Re: Can't connect to outside world using openbox
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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