4 Project permissions set up

In this chapter we will go step by step through the main procedures involved in the process of TRIBON Project set up. We will do this from the system administrator's point of view, concerning the project structure, files and directories placement and permissions, domain users and groups' accounts. Some of the projects environment variables might be used as examples only. However, the exact setup of all possible projects' parameters (environment variables) is not a subject of this document.

4.1 Client - Server environment

What we call client - server environment?

To have it, we need at least two computers connected each to other via local network or Internet. For any particular task we could define one of these computers to act as a server and the other one to be the client. In one large network group we might have as many possibilities as the number of the machines in the network is. When it comes to TRIBON software - we have no limitation. Actually any PC with TRIBON installation is ready to act as a server. Then we should consider its hardware resources, the version of the operating system and how that particular PC is used. Obviously the normal designer's workstation is not the best choice to use it for a server as it completely depends from the user who is working there. Of course it might be used for small workgroups, but for network with more than 5 PCs it is preferable to have one machine dedicated for server.

In this document we will consider the following client - server environment.

Server:

Windows 2000 server operating system used for: Primary Domain controller, DHCP, DNS file and print server.

Windows 2000 server operating system used for: Secondary domain controller and TRIBON Server ( TB Project server, TB DataBase Server, TB Surface Server).

TRIBON M1v4 complete installation has been made on this machine. However, in order to use it as a TRIBON server it is not necessary to install all TRIBON applications, but it is recommendable. When you have them all it is much easier to test the projects' setup and to perform different maintenance tasks when required comparing to the case when only the minimum set of services is installed. The host name of this machine will be " tbserver " so we could easy refer to it when necessary.

Clients:

Any PC with Windows 2000 Professional (Workstation) or Windows XP Professional (Workstation) and TRIBON software installation