I was fooling around with logging in as a different user to test something else. It so happens that I was listening to the radio via the Internet at that time.
Well the radio stopped. Is that to be expected in that logging in as a new user wipes the slate clean, so-to-speak ?
I think that I don’t like that and would like to prevent it. Is there a way ?
That is, keep what ever internet connections,connected.
This multi-user stuff is weird.
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 20:36:02 +0000, hextejas wrote:
> I was fooling around with logging in as a different user to test
> something else. It so happens that I was listening to the radio via the
> Internet at that time.
> Well the radio stopped. Is that to be expected in that logging in as a
> new user wipes the slate clean, so-to-speak ?
>
> I think that I don’t like that and would like to prevent it. Is there a
> way ?
> That is, keep what ever internet connections,connected.
>
> This multi-user stuff is weird.
How are you connected to the 'net? If you use a router, no, your
connection should continue to run even with your system turned off.
If your system is the router to the 'net, then if you use NetworkManager,
yes, you would probably lose your connection to the 'net.
Jim
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How did you log in with the other user?
If it was another KDE session, your sound will stop. It should come back when switching back to your original session - not sure about internet connection, though.
If you are digging the garden with a spade, the spade is working
If you switch to the Fork, the spade stops and the forks starts
If you decide work with the spade and fork at the same time… it might not work so good.
You can logout or you can switch user - there is a difference.
Switching user has more than one user logged in at the same time
So user B can logg in at the same time as user A and you can switch from one to the other.
Yes, it is.
I, btw am not convinced that it is the internet connection (you jumped to that conclusion, but the only thing you told is that the music stopped). Couldn’t it be that the sound is stoppede because the original user is no more “sitting at the throttle” and thus the new user should not be pestered with the music choice of the original user? And should the new user not be able to play his own music as long as (s)he is the “boss”? Sounds not illogical to me.
Your question is rather vaguely worded.
Is the issue that the the new user has no connection to the Internet?
or
Is the issue that the new user can’t immediately hear the same music playing
over the Internet?
If the first issue is the case then it’s due to the way your connection is set
up in Network Manager. You can control this behavior through the use of the
System Connection option and/or Advanced User options. Or, if you prefer not
to have all users use the same connections, you’ll have to set up separate
connections for each user.
If the second isuue is what you’re dealing with then that’s normal, as expected
and completely intentional.
Let me try and replicate it and make notes along the way.
I am connected to the Net via my PC, 192.168.1.211
which is connected to a Wireless router, 192.168.1.111
which is wired to the ATT cable modem, 192.168.1.1
and the outside world.
What I had hoped was that the internet connection would stay connected no matter who the user. In fact I am pretty much the only user.
I am listening to a Boston Classical Station.
So here goes
Leave
Switch User
…get an info message about starting a new session and F keys.
New session starts, with none of my customizations and no internet connection and no music.
And now that I think about it as I step through it, it is working as expected.
It kept session 1 (S1) somewhere, and started S2 as if it were a brand new login, which it was.
When I logged out of S2, S1 started up and Brahms is now playing.
I apologize for leaping to conclusions since this is working properly.
I guess I am just not used to multi-session abilities on my little ole PC.
Thanks
If I read this OK, nope. On my server / workstation there’s concurrent user logins, me, wife, daughter. I create a playlist in Amarok, make it start to play, daugther switches to her desktop to play games (sound off :D), music keeps on playing.
On topic:
There’s a difference between “switching users” - all users are logged in- and “logging in as another user” from the login screen after having logged out -in that case only one user is logged in-. Another thing is making a network connection persistent when performing the latter option. That’s easy: edit the connection and check “System connection”. You’ll have to enter the root password. One of the advantages of this is that the connection is made, no matter whether a user has logged in on the desktop yet. Using this feature for my preferred home connection.
On 2013-09-14 16:36, hextejas wrote:
> Leave
> Switch User
> …get an info message about starting a new session and F keys.
> New session starts, with none of my customizations and no internet
> connection and no music.
If network is configured via network manager, it only applies to that
user unless you tick “make this connection available to other users” or
something like that.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)