problems pidgin with ltsp server

[uwe]

thank you david.

If I can't get pidgin to work, I will try ejabberd as you suggested. A
first test at home did work for me - although I could not get the
webadmin working.

I will keep you updated.

rgds,

uwe


Am Sonntag, den 18.01.2009, 10:49 +0100 schrieb David Van Assche:
> Hi Uwe,
>    You are probably best off installing a jabber server on the LTSP
> server and routing all the kids chat sessions through that. Local
> connections tend to drop off after 15-20 concurrent users. I use
> ejabberd for xmpp (jabber) connections, and using a client like
> empathy u can even do video/audio chat across the local network.
> 
> kind Regards,
> David Van Assche
> www.nubae.com
> 
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:26 AM, uwe <uwe.geercken at datamelt.com> wrote:
> > hello everybody,
> >
> > I have one ltsp 5 server at school and 15 kids. I wanted to introduce
> > them to using pidgin via the bonjour protokol for chating with each
> > other.
> >
> > so I was walking around to each kid - one by one - to set there session
> > up. after the 10th computer, the kids where not able to connect anymore.
> > I don't have the exact error message, but if I remember well it reported
> > a socket/port error. also, rebooting the thin clients did not help.
> > those who worked also continued to work properly.
> >
> > I also started pidgin from the terminal to see if there were any further
> > error messages appearing but there weren't.
> >
> > has somebody an idea?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > uwe
> >
> >
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