[Juser] Jabber server and client foo
Jim Arnold
jarnold at knightridder.com
Wed Dec 4 22:59:33 CST 2002
Peter,
I posted the message below to the jadmin list and didn't get any help... :(
Maybe I need to break it up to be more manageable.
--Jim
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>Peter
>
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>Peter Saint-Andre
>Jabber Software Foundation
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>
>On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jim Arnold wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I've been playing with Jabber in hopes of moving our company off of
>> Yahoo IM. Over the past few days I've been playing with the Jabber
>> server installed on a FreeBSD 4.7 stable box behind our firewall. My
>> first impression is that Jabber clients have a *long* way to go. The
>> server was pretty easy to set up. But I do have a few questions....
>>
>> FreeBSD runs jabberd out of a file in rc.d. I changed the HOSTNAME
>> variable in that file to 192.168.0.10, the dummy IP assigned to that
>> box behind our firewall.
>>
>> The note on the jabber.xml file states:
>>
>> "Currently on FreeBSD jabberd is started with the -h option from
>> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh. You'll need to modify this before
>> changing below."
>>
>> OK, that's a little vague.... After playing around I came up with
>> this for that line in jabberd.sh. :
>> su -f -m ${USER} -c "jabberd -B ${HOSTNAME} -c ${PREFIX}/etc/jabber.xml" ;;
>>
>> I then went through the Jabber Admin Guide successfully, setting up a
>> few test accounts from the telnet session on the box and a few via a
>> Jabber client on my OS X box on the network.
>>
>> My first huge glitch came while trying to chat with myself. I fired
>> up Exodus on a windoze box and TVJab on the Mac. Everything I sent to
>> the Mac from the Windows box showed up fine in a chat window.
>> Anything I sent back to the Windows box in response would not appear
>> on the Windows box in Exodus.
>>
>> I tried the same thing at home the night before on the same type of
>> setup. The jabber server was set up and running on a FreeBSD box.
>> That same box was installed with the PSI jabber client. The mac was
>> using JabberFOX or Nitro. This time anything I sent to the FreeBSD
>> jabber client from the mac would not show up. Anything I sent from
>> the FreeBSD box to the mac jabber client(s) would show up perfectly.
>>
>> What is going on? This doesn't exactly boost my confidence.
>>
>> Next I would like to get this working from behind the firewall out to
>> the net. The docs mentions this:
>> <host>internal-jabber-hostname<host><host>external-nat-hostname<host>
>>
>> shouldn't there be a slash (/) in the second set of host
>>parameters like this?
>> <host>internal-jabber-hostname</host><host>external-nat-hostname</host>
>>
>> The box I would run this on does not have a FQDN, just an IP number.
>> Assuming I open the firewall correctly, would I set it up like this:?
>> <host>192.168.0.10</host><host>12.100.23.254</host>
>> Would I have to change anything else in jabber.xml? If I add the
>> above line I get this error:
>>
>> hogan# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/jabberd.sh start
>> 192.168.0.10: not found
>> jabberd hogan# 20021122T22:57:09: [notice] (-internal):
>>initializing server
>>
>> On my firewall I am forwarding packets for 5222 to the 192.168.0.10 box.
>>
>> Thanks for any help or insights you can provide. I'm not find much
>>help online.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jim
>>
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