On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:54:44PM +0100, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 17:24, Tim Waugh wrote: > > > GnomeMeeting is working for me in Fedora Core 2. I don't get that > > message at all, so I'm afraid I'm not really sure what the problem is. > > I just tried this: > > 1. Start GnomeMeeting > 2. Open addressbook > 3. Click find all contacts > > which returns: > > * You have to register to see other registered users > * If you registered and see this message, it means that you are > unreachable from the outside. > * Don't forget to check the FAQ on http://www.gnomemeeting.org > > Well reading over the FAQ I see that NAT and the firewall are the likely > culprits. (Although I think GnomeMeeting should have informed me that I > had failed to register at ils.seconix.com instead of letting me assume I > had.) > > I was hoping to just quickly set this up and play around with it, but > fiddling with the firewall (never a pleasant task) and trying to figure > out how on earth NAT port forwarding would work (I have an ADSL router > which I think doesn't use NAT and connected to that a Wireless base > station which I think does) is just too much bother. What a shame. There are netfilter add-on "match" modules that enable your firewall to work with p2p protocols such as H323/Gnomemeeting. This is your best option. -- Jack Bowling mailto: jbinpg@xxxxxxx
