Is it possible to log into the same JATOS account from multiple machines simultaneously?

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• elisa

  July 8

  Hi, do you have JATOS running on a server, or are you running it locally?
• elisa

  July 8

  (PS: I've rejected your message on the google group, it's enough to ask here)
• kri

  July 8

  You can sign-in with the same JATOS account on different browsers or computers. Just an idea, maybe you have a different keyboard layout or caps-lock is on?

  Best,

  Kristian
• elisa

  July 8

  (Also, you can give different users access to the same study, so you don't need to share a password). Just to to Study -> Members and add the person you want to have access to the study by adding their email
• hgonz

  July 8

  running it locally!
• kri

  July 8

  Now I'm confused about your setup. Does each computer has its own local JATOS installation? Or do you have one JATOS locally installed on one computer and access this somehow from all the other computers?
• hgonz

  July 8

  One local jatos installation, I'm TRYING to access this one installation from all the other computers. Would this only be possible if I had JATOS running on a server? Sorry if this is obvious I'm not familiar with how this works lol.
• kri

  July 9

  Usually, it is not straight forward to access a web-application (like JATOS) that runs on a different computer although in the same network. That stems from how most local networks are set up in modern times.

  From JATOS point of view there is no difference between a local and a server installation. Usually a server installation runs on a different port (80 instead of 9000) and uses encryption (https instead of http) but those are usually handled outside of JATOS in a proxy.

  Originally the Internet is just a bunch of connected computers and every computer has an IP address and one could just access other computers by its IP. Maybe you have such an network. You can find out the IP from the computer where JATOS is installed (e.g. 1.2.3.4) and try to access JATOS from a different computer with it (e.g. type in the browser's address http://1.2.3.4:9000).

  If this does not work you have to figure out a way how to turn your JATOS-computer into a server. You could talk to your IT folks and convince them to lower the restrictions. Or you could use a helper like ngrok (https://www.jatos.org/Expose-your-local-JATOS.html).

  I hope this helps.

  Kristian
• hgonz

  July 9 edited July 9

  This is very helpful and interesting information! Thank you Kristian. I will try this out. Thank you very much!