Networking All About Shape and Space

The details of the installation process vary from system to system. You are advised to contact your network manager or IT coordinator to assist in the installation. The following are broad outlines generic to most network platforms.

Installation on the Server

It is recommended that, to maximise the performance of this CD-ROM to large numbers of concurrent workstations, it is necessary to copy or image the contents of the CD-ROM to an area of the hard disk of your network server. To distribute the CD-ROM to small numbers of concurrent users a CD Stack or tower will most likely give acceptable performance.

If imaging onto a server, it is best to assign a drive letter to the area that the discs are going to be copied to e.g. S: and then have sub directories on S: for each product. That way you could use a single drive letter for multiple CD titles, as long as the workstation always connected to that drive at logon (you may choose to do this via a login script or select the reconnect at logon check box within windows).

Installation on Workstations

using Windows 95, 98 or NT Once the CD-ROM has been copied to the server, or the CD-ROM placed in the CD tower, the software must be installed from that location to run on the individual workstations. This stage must be repeated on each of the workstations that you wish to use the software.

(a) Double click on 'Network Neighborhood from the desktop to open a window. Or, if you have mapped a drive letter already to the images on your file server use my computer to connect to that area e.g. S: is in the example above

(b) Navigate to the Folder on the Server which contains the data from the CD.

(c) Double click on setup.exe to install the software to that workstation.

(d) Within the folder there will be a start_s.rsc file, move this file to the root of the drive which contains the data.

(e) Move Shape.exe and tri1.co from RES\95_shape (31_shape if you are using Windows 3.x) into the shape directory.

(f) Edit the Target path of the shortcut so that it points to the Shape.exe which located within the Shape folder on the server. The start in path must also be modified to point to the same Shape folder on the server.

Please note: Depending on the operating system you may encounter the following error: "Failed to execute setup", whilst trying to install from the server. If this message appears run Setup32 within Ws32 (Setup16 within Ws16 if you are using Windows 3.x).

Running the Software

Once the contents of the CD-ROM have been copied to the server, the software has been installed to the individual workstation and the shortcut paths modified, the program is ready to run.

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