PC Access for Windows Version 4.20 - Network Installation Notes For more information on installing and configuring PC Access for Windows read the PC Access for Windows Installation Guide included with your diskettes. -------------------- a) Before installing If you are running a peer to peer network, be sure to read section (e) below before you proceed. PC Access for Windows is a 16-bit Windows program. It will run on Windows 3.1/3.11, Windows 95, Windows NT 3.5/3.51, and Windows NT 4.0. PCAWin will work with most printers with Windows print drivers. PC Access is a copy protected program. This means you will only be able to install it a limited number of times. Regardless of how many installs your copy of PC Access has, you may only use one copy at a time. Using more than one copy of the program at the same time is a violation of the PC Access license agreement and is punishable by law. Please read the section in your Installation Guide titled "About the User Authorization" for more details. Network versions of PC Access are licensed for concurrent use by as many people as you have purchased a license for. -------------------------- b) Disk space requirements You must have at least 10MB of free space on your hard drive to install PCAWin. If you plan to keep data files from your MLS sessions you will need more disk space. -------------------- c) Installing PCAWin PCAWin can be installed to the file server from any workstation. The install program places the PCAWin 4.20 software on a shared network drive. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO INSTALL TO A NON-NETWORK DRIVE! The install program does not differentiate between local and network drives, so you must be careful to install to a network drive. The drive/directory you install to must be accessible to all of your workstations. Please note: All workstations that wish to access PCAWin will need read, write, execute, create directory, rename and delete file privileges for the PCAWin directory and all sub-directories. To install PC Access for Windows to the file server, run the Setup program on Disk 1. You can do this from either the Windows Explorer (for Win95 and WinNT 4.0 users) or the Run Program dialog. See the section in your Installation Guide titled "Installing PC Access for Windows" for more information. You will now need to go to each workstation to perform the workstation setup for PCAWin. You will NOT need the diskettes for the workstation install. -------------------- d) Installing PCAWin on a workstation Workstation Setup If necessary, map an appropriate drive on the workstation which allows access to the PCAWin directory on the file server. Next, run the SETUP.EXE program located in the WORKSTA subdirectory of the PCAWin directory on the file server. Do NOT re-run the SETUP.EXE program from the installation floppy diskettes! The special PCAWin SETUP.EXE program on the file server creates the icons and initialization files for the workstation. Repeat this process for each workstation that will run PCAWin. You can install PCAWin on as many workstations as desired; however, PC Access will limit the number of simultaneous users to the number of workstation licenses you purchased. When the maximum number of users has been reached, PCAWin will display an error for any additional users attempting to run PC Access. For information on configuring PC Access for Windows to access your MLS across a WAN or the Internet, read the file WANINST.TXT in your PCAWin directory. --------------------------------------- e) Installing on a Peer to Peer network Due to limitations in the User Authorization mechanism, you cannot run the network version of PC Access on the same machine that's acting as a server for other workstations. This means that on a peer to peer network the network version of PC Access will not be able to run on the "server" machine. To get around this problem you can purchase a separate standalone (i.e. non-network) copy of PC Access and load it on the "server" machine for local use. You must, of course, install the standalone version of PC Access to a different directory than you installed the Network version. Note that regardless of the above limitation, MFM does NOT recommend running PC Access on a machine that is acting as a server for other machines. This includes print and file services. If you must run in this configuration, we strongly advise you to equip your "server" machine with an intelligent serial card (like a Hayes ESP) and an external modem. If you fail to do this, you will more than likely experience a large number of communications errors whenever a workstation requests services from your machine (i.e. the server).