Server Preferences

To open the server options dialog click the 'Server Options' link as shown in fig1.0 above. This will launch a dialog box, see example below.

Fig 2.0: Server Preferences

There are two sections to this dialog box.

The first (top part) is used to assign an IP address and port number for the MyConnection Server to use for its browser interface. The drop down menu provides a list of all the IP's found on the install platform. Select the IP to be assigned and enter a port number default 80.

The check box just below, if checked, allows MyConnection Server to allocate a different port number if the one chosen is not available.

The second section (bottom part) provides a convenient method for automatically installing MyConnection Server as a Windows service. Note clicking the service 'Install ' button will initially install MyConnection Server as a service but not start the service because MyConnection Server is currently already running. MyConnection Server will start as a service on the next reboot.

If you would like to start MyConnection Server service you will need to close the existing running application and do the following

1. Right click on the My Computer desktop icon
2. Choose 'Manage'
3. In the left hand tree diagram expand the 'Services and Applications' section and choose 'Services'.
4. Scroll down the 'Visualware's MyConnection Server' in the right hand pane
5. Right click on it and choose 'Start'
6. The MyConnection Server main panel display unless you are running under Windows Terminal Services. To see the main application server panel under Windows Terminal Services (WTS) you must start using the ‘-console' switch from the DOS command line. Example: 'mstsc –console'