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[jph]

I have gbridge installed on 2 computers. Laptop and desktop. Both use same gmail account. both WinXP Pro. laptop installation and operation went fine (although I did need to reboot, letting that go).

Desktop installation seemed to go ok, and icon appeared in tray, but right-click it and all options are disabled/grey. I rebooted, started gbridge manually, and got the initial email/password setup. completed that and it worked fine. was able to view desktop from laptop, and could see both machines listed under "My Computers" on both machines.

As a test, i rebooted desktop. Icon came back in tray, but again, grey menu, and machine does not appear in the laptop's list. played with firewall/antivirus settings, etc. no joy. killed gbridge from taskmgr, restarted manually, still not working. tried various things for a half hour, gave up but left it running. a couple hours later, i happened to look at the laptop again, and saw the desktop listed. was able to connect (after one failed vnc connection, worked second try).

played with that a while, then rebooted desktop. guess what.... not working, grey menu. Even "About Gbridge" and "Restart Gbridge" are disabled in the menu. frustrated. help?

[admin]

Thanks for using Gbridge and sorry for the trouble.

Before Gbridge login to the gtalk server, the icon tray is grayed. There are couple of reasons that cause Gbridge stucked in login process:
1. DNS lookup failed. If there is no network connection or has firewall issue, DNS lookup may fail. In this case Gbridge will keep retry (and keep the tray icon in gray status). Some home routers, after run through many p2p traffic (e.g. bt or emule), will enter a problematic state that cause unexpected (and transient) DNS lookup fail. A reboot of the router may solve this problem.

2. Gtalk server is tempararily unreachable. Gbridge need to login to gtalk server (port 5222 or port 80), if the Gtalk server is unreachable, Gbridge has to retry.

From the symptom you descripted, we suspect it may be network related, especially the router issue. Which router model you are using? Are there many p2p traffic? on way to confirm that is try to ping these two hosts under command shell.
ping talkx.l.google.com
ping n1.gbridge.com
if ping failed, that mean it is DNS lookup problem and you may try to reboot your router.

For the VNC first connection fail, we will try to nail it down.

Thanks for the feedback, and sorry for the inconvenience. We will definitely make the interface more clear in the next release.

[admin]

please try to install this installer, hopefully it should fix the gray problem.

http://www.gbridge.com/check_version/gbridge-1.0.0.1111-winxp-setup.exe (http://www.gbridge.com/check_version/gbridge-1.0.0.1111-winxp-setup.exe)

[jph]

Great! So far so good with that update.

Now one other small thing.... on the tray icon menu, you have "Maximize" as the default option. Technically, it is misnamed. "Maximize" would make it full screen (ick!). You mean "Restore"... or in less less technical language, "Show Gbridge".

Sorry so picky, but what the heck... if i noticed it, others will too.

Keep up the great work!

[admin]

Will fix the misname in the next release, thanks!