Topic: Port Opening

[Jehu]

I installed port opening on 5.6 so I can get Jabber to work from external locations.
I am still not able to access jabber server after opening port 5222.
Does this port use UDP or TCP ?

Thanks,

Jehu.

[Bill Talcott]

http://jabberapplet.jabberstudio.org/installation.html was the third result in a Google search for "jabber port 5222".

"Clients connect to the server on TCP port 5222."

[Jehu]

Thanks for your answer...but this is an ongoing problem I had with Jabber.
For your information I did search the forum but I guess I will search Google next time.
I have been using this forum for about a year and a half. I have told many poeple about e-smith and many are using it right now.
I would tell them if they had problems the can search the fourm or post the question and someone will reply.  Now in the forum alot of what I see is "Did you search forum"?  If I don't know the answer I just don't post.  Nothing worse than when you are really stuck and you get a reply and it is "Did you search the Forum"
Again thanks for the answer and I am not saying that you do this all the time but it would have been quicker for you to type TCP port 5222 instead of all that google stuff.
Sometimes people are totally new to Linux and when we give those answers it turns them off.  How do we win people over to Linux with this attitude?

Just my two cents,

Jehu.

[Jon Blakely]

Jehu,

You don't need to open port 5222 on the server, the jabber daemon has already opened it.
If you can't access the jabber server externally by telnet on port 5222 then the problem is, as I have already pointed out in reply to your previous questions and in the Jabber How-to, you need to pinhole port 5222 through your DSL/Cable modem/router.

Also if you try to access via a jabber client, jabber.my_domain.whatever needs to be a fully qualified domain name (fqdn) i.e it needs to browsable from the internet.

Jon

[Bill Talcott]

Jehu wrote:
>
> Thanks for your answer...but this is an ongoing problem I had
> with Jabber.
> For your information I did search the forum but I guess I
> will search Google next time.
> I have been using this forum for about a year and a half. I
> have told many poeple about e-smith and many are using it
> right now.
> I would tell them if they had problems the can search the
> fourm or post the question and someone will reply.  Now in
> the forum alot of what I see is "Did you search forum"?  If I
> don't know the answer I just don't post.  Nothing worse than
> when you are really stuck and you get a reply and it is "Did
> you search the Forum"

I agree. I try to mention what I've searched for, and why the results don't help me. "I searched for 'blah', but the only responses were regarding 'foobar', which is not the case in my situation." That usually seems to provide some additional information about my problem that I forgot to mention too. =)

> Again thanks for the answer and I am not saying that you do
> this all the time but it would have been quicker for you to
> type TCP port 5222 instead of all that google stuff.
> Sometimes people are totally new to Linux and when we give
> those answers it turns them off.  How do we win people over
> to Linux with this attitude?

It would have been a whole lot quicker for you to type "jabber port 5222" into Google than posting here and waiting for a reply. =) I try to be helpful by providing the answer right there, but at the same time pointing out that it was very easy for me to find (and I have absolutely no experience with Jabber).

I won't deny that I don't like helping people who make no effort to help themselves. People who expect spoonfed answers often don't even listen when they're given those answers, in my experience. It's not the case here, but when someone can't take a quick look in the FAQ (by definition, an easily accessible listing of the most common problems and their solutions) when it is specifically suggested that they do so, why should I feel that they'll bother to do what I suggest anyway? I feel that guiding someone through a process provides better results all around than just handing them the final answer. Maybe they did try searching, but they had a different query in mind. My query might be basically the same thing, but worded in a way they hadn't thought of. Next time they're looking for something, they might remember this other way of saying it, and get better results. I guess that by saying I searched for it, I'm trying to help (in my own way) also, by showing how easy it is to get the answer, without having to wait for anyone else. That's just the way I am... Ok, done blabbing now. =)

[Jehu]

Thanks for all your answers It seem to be working now.  Played around with so many things I don't know what got it really working.
Jon I tried what you said in your reply before this one an it seems to fix most of my problems thank you very much.  Bill thanks for the info also.
Don't want to start another post but what is pinhole...and how do I do this?
Pinhole through my dsl modem???????

Thanks Guys

Jehu.

P.S. I will do a search in the fourm for pinhole.

[Bill Talcott]

Basically just port forwarding/opening. If you have some device between the SME and the internect connection, it may be blocking that port. The new "smarter" modems seem to have more firewalling features built in, especially DSL routers. If you can access the port locally but not from the internet, it may be that your router/modem/whatever is blocking that port.