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INSTALLING PARADOX 4.0 ON A BANYAN VINES NETWORK ------------------------------------------------ This file contains instructions for installing Paradox on a Banyan Vines or Vines/286 network. These instructions were verified using Banyan Vines 386, version 4.0, on a Compaq DeskPro 386/20E computer using MS-DOS 5.0. TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------------- 1. Assumptions 2. Requirements 3. Installation Steps 1. ASSUMPTIONS -------------- These instructions assume the following about your Banyan installation: - You use Banyan's Vines network allocation and resource software version 2.10 or higher on a Banyan/DTS server. - You're authorized to perform administrative tasks on your Banyan network. - You're familiar with Banyan's network system administration utilities and StreetTalk naming conventions. - You perform all installation and configuration operations from a workstation. 2. REQUIREMENTS --------------- The two disk-related requirements to run Paradox on a Banyan Vines or Vines/286 network are: - You must have a minimum of 4MB free disk space in a server volume for the Paradox system files. - Each user must have a private directory located on either a local hard disk or a network server file volume. The additional memory (RAM) requirements for workstations to run Paradox from a Banyan Vines network are: - A dedicated IBM Personal Computer AT (or 100% compatible) running a Vines/286 network system must have a minimum of 1MB random access memory (RAM). System performance benefits substantially from additional RAM above 1MB. - The minimum 5MB RAM provided with the Banyan/DTS server is sufficient to run Paradox from the server. - Workstations require a minimum of 1MB RAM for joint Vines and Paradox operation. Banyan's Vines workstation software occupies approximately 100K of workstation RAM when installed. 3. INSTALLATION STEPS --------------------- NOTE: This file proposes creating only one Vines file service for all aspects of Paradox. This is to prevent a single application from commanding a disproportionate share of the finite file services on a Banyan network. However, if your network can afford to devote more than one Vines file service to different parts of Paradox--for example, one file service for the Paradox system files and another for Paradox shared data--you can create those multiple file services. You can then set them to different logical drives and modify the user profiles for access to Paradox based on those file services and logical drive assignments. 1) Add a new Vines file service for Paradox: a. Log in to the Banyan server from a network workstation. b. When prompted, enter your login name. (Enter either your Banyan nickname or your full StreetTalk user name, including your group and organization names.) c. When prompted, enter your password. If you don't have a password, or if this is the first time you've logged in to the first server on a network, press [Enter]. d. After the server displays a report on network resources activated during your login, a logical drive designator appears, just like a DOS prompt: E:\> This is the default login drive for the Banyan network system just after Banyan system installation. If you've set a different default drive in your user profile, it appears instead. e. To create the file service for Paradox, invoke the Vines System Management menu in either of these ways: - Type MANAGE at the DOS prompt and choose SERVICES from the menu. or - Type MSERVICE at the system prompt. f. To add Paradox as a new and separate Vines file service, choose Add a Server-Based Service. g. The system prompts for the name of the new file service. StreetTalk name: Enter the StreetTalk name for the Paradox system files file service: PDOX40@group name@org name where "group name" is the name of the group and "org name" is the name of the organization. The PDOX40 item name must be unique in its group. If the PDOX40 item name is already in use, you can't add it again. h. The system prompts for a description of the new service. Enter a description of up to 63 characters. This is for administrative purposes and doesn't affect user access to Paradox. i. When prompted, choose a server. If your network has only one server, skip this step. j. When prompted, choose the type of service you're adding. To indicate a file service, choose Vines File Service. k. When prompted, choose the physical disk on which this service will reside. If the server has only one disk, press [Enter]. l. When prompted, start the file service you just added by choosing YES when the system asks if you want to start the service immediately. m. Exit from the System Management menus by pressing [Esc] until you reach the DOS prompt. 