11-13-2013 12:12 PM
We are using a Sage Act 11 Pro in our office with a shared database. Microsoft had an update yesterday or early this morning and now the client computers will not connect to the host. The host's ip address changed but I do not have the pad file linked to the ip address- only to the computer's network name. I deleted the old pad file and also the alf file and constructed new ones. The SQL server is running. I can access ACT fine on the host.
Any thoughts?
11-14-2013 03:28 AM - edited 11-14-2013 03:28 AM
Has the share gone for database from ACT! do to Tools -> database maintenance and make sure there is a tick in the share database.
Can you see the shared folder on the server via the client machine?
Then I would check the firewall settings on the server, switch it off and then see if the users machines can connect.
11-14-2013 05:15 AM
11-14-2013 06:31 AM
Sharing was active. And there were no firewall issues.
What I did was change to pad file to reflect the ip address instead of the network name and that worked. Why I don't know. But everything was working fine yesterday and is today as well.
11-14-2013 06:36 AM - edited 11-14-2013 06:37 AM
It might be the DNS causing the issue, try pinging the machine via it's name on a client machine and see what IP it is trying to ping.
If it's incorrect try flushing the dns on the machine, open a comand prompt on the machine and then enter ipconfig /flushdns then ping it again to see if it correctly resolves the correct IP.
11-14-2013 07:03 AM