Remote connection

Openfire Openfire Dev
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Hello

i have installed wildfire server on my remote machine and trying to connect from spark(chat client) which is installed on my local machine.

when i entered information i-e username, password and server in spark, it says:

cant connect to server: invalid name or server not reachable.

when i installed spark on remote machine and then try to connect, it is connecting so the problem is

connecting remotely. Can anyone help me here …is there some other setting need to be done for connecting remotely with wildfire?

thanks

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Hi

Could you tell me the spark settings more clearly?

Regards

HeQi

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hello

i just entered username, password and my remote server name in spark. that’'s it. Is there some spark configuraions need to be done?

i have one more issue. for wildfire server we run it using http://127.0.0.1:9090/login.jsp right?

this link is working fine on my remote server and i have all the admin screens.

to connect with wildfire remotely i replaced 127.0.0.1 with the ip address of remote server in above link.

when i typed this link in internet explorer, it says page can not be displayed. So again it can not find the server. any suggestions ?

thanks

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Hi,

do you run a local firewall on the remote server or is it behind one?

Such connection problems usually occur if port 5222 is blocked. And as the web admin console (port 9090) also does not work it looks a lot like a firewall.

LG

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127.0.0.1 is the the loopback, or local, IP address for every machine that uses TCP/IP networking. You need to use your server’‘s hostname or non-loopback IP address for remote communications. If your server is on a Unix box the command ‘‘ifconfig -a’’ should give you your non-loopback IP address. There’‘s a similar command for Windows but I don’‘t know its called. Anyway, once you get that address or a hostname if you’'ve got DNS setup then you can enter that into Spark and you should be able to communicate remotely.

… WkH