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     QuickField 4.3
     NetLicence.txt file
     (c) Copyright Tera Analysis Ltd., 2001
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CONTENTS
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1.  What is the Network License?
2.  The Hardware Protection Key
3.  The NetSentinel Security Server
4.  Installation Notes
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1.   What is the Network License?
  
The network license allows QuickField to be used on several
networked computers. These sessions are controlled by the
Security Server, which has to be started on one of the computers
on the same local area network. Your License Agreement regulates
the maximum number of workstations for which QuickField sessions
can be run simultaneously. Any number of QuickField sessions
that run on the same workstation share a single license.
When you run QuickField at a new workstation, the request for a
new license is sent to the Security Server. If there are free
licenses available – the license will be granted to the
requesting workstation, and the QuickField session will be
activated. If the number of granted licenses has reached the
maximum, and if there are no workstations with idle times
greater than 10 minutes, the QuickField session at this new
workstation will not be activated. After a QuickField session is
finished, its license returns to the Security server, which
allows a new QuickField session to be started at another
workstation.
While running, QuickField continually communicates with the
Security Server. If you stop using QuickField for 10 minutes but
do not close it, and a new request for a license is received by
the Security Server, the license assigned to your workstation
will be returned to the server and granted to the new
workstation. The same is applicable if some problem occurred
(QuickField crashed, the workstation hung up, the network went
down etc.)

2.   The Hardware Protection Key
  
A hardware protection key is a small electronic device that
contains vital confidential information about your copy of
QuickField. It should be attached to the parallel port on a 100%
IBM PC compatible computer.
There are two different kinds of keys: local and network. A
single-user version of QuickField comes with a local key. The
number of local keys exactly matches the number of licenses that
you purchased. Each local key should be attached to the computer
on which QuickField runs.
A network-licensed package is shipped with only one network key.
The network key should be attached to one of the networked
computers that acts as the Security Server. The special program
- NetSentinel™ Security Server, from Rainbow Technologies Inc.,
should be installed and run on this computer. When started,
QuickField first tries to find a local hardware key attached to
the parallel port. If a local key is found, QuickField works as
a local application, it does not consume a network license and
does not communicate with the Security Server.
If a local key is not found, QuickField searches the local
network for the Security Server. If a local key is found,
QuickField checks the corresponding hardware key. If the key is
correct and if there is a license available -QuickField keeps
running, otherwise an error message is displayed.

3.   The NetSentinel Security Server
  
The NetSentinel Security Server is a software application that
runs on any workstation on the network. It tracks the granting
and returning of available licenses and communicates with the
hardware key and with workstations.
NetSentinel Security Server is available for various software
platforms.
In the QuickField disk, you can Security Servers for:
·    Win32 platform (including Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows
     NT 4.0 and Windows 2000);
·    Novell NetWare file server
·    OS/2.
If your security server works under Windows 95/98/NT/2000, you
can also use it as a workstation for running QuickField.
On Windows NT/2000 computers, you can install the NetSentinel
Security Server as an NT service. In this case, the Security
Server should be started automatically at boot time and kept
running when no users are logged in.

4.   Installation Notes
  
In comparison to the previous release, the QuickField 4.3
Setup program provides two additional dialog windows. One of
them asks whether you have purchased a single or a network
license. If you choose “Network”, the second dialog window asks
you about the role of the computer on which you are installing
QuickField. The possible answers are: workstation, security
server, or both.
If the computer acts as a workstation, the QuickField package
will be installed. If you intend to use the computer as a
security server, the NetSentinel server software will be copied
on your hard disk in the Sentinel Security Server directory (for
example
"c:\Program Files\QuickField\Sentinel Security Server\"). You
can start the NetSentinel server using the corresponding icon in
Start->Programs->Security Server.
The QuickField setup program cannot install the non-Windows
version of NetSentinel server. If you plan on using a Novel
NetWare file server or an OS/2 machine as a security server,
please read the ReadMe.txt file in the Sentinel Security Server
folder and follow the instructions provided by Rainbow
Technologies Inc.
If you answer “Both” in the second dialog window, both
QuickField and NetSentinel software will be installed.
