There are a ton of articles that you can find through a Google search. But in short, the hosts file short circuits the DNS for a host name. So if you wanted the domain "www.mydevmachine.com" to point to your localhost, then it would look like this in the hosts file:







You can locate the hosts file here:

Thank you for the answer. I dont know how to use hosts file. Could you please help?

Well, your first problem is that you are using an IP address instead of a hostname. The host name is used not only for resolution, but for licensing. I have reset your account so that you can activate this again, but you will need to use a hostname versus an IP address. You can use the hosts file on your local machine to re-route the IP to a host name which will then allow you to work off of your local machine (or another internal machine) without the need for a direct IP connection.



Let's start here and we will see if that gets you going.

Unfortunately it didnt work.



Here is my code:



//-- Create the data source

EnterpriseDataSourceItem ds = new EnterpriseDataSourceItem("",

"192.168.1.147", 80, "MyDataSourceKey",

new SqlDataSourceItem("MyDataSourceKey"));



//-- Configure the compression and encryption (optional)

ds.IsCompressed = true;

ds.IsEncrypted = true;

ds.EncryptionKey = new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 };

ds.EncryptionVector = new byte[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 };



//-- Add the EnterpriseDataSourceItem

DataLayer.DataSources.Add(ds);



The IP address of the server is 192.168.1.147.



Could youo please help?

Done. You should be good to go.

I have the same timeout problem. Could you please reset my account so that I can change my hostname?



Thanks

Glad you got it going!

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So you mean to say that trying to solve the S&L, Mortgage, Banking, Detroit, Job, Economic, Iraq, Iran,  Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Uncle Stan crisis was redundant. All I needed to do was type www.aeswebaccess.com and that would have been enough.

You were right.  It works now!

So next time, if anyone gets an error 500 or timeout, the first thing to do is check to see if you're even connecting to the server by checking status.aspx.  Then if you're running make sure your smtp server is up.  BTW - I wasn't getting any email messages because when I later checked the Event Viewer it said the mailbox wasn't available.  Make sure that the SMTP server allows relay messages from the localhost.  That allowed ES to send the email through, so I could receive the telltale error report.  (Of course everyone else allready knew that)

Thanks for the help guys,

Marcel

That is the problem.  I have reset your account.  Set the hostname as www.aeswebaccess.com and try again.

OK,

Got the smtp server working. Sent me the following message:

Enterprise Server Error

Message: This server is not licensed to run on the requested hostname. Client IP: 75.104.220.239 Details: Exception This server is not licensed to run on the requested hostname. Source : MicroFour StrataFrame Enterprise Server Stack Trace: at MicroFour.StrataFrame.Enterprise.Server.RemoteDataSource.ᜀ(String A_0) at MicroFour.StrataFrame.Enterprise.Server.RemoteDataSource.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)

On my end, the application is located at www.aeswebaccess.com/aes/es.  IIS shows the application name as es. I registered the ES with you as www.aeswebaccess.com/aes/es.  So, what did I do wrong?

Thanks,

Marcel