A client tried to connect to Servoy Server over a wireless network in a hotel room, and could not connect. With the same laptop, back in the office, everything worked fine.
My working theory is that by using the shortcut on the desktop, her client was somehow expecting to be coming from point A (home office) while looking for point B (the server). I’ve never heard anything to support this, though.
Aside from the obvious possibility that she wasn’t properly connected to the internet in the first place, can anyone offer any input, either to support my shot-in-the-dark theory or to (hopefully) present a better one?
Also my HP - Compaq nx7000 laptop cannot connect with Servoy client via WIFI… it simply hangs and loses the connection. The problem is the wireless driver, the solution is to go by wire or skip the internal wifi adaptor and plug into the laptop a different WIFI card - they all worked . It is a driver problem, not a Servoy problem (wifi problems were also reported by other users with the same family of laptops in the hp forum where the only suggestion was: use the original windows XP drivers and a fixed IP). I tried lot of different driver combinations, but always with the same behavior.
Does your costumer’s PC works on WIFI when is in his own office?
I was in a hotel in Miami last weekend, and tried to log into the solution to check a reported error. When I went to the server web page and launched the client, the client software came up, but didn’t bring up the solution.
Again, this is just weird. It’s a bit hard to test, since I don’t spend that much time in hotel rooms connecting to Servoy.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this? Is it possible, for instance, that hotel-type networks may routinely block essential ports, domains, or whatnot? I’m grasping at straws here.
I wouldn’t be surprised that hotels blocked port 1099, which, as you may know, Servoy needs to establish the connection with the server
So no problem using 80 (standard http)
no problem connecting tomcat on 8080 ( standard http)
problem connecting RMI (1099). In their firewall that port needs to be open (and probably isn’t) . So what I do when the problem arises is connect through GPRS (EDGE) or UMTS no problem passing firewalls