How do I Install OfficeTalk onto a Novell Network?
Before starting the OfficeTalk installation in a Netware environment if multiple Netware servers exist, a choice must be
made as to which network server will act as the 'OfficeTalk Server' (i.e. the machine on which the central OfficeTalk
database resides). This choice must be made as OfficeTalk does not support multiple servers in the current release.
This choice should be made based on the following considerations:-
Any network node requiring access to OfficeTalk must be able to connect to the machine designated as the OfficeTalk
Server.
It must have sufficient resources to hold the OfficeTalk database and meet the demands placed on it by the OfficeTalk
users.
Having chosen a suitable server (e.g. SERVER1) a decision must be made as to which network volume (e.g. ADMIN:)
and directory (e.g. \OTALK) the OfficeTalk database will be created in. This choice should be made based on the
following considerations:-
The OfficeTalk database must not reside in the root (top-level) directory of any volume however the OfficeTalk
directory can reside in the top-level.
Users must be given Read, Write, Create, Erase, Modify and File Scan rights to the directory in which the
OfficeTalk database resides and all of its subdirectories.
All machines requiring access to OfficeTalk must have a network mapping to the volume containing the
OfficeTalk database (e.g. DRIVE Q: =SERVER1\ADMIN: \OTALK).
Having made the above decisions you can now start the OfficeTalk installation procedure.
From a machine with a suitable network mapping perform the installation . Using the example we have demonstrated so
far the database path requested by the installation program would be Q:\OTALK. The executable path requested by
the installation program can be a different path to the database path if you wish to keep the OfficeTalk data files
separate to the OfficeTalk program files.
The next stage of installation must be performed on each of the machines that will be running OfficeTalk excluding the
machine used in step 6 above. Perform the network setup . The network setup will ask whether to copy the OfficeTalk
executables locally or run them from the server. It is recommended that the executables are run from the server as this
will greatly ease the upgrade process in the future.
OfficeTalk should now be installed and ready to use.