From jwc at snf.stanford.edu Mon Sep 21 14:46:07 2009 From: jwc at snf.stanford.edu (James Conway) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:46:07 -0700 Subject: How about a web based remote coral? Message-ID: <4AB7F41F.7050405@snf.stanford.edu> Hola Team Coral: Increasingly I am encountering remote industrial Users whom cannot complete the 'remote coral' due to their companies firewall or other IT impediments between our servers. Often they request Staff members to make reservations for them taking our attention away from more pressing task in need. Might it be useful and practical to have a web based client that Lab Members could work through the HTTP ports using their web browsers to connect and make adjustments and reservations on CORAL? Just an idea .... James Conway -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From shott at stanford.edu Mon Sep 21 14:51:46 2009 From: shott at stanford.edu (John Shott) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:51:46 -0700 Subject: How about a web based remote coral? In-Reply-To: <4AB7F41F.7050405@snf.stanford.edu> References: <4AB7F41F.7050405@snf.stanford.edu> Message-ID: <4AB7F572.4040804@stanford.edu> James: We actually made it easier for even those folks behind firewalls to connect to our servers using remote coral by controlling the ports that are used. (In the old days, we couldn't guarantee what ports our servers used .... but now we can.) If I am not mistaken we've been able to resolve virtually everyone's firewall problems as long as they are willing to open the port range of 50000:50014 when the destination is shine.stanford.edu. I think that I sent out a more detailed announcement about this a month or so ago. Thus far, I've not heard of anyone for whom this will not work so I see no reason to look for an alternative solution. Thanks, John