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| 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 22:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <qT8ud-3LS-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | (4 earlier) <qSnbY-4FZ-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <qSohI-5As-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <qSoUr-5Pk-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <qT5PI-20h-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <qT6C5-2zD-9@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 2016-01-20, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:29:57 +0000 (UTC) > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Not actually required, just convenient. [...] Can you explain how the connection is brought up, in the absence of the applet? It's not obvious to me how that event is triggered. -- 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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