Enabling the Network

Part 1: Install Pathagoras.

If you have not already done so, install Pathagoras on each computer you intend to make part of the network.

Part 2: Activate the Network

1.In the 'Utilities/Settings' screen click the 'Networking Setup' tab. (Figure 1, below).

Figure 1. Network Setup

2.Click <Enable Network> (center of page toward the right).

3. When prompted, type into the pop-up screen the unlock code that you have been provided. Your unlock code was sent to you by separate correspondence. If you do not have it, write us and we will generate another code and send it to you.

Part 2: Establish a Mirror (former called Common Profiles) Path

Once you have enabled the network with the proper password, a new set of objects appear on the screen:

Figure 2. Network Setup Screen (after network has been enabled).

1.If you have already created a location for your Mirror Path, you can hand type its location in the white text box labeled Mirror Folder Location. If you manually type the Mirror Path, click the 'Save' disk that will appear when you begin typing and then skip to step 4 below.

2.If you have not hand-typed the Mirror Folder address, click the navigate button (with the three dots). Following the prompts, navigate to the folder that you want to be your Mirror Folder. If you have not previously created a folder to serve role, you can create one 'on the fly' as you are navigating to your ultimate destination.

3.When you have navigated to the desired folder, click OK.

4.When the Mirror Folder has been determined and selected, click the <Apply> button.

5.We suggest that you write down on a piece of paper the full path to the Mirror Folder. This will be for the benefit of those (including yourself) who will need to point to it later when you are setting up the other computers.

6.Click the button that will next appear called "Register." This sends your computers formal name to the Common Profiles Path, and registers you as an authorized user. Immediately after this step, Pathagoras will ask if you want to download any existing libraries and profiles to your local computer. If you have a 'mature' system, one in which libraries and other settings have been uploaded from a remote computer to the common profiles path, you typically should say "yes." Of course, you can say 'yes' even if this is a new system, but there will be nothing to download. (Saying 'yes' will cause any libraries which may have been uploaded by a user to the common profiles for sharing with others to be downloaded onto the 'current' computer, thus saving the time necessary to recreate that same library. See Network Files.)

Repeat the above steps for each computer on the network for which you have purchased a license. Of course, instead of creating a Common Profiles Path for the second and subsequent installations, you will simply navigate to the CPP. Hence, the piece of paper suggested in step 5 above.