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#1 2009-02-17 02:05:24
Website login and post glitches?
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My students logged in to the Scratch website only to have their account show up on the their computer and on the computer next to it and even another one across the room. Any ideas on why this is happening? They are working on Macs with ethernet, not airport, so there shouldn't be any ip confusion. I'm stumped and so is my IT team.
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The students tried to post comments on each other's games and even though they were properly logged in, the post showed up under a different student's username.
Have there been updates to the website that could cause these issues? When my previous classes did this in the fall, there were none of these problems.
Any help would be most welcome!
Thanks,
Footnotes
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#2 2009-02-17 02:11:04
Re: Website login and post glitches?
I don't know about the login part.
For posting, maybe all the users are on at the same time the network gets confused of who posted? I don't know since I use Scratch at home and not at school.
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#3 2009-02-17 04:28:14
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Re: Website login and post glitches?
Well, that sounds very confusing. I think that cookies are involved with keeping track of which account is logged in. If you had your network set up so that browser cookies were being stored to some shared area, I would think that might account for the symptoms you are seeing. However, this is just a guess on my part - I will research further.
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#4 2009-02-17 08:24:57
Re: Website login and post glitches?
Are you sure you are not sharing the same external IP address? I think it still should not be a problem to share the same IP but it would give us more information. Could you go to the front page and check what is the IP address displayed at the bottom of page?
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#6 2009-02-17 10:13:22
Re: Website login and post glitches?
alexpja wrote:
why do i always have the same ip even when im on my laptop wireless and my ipod touch wireless?
Because probably you're using a router to connect all your devices in your house to the external world. From the outside world we see only your router.
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#7 2009-02-17 19:13:50
Re: Website login and post glitches?
well, i have a Linksys Router and one comp is connected to it while all other laptopish devices are wireless.
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#8 2009-02-18 11:46:17
Re: Website login and post glitches?
Those wireless devices are still connected to the router, just not with wires. 
Each one of your computers has its own private IP address while connected to the router, which has the public address associated with your internet service. To the outside world, all of the activity in your home appears to come from one source.
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#11 2009-03-05 22:14:28
Re: Website login and post glitches?
footnotes wrote:
I'll check the external ip but I'm doubtful that's the problem because my previous classes didn't have this problem in the fall.
Thanks for the thoughts!
really? then would it be an update on scratch that left a loop? Or am I just speaking nonsense?
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