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- The following information was compiled by Borland technical support and is
- posted unmodified (except for this message and our address) as taken from
- CompuServe's BORAPP forum.
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- ============== INSTALLING PARADOX 3.0 ON THE LANtastic NETWORK ===============
- 3/16/89
- The LANtastic Network, by Artisoft (575 E. River Rd., Tucson, AZ 85704 (602-
- 293-6363)) is a low-cost non-dedicated network that is fully NETBIOS
- compatible. Paradox 3.0 was installed and tested on LANtastic (version
- current as of 3/16/89). Trasfer rate on the network boards is 2mbs, not
- bad considering the cost of the entire net. The following paragraphs walk you
- through the installation.
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- Installation of the LANtastic network itself is very straightforward and
- easy. The purpose of this technote is NOT to explain the installation of
- LANtastic, but rather the installation of Paradox 3.0 on LANtastic. It is
- assumed that you have installed LANtastic and have it running. Your file
- server, which is also a workstation, has a C: drive and you are logged in
- as the supervisor (ie. in LANtastic lingo, the "manager", if you followed
- the LANtastic installation accordingly).
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- In terms of LANtastic, there's really only 1 thing you must do in order to
- prepare it for use with Paradox: you must set up a directory to be used as
- the location of the PARADOX.NET file - this will also be the shared data
- directory. As per the Paradox manuals, this directory should be called
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- \PDOXDATA
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- All users should have all rights to this directory since it will be a
- shared directory. The PARADOX.NET control file will be stored in this
- directory. From the root directory on your C: drive, type in
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- MD PDOXDATA
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- You now have a \PDOXDATA directory.
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- Assuming you're logged in as the "manager" and sitting at the DOS prompt,
- load the NET_MGR.EXE program supplied by LANtastic. This program will
- allow you to map a share-name to the C:\PDOXDATA directory. When the
- NET_MGR program loads, choose the "Network access information" choice
- from the menu. You will then get a list of your current share-names and
- directories that they're linked to. Press the [Ins] key on your keyboard
- to add a new share-name. You'll be prompted for the "..name of the link
- directory or @Device". Type in "PDOXDATA" and press [Enter]. You'll then
- be returned to the list of current share-names. Select the PDOXDATA choice
- and press [Enter]. You'll then get a menu of choices, one of which will be
- "Link path". Choose this option and type in "C:\PDOXDATA" and press [Enter].
- Now press [Esc] a couple of times to return to the DOS prompt.
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- You'll now have to edit you AUTOEXEC.BAT file and add the following line:
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- NET USE E: \\SERVER1\PDOXDATA
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- where SERVER1 is the name you gave to your file server when you installed
- LANtastic. That's it for the LANtastic end of it!
-
- Now install Paradox according to the directions in the Paradox manuals.
- Log onto the C: drive of the file server as "manager" and make sure you're
- in the root directory and the Paradox installation is in your A: drive,
- type in:
- A:INSTALL
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- Answer "Yes" when asked if you'll be installing Paradox on a network, choose
- "Other" for network type (number 7) and for the location of the network
- control file, type in "E:". Continue the installation as instructed by the
- Paradox manuals.
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- Once Paradox has been installed, go to the \PARADOX3 directory and use the
- DOS ATTRIB command to make all the files except PARADOX3.SOM read-only:
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- ATTRIB +R *.*
- ATTRIB -R PARADOX3.SOM
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- When you load Paradox, load it with the -SHARE option:
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- PARADOX3 -SHARE
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- This lets Paradox know that you want it to treat the local drive (the
- server's C: drive) as a network drive. This is necessary since this is
- a non-dedicated network. Be sure to play the CUSTOM script for each user
- to specify their username and the location of their private directory.
- That's it!
-
- I tested this on 2 Compaq portables, 2 net boards supplied by ArtiSoft,
- each station had 640K RAM and a monochrome monitor. Performance was good
- and all file/record locking worked correctly.
-
- Peter M. Jagielski
- Borland International
- Technical Support Engineer