Hi all

I seem to have some access problems in Redhat 9.0 (Shrike). I have created a normal user who belongs to the 'users' group. I have also created a KPPP connection to my ISP. The following steps would help you to diagnose the problem.

1. The user, clicks on the KPPP icon in the KDE menu
2. The authentication dialog opens up
3. The user gives the root password and clicks on 'Ok'.
4. The KPPP dialog opens up.
5. He/she clicks on 'Connect' button in the KPPP dialog.
6. KPPP dials up the ISP, and initiates a connection.
7. The log window says, connected.
8. The user opens up Mozilla / Konqueror.
9. He tries to open a site, say "www.yahoo.com"
10. Mozilla / Konqueror tries for a couple of seconds/minutes and says unable to open page.

The same sequence of events if run from a terminal after 'su' ing, takes place correctly. i.e. the user is able to access the web sites in root mode.

I tried writing a file "/etc/kppp.allow" and adding the users name to this file, but to no avail.

I tried to create a group "dialout" and added the user to this group and then 'chown'ed the "/usr/share/bin/kppp" file to this group, again to no avail.

Your help in this regard will be greatly appreciated.

Can you ping www.yahoo.com ?
What does /sbin/ifconfig display after you've dialed?

i am glad you can access the internet because i cannot becuase i do not have a linux compatable modem but a winmodem, its a right pain

Again, useless. Why did you post this if its not an actual answer to this person question? If you have your own questions, you should ask them in their own threads.

Thanks.

Hi all

Can anyone be more specific about my problem. I have tried to be specific, and I would expect the same in return.

I really appreciate Azmeen's answer. I shall have to try them on my machine and then return with the answers.

But again, trying not to be hasty, I welcome any answer that would throw light on the subject.

Regards...

Without responding to my earlier questions any other suggestions are useless.

Those two steps are the bare minimum that you need to do before we can diagnose your problems further.

Hi

I tried connecting through KPPP dialer. It connected but again was unable to browse or email. Then I noticed something in the terminal. KPPP messages, showing that the device ppp0 was not found and so on. Then I went to the Network Devices control panel, and activated the ppp0 device. It dialed the ISP and now I was able to connect to the internet. But these were done again as a root.

When I connected via the KPPP dialer, I ran the /sbin/ifconfig. It displayed the three connections or devices connected. eth0, lo, and ppp0. All showed their respective IP addresses and domain ip's. Some one else suggested nslookup. I ran that too, but it told me that it was deprecated and I had to run host. I was unable to interpret the results.

I was also unable to ping www.yahoo.com when connected using KPPP dialer.

Hi

Can anybody throw some light here!!!