WinTrac™ 5.X

Chapter 2Installing your WinTrac 5 SoftwareChapter 2Installing your WinTrac 5 SoftwareThis section describes how to install your WinTrac 5 software. WinTrac 5 is installed from the installation CD.You may also wish to install WinTrac 5 on a network. Each of these methods is described below.Installing WinTrac 5 from CDTo install from CD, place your CD copy of WinTrac 5 into your CD-ROM drive and run D:\SETUP.EXE (whereD: is your CD-ROM drive). Simply follow the instructions on-screen to install WinTrac 5 on your system.Note: You should close down all running applications before installing WinTrac 5 software. This includesMicrosoft Office Toolbar, which may be running in the background.Installing WinTrac 5 on a NetworkIt is possible to install WinTrac 5 such that the database and data files are stored in a shared directory on aserver.To setup this configuration:Install WinTrac 5 on each client PC that will need access to the WinTrac files.Make a directory on the server which will contain the database and files (e.g. X:\WinTrac). Ensure that usershave read, write and delete access to this directory.Copy all files and subdirectories from the WinTrac\TemplateDB directory on a client PC to the shareddirectory.On each client, configure WinTrac 5 to use the central database as described in Chapter 2.Note that each user running WinTrac 5 will need full read, write, create and delete access to the shareddirectory on the server.4