Topic: Jabber

[Jehu]

I need some help with Jabber.  I install it on 5.6 and the install went well.
The only problem is I cannot connect to the Jabber Server.  Tried many clients and cannot connect.  What format should the user name be. harry@mydomain.com or just harry.? I am stuck...I was up until 1:30 am trying to get this to work.  I searched the forum and had no luck.
Please help.

[Jon Blakely]

Jehu,

Are you trying to connect internally from the lan or external from the web.

What have you set the jabber host name to. If kept at "localhost" try changing it your servers hostname.domain-name.

From the local network try telneting into port 5222. you should receive a response that you have sent an illegal xml command. This will tell you that the jabber server is actually running.

Jon

[Chaloner Hale]

Turn off any local firewalls such as zonealarm.

[jehu]

I know the jabber server is running.  When I telnet to 5222 the cursor just flashes.
If I try to type something...nothing types and I then I hit enter and this shows up.

Invalid XML

Connection to host lost.
when I try to connect to the server my client is Exodus and I also tried Rhymbox.
If I put the password in and try to connect it says connecting and then disconnected.  If I don't input the password I get prompt for password and when I put the password that I got in server manager, jabber users then it disconnects.
I am trying to do this locally and remote without any success.
Please help.

Thanks,

Jehu.

[jehu]

Don't use internal firewall.

thanks,

Jehu.

[Jon Blakely]

Jehu,

What have you set the jabber hostname to

Jon

[Jehu]

I set it to local ip 192.1.168.x.x and tried, servername.xxxxx.dyndns.org also tried xxxxx.dyndns.org and also put nothing in the hostname.  This is very frustrating I am almost ready to uninstall it.  Nothing has worked so far.
Hope we can get it working.

Thanks,

Jehu.

[Jon Blakely]

Jehu,

It does work. Here are my suggestions

Turn the server off. Uncheck all the services on theJabber services page and hit the change button.

Log into the console as root and do a

# ps -aux

Check to see that there are no jabber processes running ( sometimes when making multiple changes it seems to spawn a rouge process). If there are any kill them or do a reboot.

Log back into server manager/ Jabber services. Go to create a jabber hostname.
Use the domain name of your server or for only local access use your local ip address. 'localhost' unfortunately for some reason does not work. Save that.

Go back to the services page and tick 'jabber instant messanger server'
click change. This will start the server.

Now try logging in with your jabber client using the host name you created on the host name page, port 5222 and either create a new user or use one from the jabber users page.

Jon

Jon

[Jehu]

I think it time to call it quits.  Tried everything you said.  I keep getting disconnected.  Tries to connect and they says disconnected.
I will try to reinstall it agian.  Wish me luck.

Thanks for all your help,

Jehu.

[Jehu]

Ok it seems to be working now, did not need to reinstall. I found out that it does not seem to work with all jabber clients.  I came across Winjab and it seems to work well but only as local server.
Now for the problems; when I add transports and connect to any of these transport msn, icq, yahoo etc. it breaks the jabber server and I have to restart the jabber server.  It seems that the transport does not seem to work.
I also cannot access the server from my work.  Hostname is my domain name and I know domain name  is working.
Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Jehu.

[Arkman]

Not sure about the other transports, but the last time I looked the MSN Transport was not working. Things may have been fixed by now, but you might want to check the jabber.org site to see what they have to say.

[Jon Blakely]

MSN, Yahoo transports no longer work as they have changed the protocols late nov last year. I have not checked for a while to see if new transports have been written for the new protocols.

As for not working externally, if the server is running then there should be external access, unless you are running a dsl/cable with NAT firewall and port 5222 is not pin-holed through. Try telneting externally to server_ip port 5222.

Jon