# Changing manager.conf

**URL:** <https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668>\
**Category:** Asterisk Support\
**Created:** [November 6, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668 "2009-11-06T06:00:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/original/2X/4/475d0c889911cfb84ac4881ad6df8b523e3f9105.png) [@system](https://community.asterisk.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 6, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668/1 "2009-11-06T06:00:53Z")

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I installed asterix for the first time today and so far have the gui set up and I’m experimenting but no matter what I do I cannot connect to the gui from another computer, I can only connect to it via the localhost link.

what changes need to be made to the manager.conf file so that this will work ( I only assume that it is the manager.conf file because when you do a make checkconfigure it tells me that if it is set to 127.0.0.1 i can only access it from the localhost link)

Thanks in advance.

_update_  
changed the 127.0.0.1 to the current IP address of the machine. No luck.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/original/2X/4/475d0c889911cfb84ac4881ad6df8b523e3f9105.png) [@system](https://community.asterisk.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668/2 "2009-11-08T22:29:54Z")

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has anyone encountered this problem before?

_update_ changed settings again to reflect the IP of the machine, performed a restart and this has worked.

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**Author:** ![mudcow007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mudcow007](https://community.asterisk.org/u/mudcow007)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 8:58am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668/3 "2009-11-10T08:58:56Z")

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can you not install vnc on the machine?

thats what we do with our Ubuntu machine

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/asterisk/original/2X/4/475d0c889911cfb84ac4881ad6df8b523e3f9105.png) [@system](https://community.asterisk.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2009, 11:48pm UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668/4 "2009-11-10T23:48:59Z")

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managed to get it to work,  
I didnt know that you could get VNC onto a ubuntu machine (I’m only new to linux as well), does that require wine?

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**Author:** ![mudcow007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@mudcow007](https://community.asterisk.org/u/mudcow007)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 10:18am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668/5 "2009-11-11T10:18:39Z")

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the easiest way to manage an ubuntu machine is (if you have gui installed “sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop”)

Preferences \> Remote Desktop \> Allow users to view this desktop  
Allow users to control this desktop

im using 9.10 but this also worked on our feisty fawn install too

then you connect to it via VNC

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**Author:** ![david55](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19adc/32.png) [@david55](https://community.asterisk.org/u/david55)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://community.asterisk.org/t/changing-manager-conf/29668/6 "2009-11-11T10:39:04Z")

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VNC is a Unix program that has been ported to Windows. It is a native Linux application (actually a special X server).