Hi Everybody.
I’m new, so please excuse my lack of knowledge. I have a problem getting TOR to connect in Tails. I’m running Windows 10, and have no problems connecting to my company’s wifi with TOR using bridges. However, when I shutdown my system and then start it again in Tails – using the same PC, the same wifi settings, and with TOR set to run exactly the same way I set it to run in Windows, it can’t connect. I’ve checked everything. Twice. The only difference between the two systems (I mean between Windows10 and Tails) is Tails. When Logging in to Tails, I first choose to forward through the welcome screen, and DO NOT enable MAC Spoofing (because I don’t want to cause connection problems), then I choose the option about my ISP filtering my connection. When Tails then starts up, I connect to wifi by entering all the appropriate settings (exactly as I do in Windows). Once this wifi connection is connected, the TOR connection wizard pops-up and guides me through the set-up of TOR. I choose bridges and enter the list of obfs4 bridges that I get from bridges.torproject.org I then choose NO for proxy server because I don’t need a proxy for connection. Then TOR tries to connect, but can’t. The little progress bar doesn’t even start moving. I wait 5 – 10 minutes, and still nothing. I get no error messages. My system clock is updated well and truly by now, so I can’t see what the problem could be. I can open the “Unsafe Browser” without a problem. So my wifi connection is fine. I can surf the net to whatever sites I want for hours with the unsafe browser. So, clearly, the problem is not my wifi connection in Tails. That is working perfectly, as demonstrated by the operation of unsafe browser. It’s just TOR that can’t seem to connect. I’m baffled. The only idea I have is based upon my observation that the only difference in the way I set this up, is the bridges list. Whereas in Windows, I simply tell TOR that I want bridges and it automatically connects via bridges, in TAILS I have to get the list of bridges from torproject myself. Could that be the problem?? I’m entering them as per the manual, I’m not making any mistake there. Could it be that the bridges supplied from torproject are out of date? Whereas when TOR does it without my input (in Windows) it works perfectly. Any suggestions as to where I should go next, would be appreciated. Thanks, - Joe. _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
