Hello,
Im a novice system administrator wanting to tryout your wonderful server
So in order to do that i downloaded the binary file and installed it on a vmware windows 2003 machine.
The installation went well, and i created 2 demo users.
Now what do i do ? how do i install the client to both of my demo clients ?
Is there a newbie guide to how to implement the IM and all to a org.?
Important to say that i am testing it in a virtualized environment.
Would appreciate any help.
Thank you,
Mike
I would be glad to help. First could you provide a little more info on the network of the org?
Are you using AD for authentication?
What is the desktop client OS?
How many perspective users?
Hey,
Thanks for the quick reply.
The server itself is installed on a windows 2003 server.
Clients OS are either windows xp or windows server 2003.
I am not using AD authentication, I iwll use it when i know how to implement this system properly .
I think you may have misunderstood how question about AD authentication. I was trying to find out how the users log in to their computers (local account or AD).
So to answer your questions:
Regardless of client authentication type you need to download Spark (or another Jabber client of choice). If you use AD you can install the client via Group Policy (takes 2 steps), otherwise visit each computer to install.
Before you can configure the clients you must fully configure the server, and add clients to it unless you are using LDAP authentication (highly recommended).
The users can then login in to the server with their chat/LDAP username.
Server security is very granular. I have deployed our server as an employee only intranet server and therefore have disabled all self registration, guest, and server-to-server features. I have enabled gateways for select users (based on LDAP groups). I also groups pushed to the specific clients based on membership (this allows for easy broadcast messaging).
There are distict advantages to configuring the server to use LDAP authentication.
Centralized user/group management
Control over content of profiles of chat clients
Enforced password security
Potential for Single Sign On with chat client (Spark loads/signs in automatically with all my users at login)
Many more
If you want clarification on specific features/settings please let me know.
The server implements the XMPP protocol (aka Jabber) so any jabber client will work. If you want, the Spark client is developed by the same team and integrates nicely. You can either create new accounts on the server itself (go to http://localhost:9090 while on the server to configure it) or most jabber clients have the ability to register new accounts on a server.
Man that is like a serious cliffnotes version of my post. HAHA. Kind of like Hobbit takes overly powerful ring to be destroyed in lava pit from wense it was forged to describe the Trilogy.
currently , users are logging in authenticating to the LOCAL sam…
How can you monitor “Control over content of profiles of chat clients”
(Yes i do realize they autneticating to an LDAP (AD)
If the server is setup to have the accounts local instead of LDAP there is no control over the profiles. The clients can add anything they wish, or nothing at all. That is why I listed profile control as an LDAP advantage. With LDAP the clients can currently only change their avatar.