Installing WordPerfect On A Banyan Network

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Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:29:29 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

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Solutions: Step 1: Login to the network as Administrator. If you are not the network administrator, make sure that the person in charge of the network has given you full supervisory rights. This is necessary for WordPerfect to be installed on the network properly. Objective: This gives the installer all rights, which allows him to create directories and add files to those directories. Procedures: Logging In 1. Turn the PC power on. 2. When the system prompts you for a login name, type your user name. 3. When the system prompts you for a password, type your password. If you have no password, or if this is the first time you are logging in, press Enter. VINES displays the various network resources that are activated during your login. The login procedure is complete when you see a drive designator such as E:\> Step 2: Enter the installation program. Objective: The installation program creates appropriate directories and puts WordPerfect on the network. Procedures: 1. Insert the Install/Learn/Utilities disk in the A: drive and type A:INSTALL. 2. Choose Yes to Continue and Yes to Installing To A Hard Drive. 3. Choose 3 for Network Installation. 4. Choose 2 for Install Files To. Enter the network drive letter and directory path where you want the WordPerfect files installed to (e.g., F:\APPS\WP51). Also enter any subdirectories that you want created. 5. Press 9 for Exit, and then 3 for Install Disks. Follow the prompts provided by the installation program. Step 3: WordPerfect will then ask you if you want it to check your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files and then tell you if changes are necessary. Objective: The CONFIG.SYS file contains information about your system configuration. You should have approximately 40 file handles (i.e., FILES=40) in the CONFIG.SYS file to run WordPerfect on a network. The AUTOEXEC.BAT file contains a "batch" of commands that are automatically executed each time you start your computer. If you let WordPerfect modify this file it will add it to the path. This allows WordPerfect to be run from any directory. Procedures: This procedure must be done in each user's individual AUTOEXEC.BAT file. If changes were made to the CONFIG.SYS file, you will need to reboot your machine so that the changes will be read into the system configuration of your computer. Step 4: WordPerfect will next ask you if you want it to check the WP environment file for you. Let WP create the environment file. Procedures: Choose /NT=2 and /PS=F:\APPS\WP51\SETUP (NOTE: This drive and directory is an example. This can be any drive letter with any subdirectory name for the .SET files.) Objective: The environment file is a DOS text file that tells WordPerfect which network you are using and the location of the user Setup files. This file is placed in the directory where the WP.EXE file is located. (NOTE: The user setup files are the files that hold each user's individual settings. When a user enters WP for the first time, he receives a copy of the master .SET file (WP{WP}.SET). WP creates a .SET file with the user's initials. This file is placed in the directory that was specified in the WP environment file. Step 5: Continue with the installation of the program. Procedures: 1. The installation program will prompt you to insert the Printer 1 master diskette. This will give you a list of printers supported by WordPerfect. 2. Choose all printers that are available to the users on the network. Step 6: After installation is complete, make sure that the file attributes in the WordPerfect directory for the .EXE files are Shareable and Execute-Only. Objective: The purpose of this is to protect the program files from becoming damaged and to keep users from accidentally overwriting these important files. Procedures: This is accomplished by entering the SETATTR utility. For the WP51 directory, set the following attributes: Syntax: SETATTR +S+E[*.EXE] Step 7: Set up directory rights on the network using the SETARL utility. For the WP51 directory, the rights should be set to R for Read Access-Only. In the setup directory, the users should be given R for Read, C for Control, and M for Modify Access. Procedures: Enter SETARL followed by the path name of the directory you want to set the attributes in, for example, SETARL F:\APPS\WP51,R. Step 8: To set up a printer, the user must set up the port for each network printer. The default is LPT1. Procedures: To set up the printer on the network, the user must use the SETPRINT utility. The following is an example of the syntax: SETPRINT LPT1 ON /P:"item@group@organization" Step 9: If the users are not starting WordPerfect from a directory where they have full rights on the network, they will have to use the /D startup option to redirect the virtual files to a location where the user does have full rights, for example, WP/D-J:\USERS\HOMER. This can also be accomplished by putting this same command in the user's AUTOEXEC.BAT file, for example, SET WP=/D-J:\USERS\HOMER. If the users do not want to be prompted for user initials each time they enter WordPerfect, they can use the /U option. This can also be set in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file. An example of the syntax is as follows: SET WP=/U-XXX/D-J:\USERS\HOMER, where xxx is the user's initials. For more information, please refer to the reference manual under Network Administration. Other Banyan VINES notes: Volumes on Banyan are similar to Novell. You can have several volumes on one network drive. You must name each volume on the network in "StreetTalk." StreetTalk is a utility where all users and services such as printers, volumes, etc., must be named. StreetTalk names must consist of three items: Item Name, Group Name, and Organization Name. The SETDRIVE utility is similar to drive mapping in Novell. Please refer to the Banyan VINES documentation for more detailed information about the Banyan VINES commands mentioned in this memo. *This information is given as a troubleshooting option.

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