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Multi-User Installation to a Server

 

uMULTIUSER SETUP

Even though it can be run as a single user app, ULTRA was designed to server multiple PCs via a network. Key functions like online requisitioning require a Multi PC installation and 999 user ids are available to access ULTRA (we will discuss this later in System Administrator functions).

 

The basic processs for running multiple ULTRA users from a SERVER consists of:

 

·    installing the software setup (setup97.exe) on each PC (see the single-user installation)  and then

·    setting up a SERVER PATH with the app files and

·     mapping the ULTRA desktop icon to the SERVER PATH

v  SETUP THE SERVER PATH 

 

 

To run ULTRA off the network, you must set up a SERVER FOLDER.

 

Here, we will use R:\APPS.

 

Create this path on the server and allow Full Read/Write access and file sharing of all files in the folder.

 

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COPY FILES

Copy ALL FILES FROM:

 

the ULTRA default folder (c:\program files\invplus)

 

TO:

 

the SERVER PATH  (R:\Apps).

 

This will copy the necessary files to the SERVER which include:

 

·    the ULTRA executable program file invULTRA97.exe

·    the database files invplus.mdb, invplus_Archive.mdb, and invplus_Backup.mdb

·    all miscellaneous files (mainly the *.std files, which contain the standard Crystal report formats)

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MAPPING THE

VER 9.7 ICON

 

Right-click the black and red v9.7 icon, then click “Properties” and “Shortcut”. 

 

The "TARGET" field is now highlighted.

 

You map the icon by editing the icon’s TARGET and START IN "fields.

 

In this example, the Target field would be: —>

 

“R:\Apps\invULTRA97.exe”

 

the START IN field would be:

 

“R:\Apps”

 

y Click “Apply” and "OK" buttons on the Properties page.

The v9.7 ULTRA icon of the local PC is now mapped to the SERVER PATH.

Click the ULTRA icon and you will see the Sign On Screen  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

z Setting Up OTHER PCs To Access ULTRA from the SERVER

 

For each PC you want to access the ULTRA program, you must:

 

  • Run the setup97.exe program on that PC and then

 

  • Remap that PC’s ULTRA icon to the server path (Step 4 above).

 

·        Sign on as system administrator (ID=1, PW=NOOSPHERE) and add a User ID, access rights,  and password for each user of that PC. See System Administrator functions

 

 

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