BBWin (was:Re: [hobbit] Problems with hanging hobbit page)

[Anna Jonna Armannsdottir]

On fös, 2008-02-01 at 09:20 +0100, Magnus Carlebjörk wrote:
> 
> Another question; I have set up the client configuration files
> identically on 
> both servers (under etc/bbwin). How does that work? How do the
> server / 
> client know which server to get the configuration files from? (it
> works fine, 
> I'm just curious).
> 
> Regards,
> Peter

There ara a few weeks since I was trying to get bbwin 0.10 working 
in decentralized mode. I was using hobbit 4.2.0 with the allinone patch.
I could not get it working in decentralized mode, though it worked in 
local mode. It is essential that I get this working. 
To your question: 

Under the etc directory is a configuration file called BBWin.cfg 
In this file is the hostname or IP number of the server. This file 
also specifies what modules should be called. One of the modules 
that must be specified, is the one responsible for fetching the config 
file from the server. 

This is where it failed for me, because the file never made it to 
etc/bbwin though it was specified in the config file. 

Using bbwincmd (maybe another name) I fetched the 
file and it landed in the bin directory. It seemed that 
the command did not care about what the config file said. 
I tried a few variations (e.g. bbwincmd ../etc/file.cfg, ), 
tried moving the file on the server: Zero, zilch, nada!

The name of the machine as per DNS was different from the name 
returned by the hostname variable in the windows registry, so 
I corrected the registry key to the DNS name. Still it did not work.

Anybody have any clue?  

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