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On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 15:53 +0000, NW wrote: > I use Linux for all my work. My wife has a laptop using Windows XP. She > has picked up a virus, no surprise there then. While this is being > sorted out I have added her as a second user on my laptop which uses > Linux Mint. > > I am the main user on this laptop and I can connect via wifi without > any problems, in fact that is what I am using now. However, when I test > the new user, just set up, I find that I cannot connect to the wifi. I > get some message about not finding the IP address. I have not changed > anything, of course. > > It seems odd to me that I can log on to wifi automatically as me but not > as the new user. Can anyone suggest what I could do to sort this > please? Do I need to give her root privileges? > > Thanks > > Neil > > > In Ubuntu there is a checkbox "Available to All Users" in "edit connection." You get to it by right clicking the network icon (on the panel in Gnome). Assuming Mint is the same, that needs to be checked (as root) to allow other users to use the connection (applies to ethernet too). Phil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq