Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox
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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