On May 22, 2011, at Sunday2:04 AM, Paul1970 wrote:
I have built a website for a client who would like to add a solid easy to use voice chat system to his website.
He is looking for a secure way to complete online counselling sessions. He uses Skype at present but would like a method where
The not downloading anything is tough?
the client doesn’t need to down load any software to chat.
Have you thought about MS Messenger for PC & iChat for Mac and a Jabber Server.
Due to the nature of his work, he needs the system to be add free, secure and extremely easy to use.
If you own your own server it is as secure as you want it. If you own the server you add the user so security starts with a good password. You could add a SSL certificate and be real secure. Mac mini with 4GB RAM and Snow Leopard Server preinstalled is $1,000. I would get an RAM upgrade from macsales.com and run 8GB. RAM is easy to install.
iChat (ie Jabber) Server is built into Snow Leopard Server. As for easy? Not very hard is fair to say. If you just set up a plain server (NOT Advanced) and only use Server Preferences and stay out of Workgroup Manager and Server Admin then yes it would be quite easy with a caveat or two. Easy access means you have a real domain name with a Public IP Address. The easy way is have your CPU hosted somewhere. There are firms that specialize in hosting/hoteling your CPU.
If you decide to try on the cheap with a static IP at clients location I would NOT use the Mail and I would make sure Remote Login is turned off as that is ssh and the popular method bad guys use to attack.
Last warning if Server building is an option. Do your homework. If you want a domain name get it before you buy a Server. Next if you want it to work right without a TON of HEADACHES get the DNS setup before you even unpack the computer from it’s box! You should be able to use the Terminal application to do a nslookup on your name and see it and better yet you should be able to do a dig mydomain-name and see an A record for your name. If you can do a dig and get good results you just need to plug the new Mac in where it will be doing it’s server duties and give it the correct IP address during setup and it will know it’s name. lynda.com has a great Mac OS-X Server suite for 10.5 Leopard Server and 10.6 Snow Leopard Server. lynda is about $25 per month for all the instructional videos you can watch.
I guess I should point out Jabber can be a typed conversation as well as a audio/video. I know for sure that typed conversations can be easily logged so make sure that feature is either enabled or disabled. You can also set frequency of logs (day/week/month). I have never checked for video logs I may have to go look. The logs feature might be the one time I would say get into Server Admin for a newbie. You can set error logs also.
If anyone has any suggestions, that are simple and easy to implement, I would be extremely grateful.
Paul
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