mac: eclipse connection to s/4hana

[former_member624584]

Hi guys,

I'm trying to switch to mac. I have sap gui for java up and running. I installed eclipse as well as the abap developer tools.
Unfortunately if I try to connect to a sap system in eclipse I receive the following error: Logon to system S9D failed (hostname 'Thorstens-MacBook-Pro.local.local' unknown.

Did somebody run in this error too? Where does eclipse get the hostname from the system (it is literally my computername and not the name/address of the sap system)?

Cheers,
Thorsten

[Florian]

The connection comes from the logon.ini.

I would recommend you to just create a new connection to your System within eclipse. When you click on new ABAP-Project you can define a new connection native with eclipse. so there are all fields available to get the connection.

Have a look here... julie.plummer explained that in a great way:

https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/abap-create-project.html

Cheers

[Florian]

and because I saw it right after your question, that could also e an option next to it:

https://answers.sap.com/questions/9785454/working-with-abap-in-eclipse-using-mac-os-x.html

[former_member624584]

Hi Florian,

Thanks for the hint.

In my case I had to adjust the entries in the file /etc/hosts.

[former_member624584]

I had to adjust the file /etc/hosts. Within the sap community I found several possible solutions.

In my case it worked to change the name of the first entry to Thorstens-MacBook-Pro.local.local. Hence my first entry look like this: 127.0.0.1 Thorstens-MacBook-Pro.local.local

Also I added the IP-Address and the name of the server of our sap system.

Be sure to run the command 'dscacheutil -flushcache' and restart eclipse after modifying the hosts file