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Setting up PTW on a Windows NT/98/95 server for workstations with IPX protocol

You have two options for installing and running PTW on a network:

1) Install PTW on each workstation and install the hardware key on a dedicated or non-dedicated file server which broadcasts the key throughout the network (preferable if you want each user to have his or her own set of Libraries);

(or)

2) Install PTW on a network drive and run it from each workstation using a shortcut to the network (preferable if you want everyone to use the same set of Libraries).

If you use option 2, you will need to copy these five TrueType font files from the server and add them using the Control Panel to every workstation: Pixextnb.ttf, Pixextn.ttf, Mtextra.ttf, Mtsymbol.ttf, and Fences.ttf. (The first two are used for load schedule reports and the last three are used by the on-line Reference Manual.) You can't just copy the font files to the \Fonts folder because Windows won't know they're there.

1) Plug the hardware key into the parallel port of the server. If the server is Windows NT, be sure to log on with Full Administrative Rights or the server won't allow you to perform the following actions.

2) Click the Start button, click the Run command, browse to the x:\Ptw32\Bin folder, click Open, and type:

Hinstall.exe -i

This loads the driver for the hardware key. (Note: If you haven't installed PTW on the server, you won't find the x:\Ptw32\Bin folder because it won't exist. To solve this, either install PTW so you can find the Hinstall.exe program, or download Hinstall.exe and the other network-related files from our download page--just click on "Network Drivers and Files.")

3) Copy Nhsrvw32.exe to a folder you can easily remember--we recommend putting it in the Windows\System folder.

4) Click the Start button, click the Run command, browse to the folder you put Nhsrvw32.exe in, click Open, and type:

Nhwrvw32.exe -ipx

This program broadcasts the key to the workstations, so it must be running anytime PTW will be used (the easiest solution is to just leave it running at all times).

Note: If your workstations will run PTW from the network server, you only need to perform the following steps on the network server. If your workstations will have PTW installed and run locally, you need to repeat these steps on each workstation which has PTW installed.

5) The following step asks you to run the Monitor.exe program. This program has its own Setup.exe program which you must run to install it. You will find this Setup.exe program in the Monitor folder on the PTW cd-rom. If you do not have access to the PTW cd-rom, you may download its installation files from our download page--click on "Monitor program." Run the Monitor.exe program and double-click the ipx protocol. In the box to the right, if the message "nhsrvw32..." appears, the NetHasp License Manager (and thus the hardware key) was found; if the message "No active NetHASP LMs using this protocol" appears, the NetHasp License Manager (and thus the hardware key) was not found.

6) Open the Nethasp.ini file (located in the x:\Ptw32\Bin folder) and find the [NH_COMMON] Section.

Note: Since Nethasp.ini is a text file, open it in a text editor (NotePad, which comes with Windows, works best because it does not insert extra characters into the file).

7) Be sure to ONLY unremark the line indicated. All other lines should still have semicolons in front of them.
Un-remark (that is, delete the two semicolons in front of) the line

;;NH_IPX = Enabled or Disabled

and delete the words or Disabled so that the line reads:

NH_IPX = Enabled

8) Find the [NH_IPX] Section and un-remark the line

;;NH_USE_BROADCAST=Enabled or Disabled

and delete the words Enabled or so that the line reads:

NH_USE_BROADCAST=Disabled

Save the Nethasp.ini file

9) Test whether PTW will run on the workstation. If it does not, check the Nethasp.ini file to ensure that only the line indicated has the semicolons removed, and that all the other lines still have semicolons in front of them.

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