Seafile windows client and multiple users at same time - Exits with "Seafile already running"

[Russell Jones]

Hi all,

How do I configure the Seafile client to allow multiple users that are logged into a Windows machine to all run the client at the same time? I've done some searching and there are posts talking about edit the port so each user has a unique port, however I don't even get a chance to do that, the client exits immediately with the error "Seafile already running". I do not see a ccnet folder being created for the other user for me to be able to edit.

Do I need to make this folder manually? Why isn't the client making this for me?

Thanks for any thoughts and ideas on how to get this to work properly!

[Christian Sonnenberg]

Have you tried starting seafile once for every user with no one else logged in?

[Russell Jones]

Hi Christian,

Yes I figured that part out (late night - took a little bit to come to that idea!). I got the ccnet.conf edited for my second user to use a different client port, but unfortunately I still get the error that seafile is already running when trying to start it.

Surely this is supported, I didn't even think to test that the desktop client could support multiple users running it at the same time under Windows....

[Russell Jones]

Bump. Developers, any fixes in the works for this? The clients really should be multi-user aware.

[Tobias]

Hi there,

I still get this error when multiple users are logged in... at least for the second user opening the client. 

Is there a workaround existing?

[02/02/17 14:27:27] ccnet_register_service_sync: Bad response for register service seafile-dummy-service: 516 The service existed[02/02/17 14:27:27] seaf-daemon.c(505): Failed to bind ccnet service

[02/03/17 09:29:47] ccnet_register_service_sync: Bad response for register service seafile-dummy-service: 516 The service existed[02/03/17 09:29:47] seaf-daemon.c(505): Failed to bind ccnet service

[02/03/17 13:57:32] ccnet_register_service_sync: Bad response for register service seafile-dummy-service: 516 The service existed[02/03/17 13:57:32] seaf-daemon.c(519): Failed to bind ccnet service

Thanks, Tobias

Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2014 07:17:21 UTC+1 schrieb Russell Jones: