Enable iChat Server S2S

December 2, 2005 - 6:31pm

It would appear that someone in Apple’s server development team thought it was a bad idea to have the included Jabber server able to talk to other Jabber servers on the internet.

That person misses the point of the technology. At the very least it should have been off with a checkbox to turn it on or something. Anyhow, it’s very easy to turn back on. Like most things in Server that have been left out, all you do is edit a configuration file.

Open up /etc/jabberd/jabberd.xml and find the stanza that starts with <service id="dnsrv"> and remove the XML comment markers from around it. Do the same with the stanza that starts <service id="s2s"> then restart the Jabber service.

Voila, she works now.

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Adam Knight is one of the founders of Mac Geekery and is a geek at heart. Programmer by day, hacker by night, his daily life revolves around the Macintosh platform, which he has been a user and programmer for since the early days of System 7 when his LCII replaced his Apple //c.

In-between tech jobs, he’s managed to learn the basics of any web hacker: PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux, *BSD, and the intricacies of ./configure —prefix=~/bombshelter/. Today, codepoet is concentrating on blogging again, writing some software for the Mac by himself (including Notae) and for his company (such as Photonic) and has a few other toys coming out soon.

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December 2, 2005 - 8:27pm

Eridius said

From my understanding, the Jabber server was intended more for intranets and the like, where you want to have a centralized server everybody in your group (or company) can use securely. Communicating with other Jabber servers kind of goes against this. So I’m really not at all surprised that it’s disabled by default without a GUI means to turn it back on.

December 3, 2005 - 12:30am

Adam Knight said

I .. yeah, I said that. Well, not here, over there but .. yeah. Bad design decision.
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March 5, 2006 - 6:59pm

geo said

Hi, did you get the server to server working with bytestreams between two sites?

I’m interested in allowing bunches of users on their own (firewalled) iChat servers to AV conference with each other.

Do you know if enabling s2s and setting up a proxy65 DNS entry on each server will allow me to do this?

thanks for a great site!

George

March 5, 2006 - 7:04pm

Adam Knight said

Just having proxy65 on one of the servers should suffice. Should.

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