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Perforce uses a client/server architecture. Files are created and edited by users on their own client hosts; these files are transferred to and from a shared file repository located on a Perforce server. Every running Perforce system uses a single server and can have many clients.
Two programs do the bulk of Perforce's work:
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A p4 client needs to know two things in order to talk to the p4d server:
These are set via a single environment variable, P4PORT. It is possible that your system administrator has already set P4PORT; if not, you'll need to set it yourself.
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To verify the connection, type p4 info at the command line. If the P4PORT environment variable is correctly set, you'll see something like this:
The server address: field shows which p4d server has been connected to; it displays the host and port number that p4d is listening on.
In the above example, everything is fine. If, however, you receive a variant of this message: |
then P4PORT has not been correctly set. If the value you see in the third line of the error message is perforce:1666 (as above), then P4PORT has not been set at all; if the value is anything else, P4PORT has been incorrectly set. In either case, you'll need to set the value of P4PORT.
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| Telling p4 Where p4d is
Before continuing, you'll need to ask your system administrator the name of the host that p4d is located on, and the number of the TCP/IP port it's listening on. Once you've obtained this information, set your P4PORT environment variable to host:port#, where host is the name of the host that p4d is running on, and port# is the port that p4d is listening on. For example: |
The definition of P4PORT can be shortened if p4 is running on the same host as p4d. In this case, only the p4d port number need be provided to p4. And if p4d is running on a host named or aliased perforce, listening on port 1666, the definition of P4PORT for the p4 client can be dispensed with altogether. For example:
When P4PORT has been set, you should re-verify the connection with p4 info, as described above. Once this has been done, Perforce is ready to use.
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