VPN network
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Initial connect
VPN networks usually don't transmit networks broadcasts. Therefore PowerFolder needs to get manually connected once. After the first manual connect PowerFolder reminds the IP of the remote computers and tries to automatically (re-)connect later.
Make sure all computers, which should be reconnected, are contained in the friendlist.
Related problems
If Linux machines don't get automatically found on LAN Add an entry for "localhost" to your etc/hosts. Details about this topic can be found here <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4665037>.

