Desktop App: Error "another softphone running on your computer"

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saint-therese-center-hiv-outreach570 asked Dec 14, '15 cglassy3135 answered Jun 18, '19

Desktop App: Error "another softphone running on your computer"

If a user (Windows account) is signed in and is running softphone, no other user/Windows account can run softphone. For example, John signs in after boot and runs softphone. John goes home for the day without closing softphone and without logging out of Windows. Jane comes in later and logs in to the same workstation. When she tries to run softphone, she receives the following error message: "There is another Softphone running on this computer (by another user). Please close it and try again." Jane doesn't have the credentials to log into John's account, so the has to reboot the computer, risking losing any of John's unsaved work. When John comes in the next day, he runs into the same problem and the two are constantly stepping on each other's work. Is there a method that will allow multiple users run separate instances of softphone simultaneously from their respective Windows accounts? Ringcentral for Windows 7.4.1.17562 on Windows 8.1 Enterprise

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Answer 1 · 2015-12-15T00:54:41Z

saint-therese-center-hiv-outreach570 answered Dec 15, '15

I can't recall the last time I ran software with this limitation. Is this unique to "RingCentral for Windows" or would I be similarly disappointed with the legacy SoftPhone?

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Answer 2 · 2015-12-15T15:06:11Z

kim answered Dec 15, '15

Usually that error message occurs when the old Legacy softphone is still installed. Please have the user uninstall it. The old legacy that needs to be removed will be listed as "Softphone", the new ones to keep will be listed as "RingCentral for Windows".

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Answer 3 · 2016-01-24T22:27:08Z

maria-ayala-and-associates961 answered Jan 24, '16 kim commented Nov 11, '19

Have that problem and have only installed version 7.4. Running Windows 7 Pro as a server with remote login 4 accounts. But only one person can sign in at a time?

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J.B. Ferguson commented · Jan 27, 2016 at 08:02 PM

Maria,

I think where you are getting confused is where Kim is referring to "DL", meaning Digital Line. You are talking about separate extensions. A RingCentral client could possibly have 1,000 extensions but only one digital line. Therefore, only one user can log into the Desktop app with the digital line login.

If you have four digital lines, then four users could log into the Desktop app (each one with a separate digital line) at the same time.

How many digital lines (i.e., separate phone lines [not toll-free numbers]) do you have? You mentioned four accounts...are you referring to four extensions or four digital lines?

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kim commented · Jan 25, 2016 at 02:21 PM

Maria, Yes you are correct...only 1 user can login to the Desktop App (DL) at a time. If multiple people try to login to the same DL then some issues will occur.

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maria-ayala-and-associates961 commented · Jan 27, 2016 at 06:56 PM

Everyone has a separate login (ext) so they are as I understood it logging in separately? Under different remote desktops?

So anyone just running it once on the remote server will prevent anyone else from using it?
Thank you

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maria-ayala-and-associates961 commented · Jan 27, 2016 at 10:45 PM

We are not using any DL's on the server/remote desktops everything is done through the internet. We use the fax function mainly on the remote desktop. The internet connection is FIOS? If we use the phone function that is on each work station and each of those have their own phone line. But most of the work we do daily is on the local server using remote desktop.

So is it just a setting that we are missing? Or is it also limited to one internet connection?

Thank You.

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kim commented · Jan 29, 2016 at 04:06 PM

Maria- did you uninstall the old legacy softphone off the PC's?

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Answer 4 · 2016-01-26T23:10:03Z

lois-cowan answered Jan 26, '16

This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled cannot open ringcentral. It says another softphone is running on my computer.

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Answer 5 · 2017-06-09T22:42:41Z

vince-savoldi772 answered Jun 9, '17 craig-lohman8067 commented Nov 18, '19

I think you missed the other persons point... but I will start another thread if needed or please move it as needed.

I am getting the same error message but for a slightly different reason.

The OP has one machine being shared by 2 people who Log-in and forget to Log-out when they leave. Since the 1st person is still logged into the machine when the 2nd person logges in, Ring Central throws this error. Current version or old version as far as I can tell.

I on the other hand am getting this error message on a Remote Desktop environment.

We are using Windows Remote Desktop virtual services to feed virtual desktops to multiple users.

I log into one of the remote VM's using my domain credentials.
My desktop opens. I launch Ring Central and receive this message.

I believe the issue is that this same piece of hardware Windows Server 2010R2 may have 20 virtual desktops running with everyone trying to use the ring central application.

So the real question for the OP and myself...

Can ring central application be used in a shared environment (single machine with multiple users)

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saadetswift16514 commented · Oct 25, 2017 at 02:16 PM

Hello,

The desktop app can be authorized on two separate computers (with the same credentials), but isn't meant to be logged into at the same time with those same credentials. For instance, I am able to login into my desktop app on my work or personal computer at separate times. But if I wanted to log into my desktop app on a third computer, I would have to deauthorize one of the computers before doing so via the webportal. Furthermore, the desktop app was not meant to be used in a "virtual machine" environment. Does that answer your question?

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craig-lohman8067 commented · Jan 17, 2018 at 07:14 PM

This is disappointing. Please add our company to the list of those requesting the ability to utilize RingCentral for Windows App within a Terminal Server environment. We have a few of our users that utilize terminal server to log into their individual desktop. It is expected that these users should have the same functionality through RingCentral that other users have.

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mike commented · Jun 12, 2017 at 09:59 PM

No Vince, It can't be shared in the scenario you described. It's designed to be run by a single user, single machine and not on any VM environments.

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vince-savoldi772 commented · Jun 12, 2017 at 10:10 PM

Thank you for the confirmation. Are there any plans for this in the future?
perhaps use the machine name instead of the IP as the validator along with the name/PW.

But then personally I don't understand why they have the single machine requirement, instead of a simple One logon per user, if the user logs in somewhere else, the first connection gets disconnected (if not in active call) if in an active call the 2nd logon attempt fails.

To my simple mind, this seems pretty simple and easy and would solve a of of usability issues..

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mike commented · Jun 12, 2017 at 10:26 PM

There are not plans that I know of. However, you are welcome to submit this as a new post/new feature request.

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Answer 6 · 2019-06-18T19:55:52Z

kevin-kirkfield answered Jun 18, '19

RC needs to catch up to the times. All of our clients work in virtual RDS environments. Surely they have some sharp Developers that can write the RC app to be multil user friendly.

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Answer 7 · 2019-06-18T20:02:31Z

cglassy3135 answered Jun 18, '19

USA-based acct | 2287 Users | 3800 DID lines | 28 sites | all Polycom VVX500 phone handsets

@Kevin Kirkfield - I would not make the assumption that it is a programming deficit, it is an Intellectual Property topic - RingCentral has the right to limit user accounts to one licensed copy per user for their software. Some users complain about it, true, but to be fair - they developed the code and how they do or do not share use of it - is RingCentral's choice.

Join our unofficial RingCentral Admins User Group
http://ringcentraladminusersgroup.org/index.html

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