My laptop (jhbuild) and Classmate (running the same Strawberry version of SoaS) both connected to the jabber server and were stable on the same network as the other machines.
-walter On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: > On 9 Jul 2009, at 00:13, Caroline Meeks wrote: > > Specifically for the GPA > > > > We have 18 computers. Wired to the internet, we don't know the > > details. We are trying to bring in another computer, install the XS > > for it and put it beside the existing computers. > > > > For this summer we would be thrilled if we could get the computer > > lab collaborating in anyway and see three paths that might lead us > > to success. > > > > • Fix Jabber collaboration - We have a mysterious bug (that is also > > being worked on in parallel) that keeps dropping the connection to > > the externally hosted Jabber Server (jabber.sl.org) and we wondered > > if a local XS would work better. > > To me that sounds like the school is (perhaps wisely) blocking ports > they think are unnecessary for security reasons in a school full of > Windows based machines. Are any of your own machines showing stable > connection to jabber.sl.org while on their network? > > If it is port blocking at the school, there are some tricks that allow > you to redirect arbitrary traffic over an open port (likely port 80 > for http if the school is allowing direct internet access), but you'd > need to tweak each Soas install and the remote server running jabber. > And there's still the chance that the school filtering might be more > advanced and be introspecting and filtering packets at a lower level > than just port numbers. > > Regards, > --Gary > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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