Re: getting ORBit examples to work across the network

["Kuang-Chun Cheng" <kcc1967 gmail com>]

On Feb 5, 2008 5:27 PM, Jules Colding <colding 42tools com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:03 +0800, Kuang-Chun Cheng wrote:
> > Hi Amir,
> >
> > Make sure your client can see server by hostname.  Two hosts connected
> > OK by IP address is not enough for ORBit2, AFAIK.
>
> It is:
>
> 2005-07-25  Jules Colding  <colding omesc com>
>
>         * src/orb/orb-core/corba-orb.c: Added new ORB_init option, ORBNetID.

Cool ... I did not know this option before :-)

KC

>         Valid values for a hypothetical local host (FQDN:thor.test.com, IP:10.0.3.2):
>            "local": all attempts to resolve the local host will be done using "localhost"
>            "short": all attempts to resolve the local host will be done using "thor".
>            "fqdn" : all attempts to resolve the local host will be done using "thor.test.com".
>            "ipaddr: all attempts to resolve the local host will be done using "10.0.3.2".
>         The new option will be evaluated after ORBLocalOnly but ORBLocalOnly will always take
>         precedence.
>
> Best regards,
>   jules
>
>
>
>
> > Regards
> > KC
> >
> > On Feb 5, 2008 3:58 PM, Jules Colding <colding 42tools com> wrote:
> > > Hi Amir,
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 18:39 -0800, Amir Afrah wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I have been trying to get the simple example of
> > > > echo-server/echo-client to work on 2 machines on the network but Ive
> > > > had no luck for almost 2 days, I can run both server and client on a
> > > > single machine but when i place the client on a different machine I
> > > > get the following error massage:
> > > >
> > > > ** ERROR **: service raised exception :
> > > > IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0
> > > >
> > > > I have been searching on google and the only issue that is ever
> > > > brought up is that IIOP over IP server sockets in default setting and
> > > > there is 2 methods to change that setting 1) by adding ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> > > > in /etc/orbitrc or ~/.orbitrc 2) by adding --ORBIIOPIPv4=1 to command
> > > > line. I have tried both of these extensively and no luck, any help
> > > > regarding this would be greatly appriciated.
> > >
> > > I just need to give the client a reference to the server. You can do
> > > this by stringifying the server object, put the ior in a text file and
> > > feed this to the client.
> > >
> > > There are more elegant methods (corbaloc) but something like the above
> > > should be relatively easy to set up.
> > >
> > > HTH,
> > >   jules
> > >
> > >
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