Hello everyone, I moved the server to another machine and it seems to be working, for now at least. Not sure what is going on! Alan
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:40 PM, Alan Tilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Koen & Douglas, > Thank you for confirming that I don't need to change the port numbers for > 2 servers on different machines on the same network. I was "pretty" sure > that this had worked in the past! > Also, my attempt at changing the port numbers does seem to have made the > 2nd server invisible, not showing up in available. > So I changed the ports back to factory settings, closed & reopened 4d > server, switched to another (virtual) machine and still the 2nd db is not > showing up. > Formerly it was showing up and then there was an error message when people > tried to log into it to test the changes. They got this message "The > connection for this process has been disrupted or the connection couldn't > be established". > Any ideas would really be appreciated! > Alan > > > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Douglas Cryer via 4D_Tech < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Alan, >> >> If you are running the databases on different servers each with their own >> IP address you should not need to change the ports at all. In this case, >> if both are set with the default ports then they will both be visible under >> available. >> >> If you are running two or more servers on the same server/ip address then >> you must change one of the databases to broadcast on different ports. The >> server with the changed ports will not be visible under available to a >> client that has not itself been customised. >> >> Instead you would need to click on the server that is available then go >> to the custom tab change the name and add the port number to the end of the >> IP address with a colon at the start such as “:19001” >> >> Regards, Dougie >> ________________________________________________________ >> >> telekinetix Limited- J. Douglas Cryer >> Phone : 01234 761759 Mobile : 07973 675 218 >> 2nd Floor Broadway House, 4-6 The Broadway, Bedford MK40 2TE >> Email : [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Web : >> http://www.telekinetix.com <http://www.telekinetix.com/> >> ________________________________________________________ >> >> ********************************************************************** >> 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) >> FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html >> Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html >> Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech >> Unsub: mailto:[email protected] >> ********************************************************************** >> > > ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) FAQ: http://lists.4d.com/faqnug.html Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: http://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:[email protected] **********************************************************************
