On 14 April 2012 01:37, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:28 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan > <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote: >> appliance runs nothing more than ejabberd. There's no moodle, dhcp, >> dns or other services. > > How does the appliance get a domain name?
IP addresses will suffice to begin with. Ideally, I think we'd want to have the servers be auto-detected on the network and available to select by the XO. Ideas to implement this include making them show in the Neighbourhood View and a selector in the Network CP applet. >> Then the children just set a collaboration server to connect to in the >> Network CP applet. They use the address of the appliance for their >> classroom. This achieves a segregation effect in a simple way. > > How do kids know what domain name to put in there? Isn't it a complex > and error-prone step? Typing an IP address into the client is far less complicated than setting up and maintaining an XS server. Sridhar _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
