[Bugs] #56 MAJO: [XO-LiveCD_081112] Laptop and XO aren't showing on Neighborhood.

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#56: [XO-LiveCD_081112]   Laptop and XO aren't showing on Neighborhood.
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  Reporter:  overbyte  |       Owner:  marcopg              
      Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                  
  Priority:  major     |   Component:  sugar                
Resolution:            |    Keywords:  collaboration, LiveCD
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Changes (by overbyte):

  * keywords:  => collaboration, LiveCD


Comment:

 After helpful suggestion from Morgan Collett, I found that the LiveCD is
 configured with xochat.org as the jabber server and my XO (update.1 build
 708) came configured with update1.jabber.laptop.org as the jabber server.
 (I confirmed that this is a non-existant server -- it won't ping back.)
 I changed the LiveCD setting using the GUI control panel to be the same as
 the XO's ex-factory setting.   Then as required, I clicked on the Restart
 button and Sugar restarted (not rebooted).   But the Neighborhood view
 still didn't show either computer on the other, even after waiting for
 some networking dialog.   Next, on the Toshiba's Neighborhood, I clicked
 to connect to my wireless access point (AP).    It connected, and then the
 icons for the computers appeared on each other's Neighborhood view and
 stayed there, unlike in the past.   This now makes sense to me.   The
 LiveCD laptop and the XO can't connect peer-to-peer because they don't
 both have 802.11s networking.   Instead, they go through the router of my
 LAN to reach each other.   I don't understand why the jabber settings have
 to be identical, but that seemed to do the trick.    However, all is still
 not well.   They don't reliably collaborate on activities.   I've tried
 the 081112 LiveCD iso and and the 080607 LiveCD (build 708 like my XO has)
 but neither performs invitations and collaboration the way it's described
 in Sugar docs; mostly not at all.  Collaboration should "just work" out of
 the box.   Instead, it's very frustrating.

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