Hello,

Sesame asks the system for the computer name that belongs to the IP address that the Sesame client who is locking the record is on so if there are issues with name resolution you can get what you are seeing. What you can do is use the -system_id startup switch on each client to specify the name that you want displayed in both the notifications tab and in the status bar when a record is locked.

-Ray

Mark,

I doubt it as the display at the bottom of the screen is ComputerName and then a space and then the SystemID as provided by the startup switch so he'd be seeing both names at the same time.

-Ray

The "-system_id" startup switch allows you to add identifying information about the client that the server can use to distinguish one client from another. This is especially useful in your case (where the OS is not correctly identifying different computers) or in the case where you have more than one client running on the same computer and you need to tell them apart.

The syntax is:
sesame -system_id MySpecialName

Where "MySpecialName" is any single word, no spaces. As Ray mentioned, this string will appear next to the system name in the administrative interface.

No, it is a startup switch.

Whenever you start any program, whether on the command line or from an icon, you are really starting it from a command line, though in the case of an icon, that command line is hidden from you. If you check your Sesame icon's properties you will see the command line that starts Sesame.

Start up switches (and Sesame has a lot of them available) follow the command:

sesame -client MyServer

and give the command options from the start. In the example above, which starts Sesame as a client, the startup switch is "-client".

So, unless you are on a command line proper, look in the icon's properties for the command that starts Sesame. Edit it to add additional startup switches.

To get a list of all of Sesame's startup switches, from a command line, type "sesame -help". They are also list in the manual.

Add it just before or after "-blink".

Yes, you will need to add it to each computer and the string should be unique for that computer.

But, it would still be a good idea to discover why your network/OS is failing to identify computers.

Here is how it works in Sesame (or any other TCP/IP program). When a client connects to the server, the server receives the IP address of that client. This is expressed semi-numerically (i.e.: 192.169.0.12, etc.) The server passes that number to a network library function that is part of the OS to ask name services for the name of the computer that goes with that number. If the function returns an error, Sesame will simply display the number. If there is no error, Sesame displays the name.