Installing Seminar-On-A-Disk on a Network

1.) Installation
To install Seminar-On-A-Disk to a network, simply follow the directions and change the destination directory to reflect the location of the network drive.

2.) Setting network rights
You must be the network administrator or have those rights during the installation. The installation process will create subdirectories under the destination directory specified in the setup program. There are two subdirectories that need to have Read, Write, Create, Modify and Erase rights. One of the subdirectories is \userdata which is located at: (network drive) :\ (destination directory) \ (name of the Seminar-On-A-Disk) \userdata\ the other is a subdirectory of your Windows directory called \A3W_DATA If these subdirectories do not receive those rights, the Seminar-On-A-Disk will not run properly.

3.) Creating Icons using Windows 3.1
The program group and icons will be created on the station that was used to install the program to the server, but not on any other stations. To create more icons, first you need to define its properties. To do that, single-click the icon for the Seminar-On-A-Disk, then click on File, then on Properties. Write down EXACTLY the command line and working directory (the command line will call two separate programs so it is important to make sure you write down the full command line to include both programs). Next you need to go to a station that you want to have an icon available to use. Once you are in Program Manager, click File, then click New, then click Program Group, and then click OK. Name this Program Group ISI. Next click inside the Program Group called ISI (the one that you just created) so that it is the active group. Now click File, then click New, then click Program Item, and then click OK. The Description should be the name of the Seminar-On-A-Disk and then fill in the command line and working directory just as you wrote it down from the station used to install the program. Once you are sure that there aren't any typos, click OK. Double-click the icon to verify that the icons work and then repeat this procedure on the rest of the stations you want to have access to the Seminar-On-A-Disk.

4.) Creating Icons using Windows 95
The program group and icons will be created on the station that was used to install the program to the server, but not on any other stations. To create more icons, first you need to define its properties. To do that, right-click the Start menu button, then click on Explore. Once you open Explorer, open the Windows folder then open then Start Menu folder, then open the Programs folder, and then open the ISI folder. In that ISI folder you should have shortcuts to the Seminar-On-A-Disk. Right-click the shortcut so that it opens a menu box and select properties. That will open up a properties window for that shortcut. Click on the Shortcut tab at the top of the box. Write down the Target line (chances are that the entire line will not fit in the box so you may need to click on it and scroll side to side to view the entire target line) EXACTLY. The shortcut will call two separate programs to execute so it is important that you write down all of the Target line to include both programs. Once you have written down the target line you can close all of the windows you just opened. Now you can right-click the Start menu button again and this time select Open. Next double-click on the Programs folder, click File, then click New, and then click Folder. A new folder will be created and your cursor should be blinking in the description box of that folder. Go ahead and type in Seminar-On-A-Disk as the name of the folder. Double-click the Seminar-On-A-Disk folder to open it and then in the Seminar-On-A-Disk folder window, click File, click New, and then click Shortcut. A window will be opened with a command line box. Type the information from the Target line into the command line EXACTLY. Click OK, and then double-click the icon to make sure that it works properly. Repeat this process on all the stations you want to have access to the Seminar-On-A-Disk.

  • Launching the Seminar-On-A-Disk will only work if you use an icon as it needs to call two programs at the same time to run properly.
  • It is also acceptable to give the rights (read, write, create, modify and erase), to the SOD directory. This will flow down to cover all subdirectories within the SOD directory. 

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