Konqueror,Mozilla cannot connect to sites with new user.

bongski55 · 07-18-2003, 03:22 AM

I made a new user using adduser. I can dialup but when I tried to browse I get an "host unknown" error. I use konqueror,mozilla and opera-all with the same result.

I also made the groups for my default user(me) and the new user the same.

What is wrong?

Noryungi · 07-18-2003, 03:59 AM

If PPP is set correctly, and you can dialout as root, this means that you must either activate dial-on-demand (ppp-go -d) or change the permissions on ppp-go (chmod a+x ppp-go) to allow your new user to dial out.

Personally, I think dial-on-demand is the way to go -- maybe other users of this forum will have better suggestions...

bongski55 · 07-18-2003, 07:16 AM

Tried your suggestion,but says 'nosuch file or directory'.Where is this ppp-go?

Noryungi · 07-18-2003, 08:50 AM

ppp-go is (usually) in /etc/ppp/ [if I remember well -- I am not in front of my Slack machine right now]

Try "which ppp-go" as root...

Like I have said, ppp-go is "owned" by root. If you tried entering it as a normal user, it's no surprise the system complained...

bongski55 · 07-19-2003, 06:08 AM

I have slack 9 but I don't have ppp-go. Tried "whereis" or find file from konqueror- all say the file is non existent.

Closest thing I can see is 'ip-up' or 'ip-down' .

Noryungi · 07-19-2003, 07:50 AM

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I have slack 9 but I don't have ppp-go. Tried "whereis" or find file from konqueror- all say the file is non existent.

Do you have a directory named /etc/ppp/???

If not, try running "pppsetup" as root, that should do the trick.

Once pppconfig has been completed, you should have an /etc/ppp directory with a ppp-go script in it.

Or am I just hopelessly confused?

Noryungi · 07-19-2003, 07:53 AM

OR...

Did you try configuring ppp access through the KDE PPP utility? Can't remember its name, I think it is kppp or something like that?

If that is the case, you may have configured it for just one user, in which case you need to configure it through "pppsetup", which creates the configuration for the entire system...