This section contains answers to more advanced questions about using SunForum. It covers the following topics:
If your problem is related to interoperation with Microsoft NetMeeting, you may find the support section of the Microsoft NetMeeting web pages useful.
If you are connected to the Internet via a firewall (as is usual in most corporate/LAN environments), you can use SunForum to communicate with others located both inside and outside the firewall. To enable full external communication, you need to
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Ensure your workstation has its default gateway set to the internal address of the firewall computer |
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Configure the firewall to allow primary TCP
connections over the following IP ports:
[If this is not possible with your firewall, you will not be able to communicate with computers outside the firewall: consult your firewall vendor about upgrading to a version compatible with NetMeeting and SunForum.] |
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Configure the firewall to map internal IP addresses to external Internet addresses. [This is not possible with all firewalls. If your firewall cannot do this, you will be able to call out from inside the firewall, but you will not be able to receive incoming calls from computers outside the firewall.] |
If you are unsure whether you are connecting to the Internet via a firewall, consult your system administrator or Internet service provider.
SunForum is designed to take advantage of a TrueType font server, if one is installed on your system (or accessible to your system across a local area network). The installation procedure prompts you to specify its location.
With a TrueType font server installed, SunForum will have more fonts in common with Windows systems, resulting in better quality output and improved performance in sharing sessions involving both Windows and UNIX systems.
Compatible font servers are avaliable from Gallium (evaluation versions are also available).
SunForum fully supports conferences hosted on Conference Servers, and has been tested with
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Outreach ConferEase |
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DataBeam neT.120. |
When calling an MCU, specify the address of the MCU as normal. You can also specify the name of the conference to join. If you do not specify a conference name, and SunForum detects that the machine called is currently hosting more than one conference, you will be asked which conference you wish to join. Note that hidden conferences will not be included in the list of available conferences: you must specify the conference name when calling into the computer.
See also the section on password-protected conferences.
When you attempt to join a conference which has been designated as password-protected, SunForum will prompt you to specify the password.
Some T.120 implementations incorrectly advertise conferences as password protected, even when no password has been specified. In this case, just click OK without specifying a password: the conference will be established as normal.
Note that you cannot create a password-protected conference with SunForum.
SunForum changes the underlying TCP/IP transport timeout before deciding that a given address is not valid.
The default value for this on Solaris is about 3 minutes. For ease of use, this is reduced to 60 seconds. This means that any TCP/IP connections will fail to be established if the called system does not respond within the specified timeout.
If you experience problems with color operations (such as text highlights) with Windows applications shared by NetMeeting, try the following remedial steps:
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If your X Server is running with a Static or DirectColor default visual, switch it to run with PseudoColor or GrayScale. See your X Server documentation for information on how to do this. |
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Close any local color-intensive X applications (such as bitmap editors and web browsers), to make more colors available for SunForum. |
To remove SunForum from your computer:
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Close the main SunForum window, if it is running |
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Exit your X server, continue from the command-line |
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If not already logged on as root, become super-user
with the command: su <root password> |
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If you installed SunForum with pkgadd, type: pkgrm SUNWdatr SUNWdat SUNWdatu follow the on-screen prompts |