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MMSequeira · 2012-09-27 13:47:16

This morning I was trying to login to Scratch with my students and we started getting a really weird behavior: the username shown would not be our own username, but the username of someone else in the room. Does anyone have any idea why this happens? Needless to say, all attempts to upload projects to the site failed with a message complaining about a wrong username.

dvd4 · 2012-09-27 13:49:25

did the other person logout ?

RedRocker227 · 2012-09-27 14:15:43

It's because you're connected to the same network

There's not really much you can do, unfortunately

MrFlash67 · 2012-09-27 14:56:55

It's probably getting confused about IP's and proxys, if you have one. Are they all on the same account? Is it a network account or is it local to that computer?

MMSequeira · 2012-09-27 15:04:06

We're all in the same school room, behind NAT, and hence sharing a single IP address. I don't know whether we're using a proxy, but I can check that. Each of us was on a different PC, using his our her own account. Some of us used our own laptops.

After the problem occurred, it was impossible to logout. Or at least nothing seemed to happen when the logout link was pressed.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the answers!

RedRocker227 · 2012-09-27 15:56:10

Yeah, it's because you're all sharing a network. I don't know if it'd work but you could try using an online proxy (though your school may have filtered most proxies), that's the only solution I can come up with

The logout button isn't working because as soon as you log you get logged in again, due to you again being on the same network

You could get them to email you their project and then upload them from a single computer, if it'd be worth the effort

SJRCS_011 · 2012-09-27 16:38:52

RedRocker227 wrote:
It's because you're connected to the same network

There's not really much you can do, unfortunately

shouldn't be, cause login data is stored in cookies on a single computer.
First of all, check to make sure you don't have an internal IP address conflict. This, I believe, could cause the router to send packets to both computers, so both would become logged in.
Another possibility is that your router is not sending packets to the right computers. Ex. you're getting some packets that the other computer's supposed to be getting

RedRocker227 · 2012-09-27 16:50:33

SJRCS_011 wrote:
RedRocker227 wrote:
It's because you're connected to the same network

There's not really much you can do, unfortunately
shouldn't be, cause login data is stored in cookies on a single computer.
First of all, check to make sure you don't have an internal IP address conflict. This, I believe, could cause the router to send packets to both computers, so both would become logged in.
Another possibility is that your router is not sending packets to the right computers. Ex. you're getting some packets that the other computer's supposed to be getting

Well it's something like that, it's been reported before

MMSequeira · 2012-09-28 07:28:24

Thanks for all the answers! I'm getting in touch with our help desk so that they look into the problem. If they find something, I'll report it back here.

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