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[!AltME] Discussion about AltME

eFishAnt
8-May-2009
[3404x2]
Paul, by bringing them up one at a time, I was able to identify which 
is which.  I see no problem in the ports being used, and my router 
allows 5400 - 5409 in DMZ
but only 5403 works to the outside world.
[unknown: 5]
8-May-2009
[3406]
What about a windows firewall?
Pekr
8-May-2009
[3407]
Steve - I mean - does altme.com check page show you correct and expected 
port numbers? My experience is, that if you are not carefull enough, 
you get your worlds registered to incorrect port numbers ...
[unknown: 5]
8-May-2009
[3408x2]
Do you have another machine you can attempt to connect to those processes 
from?  Maybe use REBOL to do an open tcp://youraltmeserver:port to 
test connectivety
goto START -> RUN -> and type in Eventvwr.msc  and hit enter to see 
what your event logs are recording.
eFishAnt
8-May-2009
[3410]
I verified all 4 earlier, including the file in the servers folders...but 
let me reverify...
[unknown: 5]
8-May-2009
[3411x2]
Also, check your router event logs.  You will probably have to go 
thru the web interface for your router.
If part of this network your using is wireless then there could be 
router features enabled that restrict certain hosts from seeing other 
hosts depending on how your router is configured.
eFishAnt
8-May-2009
[3413]
I will look, you will keep me busy for a while now...;-)  thanks.
[unknown: 5]
8-May-2009
[3414]
hehe
eFishAnt
8-May-2009
[3415]
Eventvwr.msc that relate to AltME that I can tell.
Pekr
8-May-2009
[3416]
Paul - I believe those ports are actually open. You have to really 
be sure your worlds are registered properly. I registered two worlds, 
where the second one was registered mistakenly to the same port number. 
And as I use "pekr" user name with the same password, I was able 
to connect to the first world, even if I asked to connect to the 
second one.


Next thing to be sure about is to use destination NAT on your router/firewall 
- well, simply the same rule as for your 5400 port ....
[unknown: 5]
8-May-2009
[3417]
Could be Pekr, I never ran more than one world at a time.
eFishAnt
8-May-2009
[3418x3]
After 4 worlds are conquered, well only the rest of the universe 
remains for me... "The world is my oyster"  Roxy Music
This is the same Windows2K PC that ran things at Devcon2004...
the ports in the "log" file for each server matches the ports for 
all 4 of these that show up in the http://www.altme.com/check.html
Pekr
8-May-2009
[3421]
ok, good sign. Then I would check if those worlds are reachable from 
the outside = if your firewall/router is properly configured ...
Brock
9-May-2009
[3422x2]
Steve, I had similar problems when I ran multiple worlds.  If starting 
the worlds in the order of the ports continues to not work.  I would 
suggest creating a new world, for each that isn't working making 
sure to not shut the other servers to gaurantee they take the next 
available port.  Then copy the data from the non-functioning world 
to the new world.
Your users will need to access the new world by the new name, and 
will need to click on all of the red groups to get them back to the 
state they are accustomed to.
Pekr
9-May-2009
[3424]
Also - how do you start those world? I created cmd files na start 
it like: altme.com -s "My-world-server" -p 5401
Brock
9-May-2009
[3425]
So obviously, this is a worste case scenario.
Graham
9-May-2009
[3426]
Not Qchat, but synapse chat
eFishAnt
9-May-2009
[3427x4]
Thanks for those ideas.  I am at the router now, trying to configure 
it.
OK, I had 4 worlds, and I was trying the Brock hack, and generated 
a 5th to do a move of one world which would go to 5404, and it shows 
up happy on the  checkpage.


BUT...when I tried a 6th one, I got a crazy message saying that there 
had been too many worlds generated recently, so it wouldn't let me 
make the 6th one. (guess it is supposed to take seven DAYS to create 
a world, and I am trying to take 7 minutes, like the talk I gave 
at DevCon2004 ;-)
But then a server crash happened, and I just learned I can operate 
AltME server in console mode, like the IOS server, so I DON'T have 
to have graphics on the server running!  -c flag, so I can move my 
world to my server farm and be as happy as the PPC assembler command, 
"EIEIO" ("old mac donald had a farm, e i e i o" (those crazy motorola 
engineers))
question, what is the best way to move world data from Windoze to 
Linux over a connection, so permissions don't all have to be set?
Pekr
9-May-2009
[3431]
When you move the world, users and permissions remain, no? I for 
e.g. succesfully re-registered some lost world name, the only user 
account you are setting from scratch is the Master one ...
eFishAnt
9-May-2009
[3432x2]
I mean file permissions, like chmod (read, write execute for files)
If I FTP then by default the change.
Izkata
9-May-2009
[3434x2]
rsync has options "--perms --times --executability --owner --group" 
for preserving all of those
provided the two filesystems support the same types
Robert
14-May-2009
[3436x2]
How can I avoud AltMe popping to the front on OSX?
If a new posting is receied I mean.
Henrik
14-May-2009
[3438]
Robert, check settings. There should be an option to avoid flashing 
on a comment or some such.
Robert
14-May-2009
[3439]
Ah, missed it. I was wondering because I thought something like this 
existed... Thx.
Brock
14-May-2009
[3440x2]
Has anyone built a script to do calendar email notifications from 
the AltME calendar?
One feature that would make this tool that much better.
Graham
15-May-2009
[3442]
Is it just me .. but i'm getting disconnected frequently from this 
world ... nothing to do with Google's woes I hope!
Steeve
15-May-2009
[3443x3]
have the same problem actually
probaly we summoned the devil's spirit in Carl by babling too much
Ooooo Great Carl, please calm down your furry
Maxim
15-May-2009
[3446x2]
no its wolfram alpha succing up all of the internet !!!!   ;-)
that would be... sucking up ... hehe
BrianH
17-May-2009
[3448]
It was very difficult to add a couple people to a private group for 
many UI reasons, the worst of which is that the names weren't sorted.
PeterWood
17-May-2009
[3449]
The names are sorted - just in chronological order of joining.
BrianH
17-May-2009
[3450x2]
Helpful!
Problems with the scroll bar and a lack of scroll wheel support also 
made it difficult.
PeterWood
17-May-2009
[3452x2]
You can at least start looking from the top of the list if you know 
they've been around a long time or the bottom if they're new :-)
It wouldn't hurt if some other the very long list of people who haven't 
logged in for over a year had their accounts deleted.