Vantage Clientsetup

Try making sure you can access files on the new server through network
neighborhood. Make sure you can ping the server using it's UNC Path name,
as well as its IP address

(ping \\newserver)

Check the hosts file of course....

Make sure that the computer user has full access to the vantage directory,
except to the files restricted as per "Securing vantage with NT
Permissions", on Eranet, if you are concerned with security. If your
logging in as admin, that's probably not an issue.

When you uninstall vantage 3, it doesn't remove the registry references to
the old server. I'm not sure if the uninstall acts the same in 4 and 5.
These old references, in vantage 3, will prevent you from logging onto the
new server.

If the hosts file fixes doesn't work, What you'll want to do is uninstall
the client again, BACK UP THE REGISTRY, then search the registry of the
client machines for references to the old paths, and delete the old
references. try once with the old mapped drive letter, and again with the
full UNC Pathname.
For example:

x:\Vantage

\\oldserver\share\dwc\vantage


If that doesn't work, FDISK AND REFORMAT. That solves it every time.

Keep us posted!

Thaddeus





-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Caughey [mailto:caugheyt@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 3:23 PM
To: 'vantage@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [Vantage] Vantage Clientsetup


If you changed the name of the server and/or the IP address you may also
need to look at the Hosts file in c:\Windows (or whever Windows folder is)
on the client.
-Todd C.
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.

-----Original Message-----
From: mthompson@...
[mailto:mthompson@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:51 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage Clientsetup


When we changed servers there are two machines that lost their ability
to run Vantage. I have removed progress and reinstalled client setup
again. When I go to start Vantage the splash comes up and then
disappears. The error message then comes "Can not connect to server
for Vantage." When i ping the server it is there. Any suggestions
to get these machines reconnected would be appreciated?
When we changed servers there are two machines that lost their ability
to run Vantage. I have removed progress and reinstalled client setup
again. When I go to start Vantage the splash comes up and then
disappears. The error message then comes "Can not connect to server
for Vantage." When i ping the server it is there. Any suggestions
to get these machines reconnected would be appreciated?
did the IP of the new machine change???

if so you might have some old settings in the hosts files that need to be
changed.

-Rob Ackerman

----- Original Message -----
From: <mthompson@...>
To: <vantage@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:51 PM
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage Clientsetup


> When we changed servers there are two machines that lost their ability
> to run Vantage. I have removed progress and reinstalled client setup
> again. When I go to start Vantage the splash comes up and then
> disappears. The error message then comes "Can not connect to server
> for Vantage." When i ping the server it is there. Any suggestions
> to get these machines reconnected would be appreciated?
>
>
>
> Useful links for the Yahoo!Groups Vantage Board are: ( Note: You must
have already linked your email address to a yahoo id to enable access. )
> (1) To access the Files Section of our Yahoo!Group for Report Builder and
Crystal Reports and other 'goodies', please goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/files/.
> (2) To search through old msg's goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/messages
> (3) To view links to Vendors that provide Vantage services goto:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vantage/links
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
>
>
>
If you changed the name of the server and/or the IP address you may also
need to look at the Hosts file in c:\Windows (or whever Windows folder is)
on the client.
-Todd C.
Harvey Vogel Mfg. Co.

-----Original Message-----
From: mthompson@...
[mailto:mthompson@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 2:51 PM
To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Vantage] Vantage Clientsetup


When we changed servers there are two machines that lost their ability
to run Vantage. I have removed progress and reinstalled client setup
again. When I go to start Vantage the splash comes up and then
disappears. The error message then comes "Can not connect to server
for Vantage." When i ping the server it is there. Any suggestions
to get these machines reconnected would be appreciated?



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[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
At 03:51 PM 7/24/2001 , you wrote:
>When we changed servers there are two machines that lost their ability
>to run Vantage. I have removed progress and reinstalled client setup
>again. When I go to start Vantage the splash comes up and then
>disappears. The error message then comes "Can not connect to server
>for Vantage." When i ping the server it is there. Any suggestions

If you did not check "use dynamic name resolution" when you originally
installed Vantage, then the setup program created a "hosts" file on that
client machine with a name to IP pointer that will override other name
resolution on your network.

Did you keep the same server name, but use a different IP address? If so,
check for a hosts file on those two machines. If the only things in it
are references to your Vantage servers, just delete the whole file. With
that gone, it will query DNS or WINS and find the correct address for the
new server.

-Wayne Cox