Ben Tucker wrote: > im having some perforce troubles.... I have two computers on the same > network, and both have perforce installed. I also have them sharing a > netfolder ( a hard drive shared on the network ). I cant install perforce > server on the netfolder because it isnt actually a server. Id like to store a > perforce depot on there that both the computers can access and use. > > I have attempted this by defining a depot on both of the comps. I did this > with MSDOS: > p4 depot lido > and then changed the map: field to the netfolder's path and where I had the > depot folder. This half worked, as they both could put files up there and do > things with them. however, they could not detect the other computers files, > so they could not collaborate. > > anyone know how to fix this so they can collaborate on the same files? > You shouldn't be "sharing" files anywhere. You install Perforce on one machine and run it as the server...
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/p4sag/01_install.html#1049719 You install Perforce on the other machine (the client) and run it as a client. The server creates a depot using "p4 depot SomeDepotName"... http://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.082/manuals/p4sag/03_superuser.html#1044923 ...and the client(s) access those files by creating a ClientSpec (or Workspace) that contains that depot. The client can then add new files to the depot or sync to revisions of files in the depot. The P4 server keeps track of which version of each file a client has. At no point should you "share" a file between the server and client by putting on a shared network resource where either machine can modify that file. -- Jeffrey "botman" Broome _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
