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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > > > > -- > > edubuntu-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
