[Server-devel] unable to register xo on our xs (school server) Knust team Bonsaso Ghana

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi Siisi and Asabere!

great to have you involved in OLPCCorps!  Notes below on your questions...

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Siisi Nketsiah <siisin at gmail.com> wrote:
> We aren't sure how to connect thct the server to the router and in
> turn connect to the internet
> help is needed

Ok. We're here to help. Tell us more about your School Server ("XS").

 - Is it an XO running as XS? Or is it one of the XS machines that
Reuben prepared?

 - Does it have one or two network cards?

 - Do you have a network switch?

 - Is there a connection to the Internet? What kind? Did the ISP give
you a router and some configuration information?

> - setting up the router correctly that is the correct settings to use
> so we can connect to the server successfully

Is this a "router" that the ISP gave you? What is the model? The ISP
should give you also configuration info...

> - configuring the usb network interface correctly

So it has one "normal" network card, and a USB-ethernet network
dongle? In that case,

 - The "normal" network card is the connection for the internet

 - The usb-ethernet is the connection for the local network. Connect
it to the network switch, and connect the Access Point to the switch.

> - all the necessary commands to use after installation of the school
> server software in the right sequence
>
> - we tried reconfiguring the domain name that worked ... we used the
> ssh-keygen which
> generated an id_rsa.pub file in the root directory

Cool - so you have the domain set.


> we went to the wiki page which has information as to how to install
> and configure
> the server but some of the information we needed was unavailable there and after
> following the instructions there we were still unsuccessful

What info was missing? Tell us more.

cheers,



m
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