Q: Will LandView III run on a network?
A: LandView III was designed as a single-user CDROM-based system although under some circumstances it is possible to run the software on a network. The following procedure provides the details of setting up LandView on your respective network. We cannot guarantee that LandView will work on your particular network nor will we provide technical support in resolving any problems you may encounter.
We recommend that each LandView user install the system to their own hard drive. The installed files take up about 10 megabytes. The data and maps can then be accessed from their own CDROM, or from a network file server.
Network Installation
The simplest approach for network operation of LandView is to provide access to the LandView CDs over a network. Users should be able to see each LandView CD as separate drive letter on the network. They would therefore not need a LandView CD in their own CDROM drive. Please note that the LandView software was designed for a single-user system that presumes the map files are stored on a the local CD-ROM drive. .For this reason, the program produces an error message if the CDROM drive is empty. We recommend that if a LandView network user has a CDROM drive on their computer, they must have a disk loaded in that drive (any CD will suffice; it does not have to be a LandView CD).
Another method for accessing LandView data and maps over the network is to copy the following directories from a LandView CD to a file server hard drive: DATA, MAPS, and any numeric directories at the root of the CD (examples: 06, 24, 47). You must also create a new text file in the CDMAPS directory of each user's installed system. The CDMAPS directory contains a text file for each LandView CD, describing the location of the maps on that CD. You must create a text file that describes the location of maps on your file server. If, for example, you were putting LandView CD #1 on your file server, you would use the text file LV3CDM01.TXT as a model, save it with another name (such as NEWLV301.TXT), and modify the file as follows: The first line of this file is the volume label of the CD. Change that to the volume label of the file server drive. If the DATA, MAPS, and numeric directories are put at the root of your file server drive, then no additional changes are necessary. If they are placed in a subdirectory, then you must make changes to all of the MAP designations in the file. Around line 50 of the text file starts the MAPS section, listing the path to each map. For example, the path to the first map in LV3CDM01.TXT is \09\001. This must be changed to the path on your file server. If you placed the LV directories in a subdirectory named \APPS\LANDVIEW, then the full path would be \APPS\LANDVIEW\09\001. This change would have to be made for each map reference in the file.
In order to copy LandView data and maps to a file server hard drive from more than one LandView CD, you must take the DATA and MAPS directories from LandView CD #11, and the numeric directories from disks 1-10, as needed (each numeric directory corresponds to a particular State. If you are not sure which numeric codes correspond to the states you want, look at the file STATES.DBF in the DATA\CENSUS directory for a listing of state codes and names). Use LV3CDM11.TXT as the model for your text file in the CDMAPS directory of each user's installed system. Remove the map references for Delaware, DC, and Virginia, and insert the appropriate information for the states of your choice from the text files for CDs 1-10. Then make the path changes, if needed, as described above.
