Migrating Aloha to new machine help!

[Skrubb]

Okay, let me start by explaining the old system. Aloha 5.3.1, 2 FOH Terms, 1 BOH. BOH running on Windows XP Professional, both FOH's running on Windows 2000 Professional. I was able to just upgrade the hardware of the BOH system and just update drivers and no issues there. One of the FOH's crashed this week(not the master thankfully), so I decided it would just be time to get upgrades to the hardware. Since Aloha doesn't require any hard registry changes, I decided it would be easier just to grab the Aloha directory, and port it to the new machines. I started on the one that has crashed, and haven't gotten any further then this one yet. I'm not super familiar with Aloha, as I'm just merely a .NET dev, and I'm doing this as a favor to some friends of mine who own this bar and grill. At any rate, everything went great porting Aloha to the new machine. Aloha starts up, gets their scrolling logo, and here's where the issue comes in, when we try to log into the Aloha POS on this term, it gives us the "System redundancy limit has been exceeded, please restore fileserver to continue or...", you get the point. So I went into the Aloha directory, deleted the TRANS.LOG file to ensure it was copying the correct one from the fileserver, I also went to the BOH machine and did a fileserver recovery on that machine. I've made sure the LANA numbers are set correctly, the computer name is exactly as it was on the previous setup, the BOOTDRV is shared both ways, the one on the BOH is mapped as Z, and the C drive on FOH is shared to the BOH, I can save files both ways. I looked in the DEBOUT file and did not see any errors in there either. I'm currently not at the restaurant that I'm working on, so I can't post a copy of the DEBOUT. If anyone knows why or how to resolve the redundancy limit exceeded issue, please do let me know. It's worth mentioning, when the new computer starts up, and the Aloha software starts up, it does recognize the other TERM, and does not throw any other errors, just that redundancy one. Please someone help!

 

[sheerdyn]

check your ibercfg.bat file and make sure the BOH computer name matches up with your ibercfg.bat

SET SERVER=ALOHABOH

your BOH computer name should be alohaboh.