Chat Between Computers

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Thereis a Windows build of it (as well as builds for Mac and a few popular flavours of Linux) which runs just fine on Windows 7 (I use it every day), that supports plain text messaging between different computers on the same local network.

It has a user interface very similar to online chat clients, allowing user's to set their status (online, away, offline etc.) and for other users to see this status, and will show a popup in the task bar when new messages arrive.

For the sake of disclosure: I am the packager of a portable version of LAN Messenger, but am in no way affiliated with LAN Messenger itself. I don't and can't earn anything from any download of LAN Messenger or any derivatives of it.

If you were willing to accept an option that uses a central server, Openfire combined with any XMPP / Jabber client you prefer, including Ignite's own Spark client worked very well for us in our office.

Openfire is definitely a more robust option compared to other options, at the expense of additional complexity during the initial setup. But for those that may be managing more than a handful of users and want something that is both powerful and inter-operable, I can't recommend Openfire enough.

Please take a moment to consider if this thread is worth bumping.Recommended PostsBecabeccaPosted December 7, 2018BecabeccaResident 20Share Posted December 7, 2018 I wonder what happens if you save chat history to a new pc and go back to the first without changing settings? Can chat logs be saved on another pc than the one you are currently logged into when the settings were set to the other pc? Maybe my question is silly, I just want to know if its possible for chats to go to another pc

I think that the settings are in the viewer, so when you install the viewer on the new PC, it will have the default settings - and it would not know about the settings you have in another installation of the viewer on a different PC.

like @moirakathleen says, the chat log path can be set to a drive which is accessible from any device which has network permissions to access that drive. Maybe a person with more network experience will reply soon on how to set this up

You can also use a utility such as Windiff to compare two directories on two machines and copy changed/new files to and fro so that each machine ends up with an identical set of files. This will work even when the two machines have different paths to where they store the chat logs.

Question: were you wanting to share the logs between the two computers? Or were you just curious if they were automatically shared between computers? For the latter the answer is no. they would not be shared, since they are stored on two seperate machines not talking with each other by any special means. Toward the former it can be done by various means and is not really hard to set up.

You could use a NAS and have both machines set to store the logs in the same folder on the NAS. Of course the NAS would need to be open to the outside world if both machines were not on the same network.

You could also probably set up a backup system where it backs up the logs every hour to an online location from both machines. thus you could view the log from either machine online at any time as long as they had successfully completed the backup as scheduled.

Not tried it, but perhaps set your chatlog location at a cloud? ... many people have such location now, if storing and connection are OK it might be possible.

If it works you only need to adjust the locations to the same on both machines.

That might work but it might be laggy on save and load for each chat, depending upon the users connection to the cloud storage service. Using a nas is just a little less laggy since everything should be on the same general network.

In our home we have a mix of Mac and Linux computers. My children have a Raspberry Pi in their room and I have a Mac at my desk. Today we chatted with each other through the Terminal running on both computers.

You can chat between two Unix computers (e.g. Linux or Mac) only using the Terminal and netcat command (i.e. the command nc). The netcat command is slightly different on the two OS'es, but I'll write the variation in comments.

What is the difference between 32 bit and 64 bit computers. Is 64 faster? Can it make better resolution pictures?

Can anyone explain it like, in an understandable way? I mean for a low-tech person like me.

I am currently learning node.js and I've just finished the chat using socket.io and express.js which works well. But now I'd like to expand this chat so that two users from differents computers could communicate.

To achieve that you will need to use Cloud Application Platform, like AmazonWebService, or Heroku. You will be able to host your nodeJS application to a server same as you do to develop but it will be online.

The reason I ask is because I am interested in developing a simple C++ server-client chat application intended to work over the internet. When writing this, I believe the client's code will need to have information about the server (IP Address and Port #). I would like to run the server on the Desktop machine and have any machine running the client code to be able to connect to it.

It's because whatismyipaddress.com is just getting your external address. Your router is hiding your internal addresses. If you want to get your internal ip addresses you have to lookup the ip address on your computer (if it's windows go to network and sharing center and click on the "Local Area Connection", then details).

The website is reporting the IP address of the modem. This is the address the rest of the Internet sees you as. As opposed to the 192.168.x.x address you obtained from your router, which is only useful for your internal network (any device connected to the router).

As we don't have enough IP4 IPs to get every device on the net a unique IP, there is something called masquerading. This allows a router to mask the outgoing traffic for your local network under one "real" IP address. This address is given to you when your router connect to the internet.

This of course makes direct networking between 2 machines where one is masked a bit tricky. Your router basically know which of the local machines are the origin of the connection, so it can direct responses back to the right machine.

The ip address of every device seen from outside your home network will be the same. That's one of the jobs of the router (abstracting away which particular device is responsible for which packet) and this concept helps make the internet scalable.

RemotePC allows you to access and manage your distant computers anytime, from any device - given that the computer has an active Internet connection and the RemotePC application installed on it. You can login to your office or home computer from anywhere, manage your files and work on your computer - as though you were sitting right in front of it. You can also invite an associate to access your computer to work on a presentation or help troubleshoot.

Some things need to be kept in mind before connecting to a remote computer :

Both the local computer and the remote computer must be connected to the Internet for remote access.RemotePC application should be running on both local and remote computer.If required, setup the firewall to allow RemotePC.

RemotePC needs a graphical display like a monitor or a dummy HDMI plug/HDMI emulator to connect to the remote device, as it displays the exact copy of the graphics card output sent by the Xorg server. A monitor or an HDMI emulator transfers the information (like a supported resolution) to the graphical display of the device. If there is no graphical display attached, there may be errors with the connection.

No, you cannot remotely access a Linux machine running on Wayland desktop session. On Wayland, currently only outgoing remote control is supported. If you need an incoming remote control, you have to sign in with classic Xorg.

To avoid the remote Linux machine from going offline after a reboot, you need to ensure that the line "WaylandEnable=false" is uncommented (initial '#' is removed) from any of the following files available on your remote Linux machines:

If you try to install the RemotePC Windows application and get the notification 'The App You're Trying To Install Isn't A Microsoft-Verified App', you must change app recommendation settings to disable the notification.

RemotePC supports VMs or cloned machines and treats them like different machines/hosts. The cloned machines have the exact same configuration as the parent machines. To differentiate between the parent and clone machines, the clones have the same name as parent suffixed with 5 random digits.

Click 'View All' to see the list of machines currently accessing the computer. Click to disconnect a connection or click 'Disconnect All' to disconnect all connections to the computer.

All Computers/Groups - Displays the list of all the computers configured to your account.

Online - Displays the list of computers that are ready for remote session.

In Session - Displays the list of computers which are in an active remote session.

Offline - Displays the list of computers that either do not have any active Internet connection or the remote access configuration has been disabled on it.

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