Re: connections over networks

[Rolf Schaeuble <mail rschaeuble de>]

> If it's ORBit to ORBit it's quite easy.
> 
> A) without the name server:
> 
> 1) you will have to run your server and genrate the IOR
> 2) on the client machine it is always a good idea to recompile your
> client
> there, for this you will need the idl
> 3) put the IOR in an accesible place (a web server, or the client's local
> directory for example) by the client, but remember that every time you
> start
> the server it's a different IOR, so you have to update it every time. For
> this
> reason it is a good idea to have the server generate it on a web server,
> but
> for testing it is not necessary.
> 4) make sure that you have a file called orbitrc in your /etc directory
> (on
> both the server and the client) and it should contain the following
> lines:
> ORBIIOPUSock=1
> ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> notice that I omitted ORBIIOPIPv6 on purpose because it does not work in
> my
> case.
> 5) make sure that you edit your /etc/hosts file and that both computers
> are
> declared there. Also change the loopback (127.0.0.1) where it reads
> localhost.localdomain to yourhostname. This will break Apache if you have
> it
> installed and you will have to reconfigure Apache later. Also make sure
> that
> your /etc/hosts file contains a reference to your ethX interface and it
> has
> the IP address of the preffered network interface (usually eth0). Yes,
> you
> will have two entries for the same hostname. I dunno if everyone has had
> the
> same experience but I have found that ORBit reads the hostname from the
> lo
> interface in the hosts file. If I'm wrong someone else might want to
> expand on
> this.
> 
> This is how I got it working.

Will this work with Orbit to non-Orbit if I do my work on my side (with
Orbit) and a ORB on the other side wich is accepting requests over
networks?
And how would I do it with the NameServer ?
Do you know any docs or tutorials about CORBA over Network ?

Rolf Schaeuble