Here is Dan Willliams discussion about using NM to produce a global network connection. I never tried it myself. -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: A belated question about 0.7 Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:55:06 -0400 On Mon, 2008-10-06 at 08:35 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 00:44 -0400, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 09:16 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > I thought that one of the capabilities of NM-0.7.. was to be able to > > > bring up the network globally on the machine instead of having to loin > > > as a user, Did that happen and I missed it. > > > > > > If that can be dons , how? > > > > It happens, it's done through system settings. The system settings > > service has plugins which provide system-level configuration to > > NetworkManager. Each distro has one to convert their (usually > > read-only) file formats (like ifcfg or /etc/network/interfaces) to NM > > Connections, but due to the limitations of some of these legacy formats, > > they might not support all types of connections. > > > > There's the 'keyfile' plugin that supports all types of connections and > > provides both read and writability. On Fedora for the moment we only > > enable the ifcfg-fedora plugin to provide your normal ifcfg files to > > NetworkManager, but we don't enable the keyfile plugin yet since there > > are a few issues to sort out when more than one plugin is enabled. > > > > Dan > > > > > I thought about your answer above and conclude in can be done in F9 but > not yet with the keyfile plugin. There is no /etc/network/interfaces in > F9 so I am not sure just how one does system wide connections at this > time in F9. > Could you clarify? Ah :) /etc/network/interfaces is the Ubuntu/Debian equivalent of ifcfg-* files. The keyfile plugin doesn't use them. The keyfile plugin reads files in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections, which are essentially .ini files. Each section (denoted by [<name>]) is a Setting, and that setting contains key/value pairs. It's really just a flat text file representation of what's in GConf too. At some point soon I'll make sure the NetworkManager configuration spec is fully up-to-date, which is essentially how a keyfile is made. In the mean time, you can edit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf and change 'ifcfg-fedora' to 'keyfile', 'killall -TERM nm-system-settings', then in the connection editor create your connection and make sure to check the "System connection" box before hitting OK. That _should_ ensure that the connection is saved as a system-wide connection and you'll be able to poke around the file too. Let me know if you have any questions. Dan -- ======================================================================= I like your SNOOPY POSTER!! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
