VingCard Vision 4.1 Installation - 01

Overview of Installation

VingCard Vision can be installed on a single PC or on a system with several PCs connected together in a network. Vision can either use a dedicated network, or work over an existing network at the installation property.

In a networked system, all workstations use the same database. The PC that runs the database is referred to as the VingCard server. All other PCs are referred to as workstations. Each PC has access to its own locally connected devices and also to all of the networked encoders and printers.
Each PC in the network must have a unique identification.

Those identifications are the computer names as seen from the network. The computer names used by VingCard Vision are STATION_000, STATION_001, and so on up to STATION_099. The PC set up as the server is by default STATION_000, although the Vision installation program allows any computer to be set up as the server.

It is recommended that installation of VingCard Vision is carried out in the following order :

• Install and configure the network, first on the server then on each workstation.
• Install VingCard Vision first on the server then on each workstation.
• Set and Check network access rights and user permissions
• Install Microsoft ActiveSync on any PCs that will communicate with LockLink
• Enable automatic network logon if required (Windows NT / 2000 / XP only)
• Set up Vision sub-networks using vc_net.ini - if required (for example where two hotels, each with their own Vision installation share a common corporate network)