Remote Coral ...

[John Shott]

Mark:

Let me make sure I understand your question: I think that you are saying 
that Remote Coral works fine for you, but you are surprised that it is 
because your Windows XP machine is set up to block incoming connections 
from javaw ... and, as a result, you think that Remote Coral shouldn't 
work?  Is that correct?

We have worked very hard to make sure that Remote Coral initiates all 
network traffic and does not recevied any unsolicited incoming network 
traffic.  For example, when you want to make a reservation, your 
instance of Remote Coral sends a request to the reservation server of 
the form: "Member wistey would like to make a reservation on equipment 
raith from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 17, 2005".  Then, if 
the reservation is allowed there is a response to that request that is 
returned by the reservation server that says "Reservation successfully 
made.".  In that case, your machine initiates the request and then waits 
for the reply.  All but the most heavily locked down firewalls will 
allow a return response from a request that you initiated.  We've 
installed Remote Coral on about 850 different machines, many of which do 
have firewalls, and only found 3 or 4 machines (mostly at government 
labs ...) that have their firewalls so tightly locked down that it would 
block the "Reservation successfully made." request.

Or did I completely misunderstand the nature of your request and you 
want to know why Remote Coral does not work properly for you?

Talk to you later,

John