No networking from certain users
My machine is potato + a little woody (for Helix). I have no problems with
dial-up or ethernet networking.
However, I recently tried logging in using a different account, which is in
the dip group. I found
1) My windows laptop could not see my machine, which is running
samba. This is an ethernet connection. I tried rebooting the laptop, to
no effect. Also, directly specifying the full path (\\wheat\v) did not help.
This is particularly odd since I thought samba was being run by the OS, not
the user that happened to be logged in.
2) pon worked to dial up out of the account. However, I had 0 network
connectivity. ping couldn't reach anywhere. fetchmail got
nothing. Despite this, the phone connection remained (if I have the wrong
password in the account I generally get disconnected) and much of the log
activity looked normal (ip-up, ppd, talk all show up in the log).
I did set up the dial-up account and ip-up for the account. Or at least I
tried to!
I'd appreciate any clues about where to look for a solution. Thanks.
Reply to: