Network Installation

Our Organizers use Borland Database Engine (specifically its DBase subset) and you have to perform certain steps in order to set it up on a network. Useful information you can find on the Internet, go to Frequently Asked Questions are: http://www.primasoft.com

After downloading the trial version of Organizer Deluxe or Pro to the server do the following:

1. Unzip this file and run Setup.exe on the SERVER. Install it on the drive that is accessible from other workstations. If you are installing from a CD just run Setup.exe on the SERVER.
2. On the SERVER, locate your Organizer main folder and run bdesetup.exe. If you don't have this file just download it using this link: http://www.primasoft.com/deluxe/bdesetup.zip and unzip it to your Organizer main folder.
3. Follow all the steps of Bdesetup. You only have to do this ONCE.
4. On every workstation that will be accessing Organizer map the Organizer main folder on the server to a local drive you used when running bdesetup program (e.g. Z:). Use Windows Explorer (Tools/Map Network Drive) to do this.
5. On every workstation create a shortcut on the Desktop pointing to Deluxe.exe or Orgpro.exe file on the server.
6. Try to run Organizer from each workstation. If it works you are done.
7. If it doesn't work select the Organizer main folder and double-click on Bde32.reg file (merge it into the registry).

Understanding Net.ini file:

The [BDE] section has 2 settings that are described above (ConfigPath and BDE Path). Overwrite should be True unless you are really sure that the Windows Registry should not be updated with BDE settings.

The [IniFile] section has only one parameter called IniPath. You should only use it if you want a local copy of net.ini file with individual settings on each workstation (e.g. c:\net.ini). Then, you could specify a different BDE drive for each workstation.

The [UserData] section has one parameter called UserDataDir. It is set to c:\orgdata by default. It specifies a local folder in which all user options are stored. This allows each user to have individual settings for the same database (this includes the data fields layout, print settings and templates, filter templates, etc.).

Note:

When Organizer is installed on a mapped or network drive the help file is copied to c:\. It is possible to change the location of the local help file by adding the following line at the end of net.ini file ([UserData] section): LocalHelpFileFolder=c:\help_folder\