Manager" situation? In /etc/network/interfaces, comment out all the stanzas except the first one for the loopback adapter. If nothing else has been changed, Network Manager should then take over. But for my purposes I also needed this work-around for one bit of bad behavior by a dnsmasq TFTP server: In /etc/dnsmasq.d/network-manager replace the "bind-interfaces" line with a "bind-dynamic" line. You may not need this. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Thanks, it now works, but there is one gotcha: It only works (as in nm-tool works for a non-root user) if that user has logged in to a live X desktop on the system, if there's no live login then I get an error message. Logging in via a remote desktop (such as xrdp) doesn't work, it seems only to work with a local screen login. </pre> </blockquote> I log in locally and via Linux Terminal Server. I have zero experience with rdp, xrdp, etc. Maybe someone else here can help with that. </body> </html>