Opening nav client from server.

Zooki

Hi,

I have two navision servers running. One is a live server and the other a test server.

Opening a session from a client:

to connect to the live i can access the server by using the nav server name in services.exe in the database open field. For the test server i have to use IP address:port number. eg 192.168.x.x:xxxx.

What do i have to do to get this to open by the database server name and not the ip.

Can i rename or redo the batch file to create the service again :?:
and i guess modify the host and services files.

Anyone got the batch file to run? or whats needed.

Thanks

Nic

tinky

You can use windows system files c:\%winroot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts and services in the same location. There you can map servername to user specified location and port, let's say you want to use "testserver" to conect to your test server which is located on 192.168.0.1 at port 5000, so you add
192.168.0.1 testserver ----this in hosts
testserver 5000/tcp ----this in services.


now when you run navision you type testserver in servername filed, and it connects you to 192.168.0.1:5000

Zooki

Thanks for the quick reply.

i will try this out tomorrow.

Does the service name also effect this?

cheers

kine

Yes, the service name must be the same as used i services file...

for example service must be named testserver in previous example from tinky...