Network Edition Setup

Network Edition Setup

 

Please follow those instructions carefully :

 

1. Install the Vehicle Fleet Manager programme (www.vinitysoft.com/VFM/VFM22.exe) on the computer which will be your database server. The database server can be any computer on your local network.

2. Install the Firebird component on your database server (www.vinitysoft.com/VFM/NetworkVFM.exe). IMPORTANT!: the installer programme will ask you where you want to install the Firebird programme and will then ask you where you want to install the database. The Firebird programme needs to be installed on the same drive as the database itself.

3. Activate your server. To do this send us your server identification code and we will send you the corresponding activation code. To obtain your identification code you need to click on "Activate now" in the Vehicle Fleet Manager (trial version) start up window.

4. Make sure that the GESTIONFLOTTE.FDB database file is in your server’s "C:\Program Files\Vehicle Fleet Manager Data" folder (or the folder specified during database installation). If the "Program Files" folder on your server is not on the C drive then search for it on the appropriate drive (for example: "M:\Program Files\Vehicle Fleet Manager Data"). This path will be the one that you will need to set up on your client workstation at the next stage.

5. Open Vehicle Fleet Manager on your server and go to menu "Options - Personnalize". Replace the name of the database server for the server name. If you do not know the name of the database server then, right-click on “Workstation”, choose "Properties" and select the “Computer name” tab.

6. Go to a client workstation. Install Vehicle Fleet Manager (www.vinitysoft.com/VFM/VFM22.exe), launch the application and click on the "Options - Database connection information” menu and enter your server name in the appropriate box. If you do not know the name of the database server then go to your server, right-click on “Workstation”, choose "Properties" and select the “Computer name” tab.

7. On the workstation enter the server database path at the appropriate place (for example: "C:\Program Files\Vehicle Fleet Manager Data").

8. Close the Vehicle Fleet Manager application on your client workstation and restart it. The programme should automatically connect to the database. If it doesn’t work it is probably because the database path is incorrect. If these parameters are correct your server probably has a firewall. Most computers have a firewall. If so, you need to deactivate it or set up a firewall exception. You need to set up a firewall exception for the following programme file: "C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_0\fbserver.exe". To add a firewall exception (with Windows XP), go to "Start - Control Panel - Firewall". Click on add programme in the "Exceptions" tab, click on browse and choose the following file: "C:\Program Files\Firebird\Firebird_2_0\Bin\fbserver.exe"