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Installing the next client by sharing a single tslib.ini file among clients

Before you begin

Install the TSAPI Windows client on the first client computer.

About this task

Follow these steps if you want all of your clients to share a single copy of the tslib.ini file. Using these settings means that the local tslib.ini file on each client will direct the TSAPI Windows client library to obtain the host name or IP address of the AE Services Server from the shared TSLIB.INI file.

cautionCAUTION

This method allows you to maintain only one centrally-located configuration file and the drawback is that an outage of the file server where the configuration file resides could prevent all of your TSAPI clients from connecting to the AE Services Server.

Procedure

  1. Copy the client’s local TSLIB.INI file to the network file server, for example, h:\TSAPI\Client\sharedtslib.ini. Do not overwrite the TSLIB.INI file in the \TSAPI\Client folder containing the TSAPI Windows client installation software.
  2. Edit the [Shared Admin] section of the client’s local tslib.ini file to contain the full pathname of the shared TSLIB.INI file on the network file server. For example: tslib.ini=h:\TSAPI\Client\sharedtslib.ini (where h:\TSAPI\Client specifies the network drive and path to the tslib.ini file on your server).
  3. Now copy the client’s local TSLIB.INI file to the \TSAPI\Client directory on the network file server, overwriting the TSLIB.INI file in the directory that contains the TSAPI Windows client installation software.
  4. For next client installation and subsequent installations, from another client computer, go to the \TSAPI\Client directory on the network drive and double-click setup.exe to install the TSAPI Windows client. This time you do not have to complete the AE Services Server Configuration dialog box. Setup will install the updated TSLIB.INI file that points to the shared TSLIB.INI file.