[Sugar-devel] GPA XS Report

[Caroline Meeks]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Martin Langhoff
<martin.langhoff at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anurag Goel<agoel23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > We booted several computers with SoaS and changed the
> > network settings from the default (jabber.sugarlabs.org) to the IP
> address
> > on the XS. After doing this, the computers in the computer lab still
> would
>
> That is a workaround to the missing "register" button in SoaS, right?


no, we are still just trying to get the machines in the lab to see the
Jabber Server in the lab via the server setting in the control panel.

I think some of your comments below may still be relevant but I don't
entirely understand.

>
>
> I suspect that part of the problem is that you are using the IP
> address. Sugar will see whatever DNS or IP addr you provide there and
> will try to connect to jabber and create an account as follows:
>
>  - <machine-id>@<jabberservername>
>
> On XO hardware, machine-id is the serialnumber. On other hw, it
> creates a random string on first boot.
>
> The problem with the scheme is that jabber on the XS expects a very
> specific jabber servername for the account: its own name (as given to
> domain_config) prefixed with 'schoolserver.'
>
> If the name doesn't match that format, then it breaks.
>
> The workaround is to use "schoolserver.<mydomain>" in the SoaS control
> panel. A more proper solution is probably to bring back 'registration'
> :-)
>
> hth,
>
>
>
> m
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