Jabber on SDF

Jabber is the former name for the Extensible Messaging and Prescence Protocol (XMPP), which is a set of open XML technologies for presence and real-time communication developed by the Jabber open-source community in 1999, formalized by the IETF in 2002-2004, continuously extended through the standards process of the XMPP Standards Foundation, and implemented in a wide variety of software, devices, and Internet services. Jabber service on SDF is run on ejabberd.

Connection Settings for SDF's Jabber Server

Server: jabber.sdf.org
Port: 5222
SSL: enabled

SDF's Jabber server uses a self-signed SSL certificate, so you will see a warning about this. It is safe to accept this certificate.

Jabber Clients

• Available on SDF
• finch (Unix shell)
• Others
• iChat (Mac OS X)
• Pidgin (Unix/Windows)
• Adium (Mac OS X)

Account Registration in SDF's Jabber server

This is not needed if you are going to connect to a Jabber/XMMP server than SDF's Jabber server.

In contrast with other Jabber servers, accounts in SDF's Jabber server are created from the shell with the 'maint' utility.

1. Log in to the password server by running the maint program.
2. Type j to set your Jabber password.
3. Quit from maint utility and wait one minute.

Connecting with Finch from Unix shell

This steps are valid to connect to SDF's Jabber server or any other Jabber/XMMP server like GTalk.

To move around Finch's fields and buttons use the TAB key. You can learn more about using Finch here.

• Press ALT + a and select Accounts
• Select Add button to open New Account dialog box
• Choose XMPP as the protocol
• Fill the appropiate field with you desired Username
• Fill the Domain with: jabber.sdf.org
• Save
• Now you just can select your newly created account from the Accounts list to get connected to SDF's jabber server.

Connecting with Pidgin from Unix/Windows

• Go to Accounts->Manage Accounts.
• Click on Add button.
• Select XMPP as Protocol.
• Fill the appropiate field with your desired Username.
• Fill the Domain field with: jabber.sdf.org
• Click on Save button.

After finishing this steps, Pidgin will try to connect to the jabber server and will ask for your password (the one you have set up with the maint utility), also you will be warned about the self signed certificate, it is safe to accept it.

Add buddies in Finch

1. Select a group in the buddy list.
2. Press F11 to bring out the context menu
3. Select "Add Buddy".

Conferences

You can setup conferences on conferences.jabber.sdf.org

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Looking for Jabber users

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Created on Apr 18th by vosi & ecelis

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