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Users work on files in client workspace directories on their own machines; these files are transferred to and from a shared file perforce connect to server failed check $p4port repository located on a Perforce server. Every Perforce system uses one server set p4port and can have many client workstations. The following programs do the bulk of Perforce's work: The Perforce Server connect to server failed check $p4port wsaeconnrefused (p4d) runs on the Perforce server machine, manages the shared file repository, and keeps track of users, workspaces, and other Perforce metadata. Perforce client programs (such as p4) run perforce wsaetimedout on Perforce client machines, sending user requests to the Perforce Server (p4d) for processing. Perforce client programs use TCP/IP to communicate with the Perforce Server. To use Perforce, you must supply your client program with the address and port of the Perforce server to which you want to connect. See "Setting up your environment to use Perforce" on page21
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for details. Before you begin This chapter assumes that your system administrator has already installed and configured a Perforce server (p4d) for you, and that the server is up and running. If this is not the case (for instance, if you're installing Perforce for the first time), you must install the Perforce server before continuing. For an overview of how to set up a server, see "Installing Perforce" on page143. The installation information in this manual is intended to help you install a server for evaluation purposes. If you're installing a production server, or are planning on extensive testing of your evaluation server, read the full installation instructions in the System Administrator's Guide. Setting up your environment to use Perforce In order to connect to a Perforce server, you must supply your Perforce client program with two pieces of information: the name of the host on which p4d is running, and the port on which p4d is listening To connect to a Perforce server, specify the host and port number by setting the P4PORT environm
are created and edited by users on their own client hosts; these files are transferred to and from a shared file repository
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located on a Perforce server. Every running Perforce system uses a single p4 connect command line server and can have many clients. As mentioned earlier, two programs do the bulk of Perforce's work: connect to server failed; check $p4port. wsaetimedout The p4d program runs on the Perforce server. It manages the shared file repository, and keeps track of users, clients, protections, and other Perforce metadata. The p4 program runs https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.051/manuals/p4guide/02_connect.html on each Perforce client. It sends the users' requests to the p4d server program for processing, and communicates with p4d via TCP/IP. Each Perforce client program needs to know the address and port of the Perforce server with which it communicates. This address is stored in the P4PORT environment variable. Before you begin This chapter assumes that https://www.perforce.com/perforce/doc.031/manuals/p4guide/02_connect.html your system administrator has already set up a Perforce server (p4d) for you, and that it is already up and running. If this is not the case (for instance, if you're installing Perforce from scratch), you'll also have to install the Perforce server before continuing. See the appendix, "Installing Perforce" on page139, for information on how to install the server. The information in the appendix is intended to help you install a server for evaluation purposes. If you're installing a production server, or are planning on extensive testing of your evaluation server, we strongly encourage you to read the full installation instructions in the Perforce System Administrator's Guide. Setting up your environment to use Perforce A Perforce client program needs to know two things in order to talk to a Perforce server: the name of the host on which p4d is running, and the port on which p4d is listening These are set via a single environment variable, P4PORT. Note See "Setting and viewing environment variables" on page146 for information about ho
here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25640366/how-to-connect-perform-sync-with-perforce-on-mac developers or posting ads with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up How to connect & perform Sync with Perforce on Mac up vote 2 down vote favorite 1 I am trying to access perforce and perform Sync operation from command line on connect to Mac machine OS x 10.8.5 Can any one tell me how to access perforce for command line. I have placed p4 client in /usr/bin directory, From Terminal when i execute command : P4 or p4 help, im getting below error message. Perforce client error: Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT. TCP connect to perforce:1666 failed. nodename not servname provided, or not known Step by step approach to set up Perforce, will be greatly appreciated Note: P4V gui version is connect to server working fine, I need to execute Sync command from Command line for bash script. Thanks in advance. osx command-line-arguments perforce perforce-client-spec perforce-integrate share|improve this question edited Sep 3 '14 at 9:12 asked Sep 3 '14 at 9:06 user3759870 234 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 5 down vote In addition to downloading the 'p4' executable and placing it in your path (which you have already done), you need to set three configuration settings: P4PORT, which is the network address of your Perforce server P4USER, which is your user name that you will use to connect to Perforce P4CLIENT, which is the name of the workspace that you use on this workstation You have already figured these out in P4V, as part of entering the data in the connection dialog. But you need to set these variables separately for the command line to know about them. For example, I might do: p4 set P4PORT=myserver.example.com:1666 p4 set P4USER=bryan p4 set P4CLIENT=bryan-dev and then I would be able to connect with the command line to my Perforce server. Instead of 'p4 set', you can also use 'export' in your shell: export P4PORT=myserver.example.com:1666 export P4USER=bryan export P4CLIENT=bryan-dev Or you can use a P4CONFIG file. Bottom line: set P4PORT, P4USER, and P4CLIENT to match the settings that you use in your P4V connection dialog, and the command line will be ready to go. s