hello all,

I've just started using Sesame.  The program occasionally hangs and I am forced to do an "End Program" in the task manager.  I try to restart Designer and Sesame, but nothing happens, I can't even stop the server since I can't open up the Server Admin. page from a client.  The only way I can shut down Sesame is by doing a Emergency Shutdown.  What am I doing wrong? 

Thank you.

it hangs when i am running Designer, say saving a change or in preview mode.

another question: i am sometimes unable to open Sesame, receiving an error message of "too many clients" when there is currently only 1 connection to the server. so i am forced to do the Emergency shutdown. why's that?

thank you.

no, i've never had the trial version on the system. i have one multiuser install disk with a license count of 4.

If Designer is installed on my local disk, should it's Target properties be pointed at the server or locally? If locally, then I am unable to open the .db files(corresponding to its .dsr files in Designer) in Sesame(which is targeted to the server).. i hope this makes sense.   


i've read that you *shouldn't* have Designer and Sesame open at the same time, but i've encountered the problem where I literally have to close one of the apps to open the other.


thanx

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The target should be your local copy of sdesigner.exe, but, to get to the files on the server, you should use the -client startup switch.

If you started your server with
sesame -server the_server_pc

Then start Designer using
sdesigner -client the_server_pc

Yes. This is the problem. If the target is the copy of Sesame on the server, you are not actually running client/server. You are just launching an executable through the network. Take another look at the instructions for running client-server. Make sure that you are starting a Server on the server machine, then connecting clients to it, not simply running the copy of sesame.exe sitting on the server machine on the local CPU.

If you have not added the -client or -server startup switches, you are just running SDesigner standalone.

If you start Sesame with the -server switch, it will start a Sesame server and sit there waiting for a connection. The license that allows multiple connections must be on this machine.

If you start Sesame with the -client switch, it will attempt to connect to a running Sesame server on the specified machine name.

so i finally discovered the problem, my server only allows 1 connection

i did as the install instructions told, ie., i copied the s_conf file from the license disk to the \Sesame folder on the server. The file appears as a shortcut on the disk, is that correct?

The server *should* allow 5 connections, what am I doing wrong?