Welcome to Readerware Client/Server Edition Release 2.984
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Readerware now offers support for multiple users in the new
Readerware Client/Server edition.  This document describes
how you setup the Readerware server and how to configure
your clients to access the server.


Installation
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The Readerware server is installed as part of the standard
Readerware installation and a shortcut was added to your
Start menu.


Starting the Server
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Before you start the server you must create your Readerware
database.  To create a new database, start the Readerware
2.0 client, select the new database item from the file menu,
select the name and location of your database and click on
Create.

The database needs to be accessible to all users so that the
book images can be accessed, so create your database
somewhere that is accessible to all your users.

If you want to use an existing database, you can.  Just make
sure that you open any Readerware 1.x database with
Readerware 2.0 first so that the database is converted to
the new 2.x format.

Make sure that your Readerware client is closed.  There must
not be anyone accessing the database when you start the
server.

To start the Readerware server, just launch it from your
start menu or double click on the program, it is called
rwserver.exe.  It will open a small console window.  You
must open the database from the server console file menu so
that the server knows which database to access.  This
database will be remembered and automatically opened next
time you start the Readerware server.  If you ever need to
change databases, select the reset item from the File menu.

Readerware should now display a server started message.
That's all there is to it, your Readerware server is now
running.


Configuring your clients
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Start the normal Readerware client on any machine, even the
same machine as the server.  You might get an error when
Readerware opens the database if the last accessed database
is now the one used by the server.  Just click OK, and
Readerware will open with an empty database.

Select preferences from the Readerware edit menu.  Click on
the database tab.  Click on the remote database radio
button.  Click OK to close the preferences dialog.
Readerware is now setup to use a remote server.

Select the open database option from the file menu.  Now you
will see the database connection dialog.  Enter the name of
the machine where the Readerware server is running.  Click
on the browse button and select the database the server is
using.  Although Readerware will access the database via the
server, it still needs to know where the database is so it
can access the images.  You must select the database on the
remote machine.  As mentioned earlier the database needs to
be stored where all users can access it.

Click on OK, Readerware will now load the remote database.
Next time you start Readerware it will automatically connect
to the server so you only have to configure the client once.
Repeat this configuration on all your clients.

There are no other differences in the Client/Server edition
of Readerware so continue to use the product as normal.


Problems
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Please report all problems to support@readerware.com.

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