Hi Ricardo,
On 21-Jan-02 Ricardo Campos wrote:
I'm trying out RedHat 7.2 and stumbled upon 2 problems relating to ppp, specifically kppp.
- although I can connect using kppp from KDE, there appears to be no
data transfer when I attempt to look at a website. (I suspect that I have to manually add my DNS servers' IP addresses, perhaps I accidentally put in my own IP address as the primary DNS server or something during installation-duh)
If it's a DNS problem, the place to set your DNS servers' IP addresses is /etc/resolv.conf which you can do manually, though I think the RH installation/setup should allow you to do it indirectly.
You can perhaps test whether it really is a DNS problem by trying to access a site for which you know the IP address. For instance,
is equivalent to
so if you enter (a) and it doesn't work, but it does work when you enter (b), then you almost certainly have a DNS problem (as well as anything else you may have ... ). (b) bypasses the DNS lookup, so success does not depend on having correct DNS entries.
On the other hand, if (b) doesn;t work either, then it may have nothing to do with DNS and you should try looking in other directions. One such is whether your ISP requires you to use a proxy server (e.g. mine, via MCC, will refuse non-proxied URL access for all domains outside .man.ac.uk and .mcc.ac.uk).
Both Netscape (under /Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Proxies) and konqueror (under Settings/Configure Konqueror/Proxies) allow you to set up a proxy, but you would have to precisely follow the instructions provided by your ISP as to what you enter here.
- OK, if I do run kppp as someone other than root, it asks for root's
password. How could I set it up so that I don't need to run a connection as root? It doesn't do it in Mandrake.
In my experience with 'kppp' (on a SuSE box) each user can invoke 'kppp' and do their own setup. Root privileges have not been needed. Then each user can run their own 'kppp', again without root privileges. If you're using KDE (and with it 'kppp') with Red Hat then I'd be surprised if it was different from 'kppp' with SuSE.
On the other hand, on my Red Hat machine, the equivalent to kppp is 'rp3' (which may be a GNOME thingy, though I suspect that "rp3" is short for "Red Hat ppp"); and its config program is 'rp3-config'. Once 'rp3' has been configured for any user, then that user can just use it. However, configuring 'rp3' means running 'rp3-config' and this will certainly ask for the root password (and quit if it doesn't get it).
All of which makes me wonder whether you're really using 'kppp': maybe what you're getting is 'rp3'?
Ted.
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