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I am new to mac os X. &nbsp;I installed the Cisco VPN client for mac on mac os x tiger in order to build a vpn tunnel to the office cisco firewall. &nbsp;The client installed fine but when i run it, i get the following error<br />
&quot;Error 51: IPC socket allocation failed with error ffffffffffffch. This is most likely due to the cisco systems, inc. vpn service not being started. &nbsp;Please start this service and try again.&quot;<br />
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I have no clue how to start a service on a mac. &nbsp;I have struggled for a few hours but cannot find a services button.<br />
Any help would be appreciated
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I am new to mac os X.  I installed the Cisco VPN client for mac on mac os x tiger in order to build a vpn tunnel to the office cisco firewall.  The client installed fine but when i run it, i get the following error
"Error 51: IPC socket allocation failed with error ffffffffffffch. This is most likely due to the cisco systems, inc. vpn service not being started.  Please start this service and try again."

I have no clue how to start a service on a mac.  I have struggled for a few hours but cannot find a services button.
Any help would be appreciated

How to start services in mac osX?

Mac OS X is the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., found on Macintosh computers. OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C providing user interface and application-level services.