I don't see this addressed elsewhere, so here goes....

I have installed Tonido on Ubuntu 9.04 server (64-bit) and can create and connect to my profiles remotely. However, it doesn't appear that multiple users can connect at the same time, which, in my mind, is a serious drawback to being able to host users from the same server.

When I'm logged in with one user account, when attempting to login from another browser (in fact, from another network/location altogether), I get a prompt for the password of the currently-logged in user, instead of getting to pick from the list of profiles.

I would like to know if it's possible to have multiple users connected/logged in to the same server simultaneously. If so, how is this accomplished?

Thank you!

Tonido is a personal web application, and is not meant for multiple users to be logged into at the same time. Think of Windows and how you use it. Only one user is logged in at one time. If another user is logged in, then he has to logout before a different user logs in.

If you really want to have two users to use Tonido simultaneously, it is easily accomplished. Simply run two instances of Tonido process in two different ports.
Please let us know if you want to know how to set this up, it is quite simple.

Might want to read email/posts a little closer, and not make references to different operating systems - I clearly referenced Ubuntu in my post.


That's of limited use, considering personal/home routers often only allow for a handful of port-forwards - if you want your family to have access to the same server's drives/data, it won't work so well. Considering accessing data via NFS shares doesn't seem to work so well (at least via Jukebox), this seriously hampers Tonido's usefulness for me. I guess I'll be giving Joomla or Drupal a shot - unfortunate, since Tonido seems to have a lot of potential.

Thank you.

Sorry to hear Tonido doesn't fit your needs. Tonido's design is complex as it is. If we did provide simultaneous user login, it increases code complexity 10x fold.

Regarding Jukebox on NFS shares, we could look at it in-depth. We use Jukebox on Samba shares and don't have any issues.

Well, I haven't given up yet...I might be able to work around things. Even if I can't figure out how to access/share the data on my server the way I'd like to, Tonido may still be useful for my family.

Thanks for the responses and the product.

I don't understand, are we talking about the same... Tonido workspace?
http://www.tonido.com/site_workspace_home.html

I thought this intention was collaborative, no?

Please set me/us straight on this.
THanks.

@twohawks I think we were talking about Tonido Profiles and not Tonido Workspace.
Tonido Workspace is similar to Microsoft Groove and allows P2P group collaboration between multiple people running Tonido on their machines. Definitely Workspace is meant for multiple people.

What we were talking about is if you have a Tonido installation, how many Tonido profiles can be logged in at any given time. That is only one.

Please let me know if something is unclear.

I'm also trying to have more than one Tonido running on the same Ubuntu system.

This is my currently-not-working setup:
two users: A and B
/home/A/tonido/data/profiles contains A's profile
/home/B/tonido/data/profiles contains B's profile
/home/A/tonido/data/configex.xml contain

/home/B/tonido/data/configex.xml contain

both users have r/w to /usr/local/tonido using a common group
/etc/rc.local contain


But only B on port 10002 is running on reboot.
What am I doing wrong?

Tonido uses environment variables to figure out home path. So it is possible when you run as su -, it doesn't work.

Please do the following:



Next for testing:



If that works, then you can try moving the data directory to somewhere else.

Thanks, changing UDP did it!