On 2016-01-18, Francis Gerund <ranr...@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
