I read several threads back in 07, but nothing recently so I thought that I would ask.
I’m a small business IT Provider. And I’d love to be able to provide them all with a service like spark+openfire. Can you support multiple clients/hosts/domains on a single machine?
not easily. to support multiple domains you need a way to unify the domains to one LDAP source (e.x. ADAM). This then becomes the source of your users. You would then need to have the ability to segregate the domains so they do not see each other unless allowed.
you can run multiple instances of Openfire on one server. Each server will run in its own JVM and thus you may need a lot of memory on your host. And you need a unique IP address for every instance of Openfire.
If there was only one domain (My domain), you could seperate each client into groups and that would keep the clients somewhat segreated from each other… It would provide the same solution…
I’ve installed it on a test box, and am working through the piece of software… So far that looks like I’m correct, but feedback would be great.
the packet filter does supports groups: “Group - All groups defined on your server. The source (or destination) will match if the sender is a member of the specified group.”