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Article #387Re: internetting without being logged on
From: stephan beal
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:53
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 11:53
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aliboemboem wrote: > I want to prepare a workstation with Linux of SuSe v7.3 and want to use it > as a dedicated internet station for the public. So I'd like to start > automaticly with for example Mozilla without being prompted with logging > on to the network or station. I've tried to do this by adding mozilla in > the /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup file. The webbrowser will start, but then i > can not type in the URL, the keyboard is not accesible then. And when this > is done can I then print to a printer connected to a windows computer with > a shared printer. i don't have a solution, but a warning: Mozilla (at least all versions i've used) have a nasty bug which you may run into. If you start Mozilla while offline, it cannot resolve domain names after you go online. The problem appears to be that it looks, at startup, to see if you're online. If you aren't then it decides it will never try to resolve domains. The only workaround i know of is to restart mozilla after going online. -- ----- stephan beal Registered Linux User #71917 http://counter.li.org I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1150b2,66993eb3e00d1509 X-Google-Attributes: gid1150b2,public X-Google-Thread: 1041dd,66993eb3e00d1509 X-Google-Attributes: gid1041dd,public X-Google-Thread: f9b51,66993eb3e00d1509 X-Google-Attributes: gidf9b51,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-06-25 04:51:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news-FFM2.ecrc.net!noris.net!not-for-mail From: stephan beal <stephan@wanderinghorse.net> Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,free.linux.suse Subject: Re: internetting without being logged on Followup-To: alt.os.linux.suse Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:53:27 +0200 Lines: 24 Message-ID: <bdc2bo$ck0$1@ork.noris.net> References: <3ef98b4d$0$45388$1b62eedf@news.wanadoo.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: cerberus.einsurance.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ork.noris.net 1056541880 12928 62.128.31.9 (25 Jun 2003 11:51:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@noris.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2