[p4] Client 'xxx' can only be used from host 'yyy' ?

[Slava Imeshev]

----- Original Message ----- 
> Strangely enough, disabling DHCP fixed this. Very strange, because I 
> didn't change router config in a year, and P4V worked just fine until 
> this evening ;-(

Well, something had to change. For instance, your laptop could have 
been rebooted for the first time since it was turned on.

I'd do root cause analysis anyway and see how the host name changes 
with/without DHCP, just to make sure this doesn't happen again.

Regards,

Slava Imeshev

> 
> Dimitri
> 
> Slava Imeshev wrote:
> > I'd check what's the actual host name and the user name 
> > or if there are overrides in P4V settings. Also I have seen 
> > content like this in /etc/hosts driving DNS resolution
> > crazy:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 192.168.123.180 localhost MyHost.local
> >
> > Just my 2c.
> >
> > Slava
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Dimitri Rakitine" <dimitrir at portbridge.com>
> > To: <perforce-user at perforce.com>
> > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 6:49 PM
> > Subject: [p4] Client 'xxx' can only be used from host 'yyy' ?
> >
> >
> >   
> >> My P4V client (OS X, intel) was working just fine until today. Now I'm 
> >> getting this error:
> >>
> >> Client 'java' can only be used from host 'DimaBook.local'.
> >>
> >> which doesn't make any sense: 'DimaBook.local' is the machine name I run 
> >> P4V on.
> >> Is there any way to get rid of this error?
> >>
> >> TIA
> >> Dimitri
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> >
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