Thanks for your notes. On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <srid...@laptop.org.au> wrote: > 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.
Significant programming investment there... >>> 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. But you have some economies of scale :-) do once per school vs do it on every machine in the school. The school XS can be shipped preconfigured, sidestepping the "local configuration" barrier. Thanks for those answers, they clarify a few things for me. I'm with you on the "show an XS icon in the network neighbourhood" part, but I don't see the "configure XMPP server on _every_ XO" as a good tradeoff, if I can prep an XS once (maybe in a central location). It's relatively easy to prep an XS + switch + APs + cat 5 cabling, label all the RJ-45 connectors, and ship it all in a big box. The hardest part is guessing the cat 5 lengths right ;-) -- much better to ship a crimping tool, cable, RJ-45s. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