2) At the DOS prompt, link the new file service to a logical drive designation with the command SETDRIVE G PDOX40@group name@org name where "group name" and "org name" are the group and organization names for the service names. You can specify any logical drives from A through Z to point to the Paradox-based file services. We recommend you avoid using A through C so that workstation users don't lose access to their workstations' disk drives. Also, avoid using drive Z so you don't make Banyan's administrative utilities linked to drive Z unavailable. NOTE: The logical drive letter in the SETDRIVE command doesn't include the colon (:) that DOS requires. If you don't create a new file service for Paradox, but instead include Paradox in an applications file service, don't perform this SETDRIVE command. Instead, make sure the applications file service is set to a logical drive. 3) Create a directory for the Paradox system files: Make the Paradox file service logical drive the current drive, change to its root directory, and create the PDOX40 directory with the following commands: G: CD \ MD PDOX40 4) Set read access rights to PDOX40: CD PDOX40 SETARL The SETARL program sets the access rights list for a resource. When the program prompts you for the directory name, press [Enter] to indicate the current directory (that is, PDOX40). Be sure to specify R for read access rights when you edit the access rights list. Consult the chapter on "Services" in the "Banyan Administrator's Guide" for more about access rights. 5) Create a directory for shared Paradox data: Make the Paradox file service logical drive the current drive, change to its root directory, if necessary, and create the PDOXDATA directory with the following commands: G: CD \ MD PDOXDATA 6) Set modify access rights to the PDOXDATA directory: CD PDOXDATA SETARL When the SETARL program prompts you for the directory name, press [Enter] to indicate the current directory (that is, PDOXDATA). Be sure to specify M for modify access rights when you edit the access rights list. Consult the chapter on "Services" in the "Banyan Administrator's Guide" for more about access rights. 7) If you want to create a directory for Paradox private directories, make the Paradox file service logical drive the current drive, change to its root directory, if necessary, and create the PDOXDIRS directory with the following commands: G: CD \ MD PDOXDIRS 8) Set modify access rights to the PDOXDIRS directory: CD PDOXDIRS SETARL When the SETARL program prompts you for the directory name, press [Enter] to indicate the current directory (that is, PDOXDIRS). Be sure to specify M for modify access rights when you edit the access rights list. Consult the chapter on "Services" in the "Banyan Administrator's Guide" for more about access rights. After creating the PDOXDIRS directory, you can change to it and create private Paradox directories for network Paradox users who require them. 9) If you want to include Paradox in another applications file service, exit the System Management menus, if you haven't already done so. When the DOS prompt appears, a. Change to the root directory of the applications file volume. For example, if your applications file service and its top-level directory are called \APPS, and the service is set to logical drive D, type D: CD \APPS b. Create the subdirectory for the Paradox system files. Type MD PDOX40 10) Install the Paradox system files and optional software. Follow the instructions in Chapter 2 of the Paradox "Network Installation Guide." The Paradox INSTALL program copies your Paradox system files and optional software from the program disks into the system files directory, PDOX40. 11) Establish private directories--either on workstations' local hard disks or, for diskless workstations, on the server hard disk. If your users have general private directories on the server disk, use these private directories for Paradox. You can also create specific subdirectories for Paradox in these general private-user directories. For example, if users have private directories on a file service named USERS set to logical drive U, you can do the following: a. Make the USERS drive the current drive. Type U: b. Change to the user's private directory. Type CD\USER-DIRNAME c. Create a Paradox private directory. Type MD PDOXDIRS Be sure to specify this private directory in each user's PARADOX.CFG file and to include it in the user's search path. If you don't routinely provide private directories on the file server for your workstation users, we recommend creating a directory for Paradox private directories on the PDOX40 file service and naming this directory PDOXDIRS. After creating the PDOXDIRS directory, you can create a private subdirectory for each workstation user in the network. Include these Paradox private directories in each user's search path. 12) Create or modify the CONFIG.SYS file of each workstation to set the number of buffers and files needed by Paradox: FILES=40 BUFFERS=40 A workstation's CONFIG.SYS file must be stored in the root directory of the workstation's hard disk (or on the boot disk if the workstation is started from a floppy disk). See Chapter 2 of the Paradox "Network Installation Guide" for details on CONFIG.SYS. NOTE: After editing the CONFIG.SYS file, you must reboot the workstation before you can run Paradox. To reboot, press [Ctrl][Alt][Del]. 