SAP GUI 6.40

SAP GUI 6.40

This section is to allow you to get a little feel for what you are going to be doing with the rest of your life.  User accounts have been created for in one of our internal SAP ECC 5.0 instances just in case you don’t have a DEV instance up at your company yet.  It may not be the same SAP flavor or version you will be using at your site but these exercises are Basis oriented and so pertain to every SAP instance.

Installing the SAPGui 6.40 Program on Your Workstation

If you already have a SAPGui 6.40 installed on your workstation, you can skip to You should.  You will need a SAPGui installation on your computer.  If you do not have access to this software, please download the SAPGui-6.40-Comp-3.zip and gui640_13-10001615.exe files from ftp://65.124.71.74/.  The first file installs the SAPGui and the second file patches it.  If you are asked for a user ID and password, use george for both.  Since both of these files are rather large, we recommend the use of a FTP client such as WS_FTP or CuteFTP be used since you can resume a download if your connection is interrupted.  And make sure to use the download FTP client properly.  If your download appears to "hang", let the tool error you out, don't just manually stop and restart the download - your buffers won't be flushed and this can create a error in your download file.

Unzip the zipped file and install the SAGui on your computer by executing \GUI\WINDOWS\WIN32\setup.exe.  It does not hurt if you select all the available SAP options during this install, otherwise let everything default during the installation.  Once you have installed the SAPGui, reboot your workstation if the install does not ask you to do so.  Then use the second file, the exe file, to patch your SAPGui to level 15.  There should be nothing to select or decide during the patch installation.  After the patch is successfully applied, it is best if you reboot your workstation one more time.

Configurating SAPGui 6.40 for SAP Access

You should have a SAPGui Logon Pad icon on your desktop.  Open this icon, click the Systems tab,  and click on the User-Defined button.  Enter the following information and click Add... 

After you have successfully configured your SAPGui, use notepad to cut-and-paste these three lines to the bottom of your \Windows\system32\drivers\etc\services file:

sapdp00      3200/tcp

sapmsERI    3600/tcp

#

The last step is to make sure any firewall software that may intercept your SAP connection is “off”.  Now you should be able to access the SAP instance.  Your company has been granted a range of temporary user IDs in the format of OPUB-TRAIN01 – OPUB-TRAIN05 with a password of init in client 999.  Be sure that your Insert key is set so that you can type your password in properly – you can delete whatever is in the password field in order to enter your password.  These user IDs will be deleted shortly after your GoLive date but not before just in case you need a reference resource. 

Something you should note - this server is not pingable.  Only the 3200, 3300, and 3600 ports are open.  So if you are having problems connecting to the SAP instance, open a DOS-window and type:

        telnet 63.148.190.26 3600

And press ENTER.  If the whole screen goes black and all letters on it disappear, you are reaching the server.  If you get a "Connecting To 63.148.190.26..." message that just sits there, you aren't reaching the server.