Jabber Instant Messaging at RU¶

Welcome to the Instant Messaging (Jabber/XMPP) at Reykjavik University. This project is being implemented by Joe Foley with support from RU IT.

Please register with username.affiliation as your username if you are not an RU student or staff

RU users: foo@ru.is should register as foo
LHI users: bar@lhi.is should register as bar.lhi
Corporate users: bob@marel.is should register as bob.marel

Registration

Most IM accounts allow you to register when creating an "identity" in their menus. There is commonly a checkbox on the bottom of the dialog for Jabber/XMPP.
Register for an account here: https://jabber.ru.is:9091/plugins/registration/sign-up.jsp*

Once you have registered, put these settings in your account following the client directions in the section below:

server: jabber.ru.is
domain: jabber.ru.is

Once you have installed a client as shown below, you may want to join a conference. This is usually under "Add chat" or "Add a group chat".

Room: <whatever the room name is>
Server: conference.jabber.ru.is

On some clients, this shows up as: conferencename@conference.jabber.ru.is

You also probably want to set "Autojoin"

Client install¶

These client instructions derived from http://tig.csail.mit.edu/wiki/TIG/Jabber(XMPP)InstantMessaging

Adium¶

Download Adium from http://adium.im and install/drag to Applications.
From the Setup Wizard, enter:
- "Account type:" XMPP
- "Username:" _username.affiliation e.g. foley or aki.lhi
  **"Domain:" jabber.ru.is
- "Password:" (your registration password)
Click OK.
If you see "Adium can't verify the identity of jabber", click Accept.

If you add the account later, make sure that you give the username without the @jabber.ru.is
otherwise it will not register correctly.

iChat¶

The following instructions assume that you are using iChat for the first time.
Open the iChat application (on a fresh Mac OS installation it will be in your dock already). At the first screen, click "Continue".
At the Account Setup screen...
- "Account Type:" Jabber Account
- "Account Name:" username@server e.g. foley@jabber.ru.is or aki.lhi@jabber.ru.is
- "Password:" (your registration password)
- "Server Options" -- click the disclosure triangle...
- "Server:" jabber.ru.is
- "Use SSL:" YES
- Click "Continue", then "Done".
  *To add a new contact ("buddy") to your roster ("buddy list"), click on the "+" button in the main iChat window. To join a conference, select "Go to Chat..." from the File menu, and enter the full Jabber ID of the conference room (e.g., watercooler@jabber.ru.is).

Pidgin http://pidgin.im/¶

Get to the Add Account screen (click the Add button, or if there isn't one, go to Accounts/Add-Edit)
Choose "Protocol": XMPP
Split your account into "Screen name" and "Domain." (e.g., joe@ru.is will enter Screen name: joe and Domain: jabber.ru.is)
Enter your password in "Password" and put a check mark next to "Remember password"
Click "Save."
You should now be connected. To add a new contact ("buddy") to your roster, go to Buddies/Add Buddy, and enter their localpart (i.e., joe) under "Screen Name". To join a conference, go to Tools/Room List, and click "Get List" followed by "Find Rooms." Select the room you want, then click "Join."

Spark¶

Spark is very easy to configure. When it starts up for the first time, it will prompt you for the information it requires:
Under "Username", enter your username (not the full Jabber ID).
Under "Password", enter your password.
Under "Server", enter jabber.ru.is
Click "Login".
That's it. To add a new contact to your roster, from the menu select "Contacts" => "Add Contact", and type in the contact's Jabber ID e.g. joe.ru@jabber.ru.is. To join a conference, select the "Conferences" tab, then click on the icon that looks like two small balloons (the ToolTip? reads "Join a Conference Room"). Spark will show you a list of public conferences, and you can bookmark conferences you join frequently. To join a conference, simply double click on it. To start a private conference, select "Actions" => "Start a Conference" and enter the Jabber IDs of the users you wish to invite to the conference. (Under "Room" you can change the name of the conference to something more meaningful; by default it's your name with a random string appended.)

Questions, comments, problems to webmaster@list.ru.is

For administrators¶

How to setup SRV records: http://wiki.xmpp.org/web/SRV_Records

_xmpp-client._tcp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5222 jabber.ru.is.
_xmpp-server._tcp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5269 jabber.ru.is.
_stun._tcp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 3478 jabber.ru.is.
_stun._udp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 3478 jabber.ru.is.
_stuns._tcp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5349 jabber.ru.is.
_turn._tcp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 3478 jabber.ru.is.
_turn._udp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 3478 jabber.ru.is.
_turns._tcp.ru.is. 86400 IN SRV 5 0 5349 jabber.ru.is.