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 <div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Gary C Martin <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">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 (<a href="http://jabber.sl.org" target="_blank">jabber.sl.org</a>) and we wondered > if a local XS would work better. </div>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 <a href="http://jabber.sl.org" target="_blank">jabber.sl.org</a> 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 <div><div></div><div class="h5">_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a>