On 2016-01-20, Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 18:29:57 +0000 (UTC) > Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > 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
