Installing a navision server without changing services file.

eromein

Is it possible to install a Navision Server as service using an other port# then 2407 and not having to change the services file?

Doomhammer

Hi

It is not possible. You need to modify services file on server and client side of network in order to tell the network, which port numbers are used by individual servers.

Unix-like files Hosts and services are only way how to identify Navision servers - hosts are used for converting server IP adress to server name and services to convert port number to service name

for example:

hosts file
192.168.1.1    server1 server2 server3
192.168.1.2    server4

services file
2408 server1
2409 server2
2410 server3
2411 server4

it is good idea to modify services file on server before you start navision server service.

We are talking about Navision native DB server, I do not exactly know, how works Navision SQL option (I think single sever and multiple databases)

hope it helps :-)

nelson

Hi,

According to the "Installation & System Management" manual, this is not possible. Try searching on this document for 2407.

Doomhammer

Hi.

I did small experiment

Yesterday I tried to install Navision 3.70 DB server (server name and machine name were different) and tried to use DNS service (host IP adress and port informations) instead of Hosts and services files. I put new entry for Navi server info forward looking zone. Then I started Navision server service and tried to connect on database server. I screwed up, client ignored DNS and looked into host file for IP adress. I got standard navision's error message.

I thought, MBS-Navision 3.70 will be capable to use "new" technologies such as DNS, but it is still unable :-)

So I think, modifying HOSTS is the ONLY way how to install multiple servers on single machine. Client is able to work only with these files and it ignores DNS or other methods.

M.

PrebenRasmussen

My experience is, that it works fine, but only regarding the service name, not the port no. So you can not skip the services file if using nonstandard port no.

Maybe you should try again knowing this.

eromein

is it possible to create more then one Host and Services files and setup windows so that is looks to multiple files to get the required info?

PrebenRasmussen

As I recall, there was a possibility of using some kind of INCLUDE statement in lmhosts.
I am not sure if this is the case for services and hosts. But do try it out.
I can not help you more than this, try searching other forums for INCLUDE and the mentioned files.

Frekie

It is necessary to modify the services file as mentioned. But only on the server.
It is possible to enter the navision server into the dns. Wait for replication and make sure the client has a default domain suffix.

To connect from any client.
Create manually a shortcut to fin.exe and enter:
...fin.exe" servername=navisionsvcname:portnumber.

It does work.

GoMaD

If Active Directory is available on your network, isn't that supposed to take care of all these troubles (IP adresses and Port Numbers)?

GoMaD

found something, works on W2k

open your command prompt
browse to the directory where server.exe can be found
enter following command:

server servername=DBServer:3001,database=c:\data\database.fdb,cache=100000,commitcache=yes,nettype=tcp

When you use this, the database service will run on port 3001 as mentionend in the example. Installasservice works without problem.

From the client you can connect to the DBServer using the following notation in the "Server Name" field of your navision client
(ip of DB server in example is 10.0.1.6)

10.0.1.6:3001

Hope this helps!