13) Set logical drives and paths in Banyan user profiles. You can set the logical drives and search paths for each workstation using different methods. While network users can individually set logical drives for network file volumes and define search paths manually from their keyboards, we strongly recommend against this, because a mistake could cause serious problems for network Paradox users. Instead, we recommend you set the correct logical drives and establish the correct search paths for each user. The most efficient and secure method for doing this is with Banyan "user profiles." A user profile contains commands that are executed when the user logs in to the Banyan network. A user profile is similar to, but distinct from, an AUTOEXEC.BAT file on a workstation. It contains commands that are executed when the workstation is booted. The steps for creating and editing user profiles are explained in the "Administrator's Guide" for the Banyan Vines virtual networking system. Your primary tasks are to - set the appropriate file service(s) to logical drives under the :FILES: heading - establish the appropriate search paths under the :DOS: heading To modify user profiles for Paradox, perform the following steps: a. Type MANAGE and choose Users or type MUSER at the DOS prompt. b. Choose Select; then choose the user whose profile you want to modify. c. Choose Edit to edit the user profile. To edit a profile, move the cursor to the point where you want to add, delete, or modify information. - If you've created a separate file service for the Paradox system files, add the following command under the :FILES: heading of each user profile: SETDRIVE G "PDOX40@group name@org name" where "group name" and "org name" are the group and organization names of the file services you established for Paradox. You can specify any logical drive letter as described previously. These commands should be the same commands you executed prior to installing Paradox on the server. - To establish the appropriate search paths, add one of the following commands under the :DOS: heading of each user profile: PATH = C:\PDOX40;G:\ PATH = U:\user-dirname\PDOXDIRS;G:\ PATH = G:\PDOXDIRS\user-dirname;G:\ Use the first line for network users whose workstations have local hard disks and for whom C:\PDOX40 is the private directory. Use the second line for network users whose workstations are either diskless or have only floppy drives and who also have a private directory on the server. U: can be any logical drive created as a private directory for a network user, "\user-dirname" is the user's private directory name, and "\PDOXDIRS" is the name for the explicit Paradox private directory. Use the third line for users with diskless or floppy-only workstations who don't have general private-server directories. - If instead you've added Paradox to a general applications file service called APPS set to logical drive D, add the following command under the :FILES: heading of each user profile: SETDRIVE D "apps@group name@org name" - To establish the appropriate search paths, add one of the following commands under the :DOS: heading of each user profile: PATH = C:\PDOX40;D:\APPS\PDOX40;+ PATH = U:\user-dirname\PDOXDIRS;D:\APPS\PDOX40;+ PATH = D:\APPS\PDOXDIRS\user-dirname;D:\APPS\PDOX40; Use the first line for network users whose workstations have local hard disks and for whom C:\PDOX40 is the private directory. Use the second line for network users whose workstations are either diskless or have only floppy drives and who also have a private directory on the server. U: can be any logical drive created as a private directory for a network user, "\user-dirname" is the user's private directory name, and "\PDOXDIRS" is the name for the explicit Paradox private directory. Use the third line for users with diskless or floppy-only workstations who don't have general private-server directories. d. After you finish editing the user profiles, exit the System Management utilities. After the appropriate SETDRIVE and PATH commands are included in each user profile, network users can log in to the Banyan Vines or Vines/286 network and start using Paradox by typing PARADOX at the DOS prompt. 14) Create PARADOX.CFG files. See Chapter 4 of the Paradox "Network Installation Guide" for details.