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| <h1>RDT Server Installation on Windows</h1> |
| The following documentation explains how to install the Windows server code, |
| start the server daemon, and make a connection to a remote Windows server. |
| <a href="server_installation_unix.html">Look here</a> for setting |
| up a server on Linux, General UNIX or Mac. |
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| <p><b>Installing the server code</b></p> |
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| Choose a directory where you want to install the server code. |
| These instructions will use the <tt>C:/</tt> directory as an example, |
| but you are free to use any directory. |
| When the server archive file is expanded it will create a directory |
| named <tt>rdt-server</tt> in the location where it |
| is expanded. |
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| Find the package that contains the server. |
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| Copy the file <tt>rdt-server-windows-1.0.zip</tt> to |
| the <tt>C:\</tt> directory (this could be on a different machine). |
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| Use an unzip utility to extract the server code. |
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| <li>A directory named <tt>C:\rdt-server</tt> will be created that contains the server files.</li> |
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| <p><b>Starting the server</b></p> |
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| You can start the RDT communications server manually, or as a daemon. |
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| <p><b>To start the server as a daemon</b></p> |
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| Note that the server daemon does not enforce any user authentication. |
| If you run the server daemon, any user can connect to the machine, |
| work with the file system and run commands. <b>Use of the server daemon |
| on Windows systems is not recommended</b>. |
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| Simply double click the <tt>daemon.bat</tt> program to start a server daemon. |
| You can edit the <tt>daemon.bat</tt> file to change properties for the daemon, |
| like a specific daemon port to use or to force a port range for the server |
| (in order to comply with firewalls). |
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| The server daemon runs on port 4075 by default. You can pass the optional |
| daemonPort argument to force a different port if you want. |
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| If your daemon runs behind a firewall, you may want to specify the optional serverPortRange |
| argument to restrict selected server ports to the range given: |
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| <pre class="command">daemon.bat 4075 10000-10010</pre> |
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| <p><b>To start the server manually</b></p> |
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| Simply double click on the <tt>server.bat</tt> program to start the RDT server. |
| The server will pick the first port available and print the port number. |
| By default, it is usually 4033. You will then have to enter this port |
| number in port property for the Files subsystem for your connection in |
| the Remote System Explorer. |
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| For security reasons, the server will only wait a limited time until |
| a client connects (12000 seconds by default). |
| In order to start the server with an exactly specified |
| port or timeout, open a Windows command prompt and enter: |
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| <pre class="command"> |
| c: |
| cd \rdt-server |
| server.bat [port] [timeout] |
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| When you connect RDT to the server, the server will terminate as soon as |
| you disconnect the client. The daemon, however, will not terminate. |
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