On 21 Nov 2006, at 10:20, Ian Moroney wrote:
> Hi guys. I've recently installed suse 10.1 on a box which is in a
> datacenter. I have setup vnc on there for remote sessions which
> works quite well.
> The problem i'm having is whether i log in as a user or as root, i
> can't open any web pages from firefox within the vnc session...
> I've looked all over the place for a solution, but i can't find any :(
> Any suggestions?
Yes - check your networking. Is routing correct? (probably, because
you can VNC to the box). Is name resolution setup correctly? From a
shell, try dig www.linux.ie and check that you get back a line with
www.linux.ie. 86400 IN CNAME morrigan.tuatha.org.
Does Firefox have a proxy wrongly set?
Niall
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