[hobbit] BBWin Centralization mode and laptops

[Etienne Grignon]

Hello Hilton,

2007/4/17, Quark IT - Hilton Travis <Hilton at quarkit.com.au>:
> Hi All,
>
> Here's a thought for the Centralization server and laptops...
>
> If a laptop is on a LAN (directly or via VPN) then it will successfully
> report to the BBWin client running in Centralization mode, however if it
> is remote (home, on the road, whatever) then it will be unable to see
> the Centralization server, so it will not have its status reported to
> Hobbit.  This is an issue.
>
> Sure, this *could* be addresses by the laptop sending data to both the
> Centralization server and the Hobbit server, but this negates the
> benefits of the Centralization server - lowering Internet bandwidth.
>
> What would be better is to be able to configure the BBWin client on the
> laptop to be able to connect directly to the Hobbit server ONLY if the
> connection to the Centralization server fails.
>
> Thoughts?
>

I'm not sure to understand. Did you turn on centralized mode on BBWin ?
There is no backend in hobbit for the moment, I'm surprised that you
can use this mode.

Could you post your bbwin.cfg file so I can understand better the problem ?

Regards,

-- 
Etienne GRIGNON