WHOS-IN Pro - Admin Help

Add Server:

The Add Remote Server screen allows you to create links to remote WHOS-IN Pro databases located within your LAN or WAN* using a UNC path. (UNC = Universal Naming Convention).

* CAUTION * Connecting and displaying data from a remote server can be slow across a Wide Area Network, and we recommend that these remote links only be set up if you have a fast network (Megabits per second). Acceptable speeds are obtained via a LAN, DSL, Cable and Optical Fiber networks. We do not recommend links using either Modem or ISDN connections (they are simply too slow). Speed will also depend on how many users are connected, and what other Applications are running - transferring data across the Network.

To add a new Remote Server you can either enter the UNC path (Drive letter paths are not accepted) into the text box, or preferably, use the Browse Button to search your Network.

If you manually enter a UNC path that is incorrectly formatted, or there is no WHOS-IN Pro database at that location, an error message will appear asking you to correct it.

The preferred method of locating a remote database is to use the Browse button which will display the screen above (or one similar for older versions of Windows). You should begin by selecting the Network Neighborhood (or similar) item in the 'Look in or drop-down' section at the top of the screen. This will ensure that the final path to the destination database will be in UNC format. If you begin browsing at a folder, a drive letter or 'My Computer', the result of the browse will be a drive letter and path (e.g. W:\APPS\WHOS-IN\whosin.mdb). When you select the file and press OK the result will not be accepted (because it is not a UNC path).

Drill down from Network Neighborhood (or My Network Places) by selecting one of the servers, then select a folder and or sub folder until you locate the folder containing whosin.mdb. Select the file, choose the Open Button, and the resulting UNC path will be transferred to the Add Servers Screen.

Select OK. And the new server will be available to all the users (after they 'refresh' their screens).

NOTE: There is no 'Search' option available to scan for multiple databases on remote servers due to slow response times connecting to remote servers then scanning the entire drive looking for the database. See Auto-Sync (below) for a similar function.