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Installing a Windows Network License
| 1. | Install your GraphPad program onto one computer on your network (we call this computer the server, but it can be any computer with a shared drive). Run the install program and choose a hard drive and folder. You must have admin rights to install software. Do not write-protect this folder yet. |
| 2. | Launch the program. The first time it runs, it will ask you for your serial number and network code, which you’ll find on your Registration Confirmation. This installation is for your entire network, so when the program asks for the user’s name and institution, enter your department or institution name rather an individual name. During its first launch, the program must be able to write into the program folder. |
| 3. | Share the Prism, InStat, or StatMate program folder. To do this, invoke the Properties dialog and choose "Share this folder" in the "Sharing" tab. Set the network permissions for the program folder, by clicking on the Permissions button in the "Sharing" tab and choose the appropriate check boxes in the "Permissions for ..." dialog. |
| 4. | The first time it runs on a network, Prism and StatMate (but not InStat) create a folder named "licenses" within the program folder. All users must be able to write into the licenses folder, so do not write-protect the licenses folder at any time. If you have NTFS file system, make sure that in the Security tab of the GraphPad program folder Properties, as well as "licenses" folder, you allow users and groups of users as appropriate. |
Write-protecting the program folders
You may wish to write protect the Prism or StatMate program folder. Since Windows will not allow an folder to have greater permissions than its parent folder, you will need to move the Licenses folder before write-protecting the Prism or StatMate folder. InStat puts the license files right in the program folder, so this folder cannot be write protected and it is not possible to relocate the InStat licenses folder.
To move the licenses folder for Prism or StatMate, follow these steps:
| 1. | Move the licenses folder to a location outside the Prism or StatMate folder. |
| 2. | Configure the properties of this new licenses folder to be shared and to allow "full access" from other computers. |
| 3. | Create a file named "licenses.txt" inside the Prism or StatMate program folder, and write into that file the name of the disk and folder of the licenses folder. This must refer to the server's hard drive. If that drive is mapped to a drive letter on your computer, enter something like K:\LicenseInfo\GraphPad. Otherwise, use a computer name and network name of the shared "licenses" folder, with syntax like \\[network_computer_name]\[network_name_of_licenses_folder]. For example, \\JoesDell\PrismLicenses |
| 4. | Write-protect the Prism or StatMate program folder |
GraphPad programs monitor the number of people using the program at any given time. If someone tries to launch the program, but all licenses are in use, the program won't start. Whenever this happens, the program (except InStat) adds a line to the file named "lockout.txt" with the date and time. Monitor this file to see if additional licenses are needed.
Running a GraphPad program from a workstation
Nothing needs to be installed on each workstation. You simply launch the application from its network location. We suggest that you use standard Windows techniques to create shortcuts that launch the prism.exe file. We suggest placing shortcuts for all GraphPad programs into a folder called "GraphPad Software" in the Programs folder.
You do not have to have admin rights to launch Prism from a workstation. But it helps a lot if you log in with admin rights at least once and launch Prism from each workstation. This lets Prism create some registry entries, which require admin rights. Without these registry entries, you won't be able to copy and paste graphs or layouts from Prism into other programs, and you won't be able to launch Prism using VBA commands (rarely used; see the last chapter of the Prism User's Guide).
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