Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox

From	Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox
Date	2016-01-20 19:40 +0100
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On 2016-01-18, Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is (apparently) solved!
>
> When I originally installed using xfce, it installed network-manager,
> which is what I have been using.  Works fine.  Then I added openbox to
> try using as a stand-alone alternative to xfce.
>
> During the original xfce install, I unchecked the option "All users
> may connect to this network".  That worked fine under xfce.  But,
> under openbox, networking refused to go beyond the lcoal machine.
> Checking the option "All users may connect to this network" causes
> networking to act as expected from openbox (after rebooting).
>
> Perhaps network-manager considers an alternate login (even the same
> actual person, from the same machine) as a different "user".  I never
> would have thought of that.  Thanks to ansgar for the suggestion.
>
> And thanks to all who replied about this!

I suspect the problem is that the network manager applet is running
during your xfce session, but not in the case of openbox. That applet is
required to initiate a "private" network connection.

-- 

Liam

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Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 19:10 +0100
  Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-01-18 20:00 +0100
    Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 21:10 +0100
      Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Francis Gerund <ranrund@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 21:50 +0100
        Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 19:40 +0100
          Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-01-20 20:30 +0100
            Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 22:30 +0100
  Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org> - 2016-01-18 20:50 +0100

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