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Typing Master 7.10

For version 7.00
Updated April 12, 2006
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Note! This FAQ contains only the topics related to the network installation and the organizational usage of product.

For the general TypingMaster topics, please read the End-User FAQ located here.

Please also read the TypingMaster Pro Network Installation Guide.

Setup Questions

Network Usage problems

Network Installation problems

Other questions

TypingMaster Manager has Integrated User Import Tool that is designed to create new users for TypingMaster User Manager from an existing list. Information such as name, group and password can be taken from any .csv file (i.e. comma separated user list file), usually an Excel or database file.

To access this feature, choose File/Import menu from Manager tool. Also Export feature is available there.

Free TypingMaster Study Material Editor is designed to help teachers, trainers and translators to modify the existing exercises in TypingMaster Pro. Make sure you choose to install Editor tool during the Setup.

You might want to prevent your users from Deleting files or modifying files in TypingMaster Database folder. Otherwise users can even delete the important study progress information from other users using the File Explorer.

In order to do this, you must set the File Security Permissions properly on your server:

1. Uncheck the option Inherit security.. (Win 2000) from the database folder

2. Remove the Change permissions, instead, grant only the Read and Write access for User Group: This removes the Delete right from your user group and the files cannot be deleted using Explorer.

Advanced tip: MAXIMUM security is possible when each user has a separate user account:
1. Grant Everyone for Read access to database folder
2. Choose advanced button and enable for Everyone also 'Create files or write data' advanced security option
3. Add new security user called: 'creator-owner' (choose from list)
4. For this creator-owner, choose Change access to database folder files.
NOTE: If you activate this advanced security, Manager cannot so easily create the user names.

This option can be used when the Centralized Management and User Reporting are not needed, but it is required that each student can continue their studyings from any workstation on the network. The advantage of this method is a high security, since only the corresponding user can access his/her study data while it is located in a personal home directory.

Follow these steps to setup the User Database into home directories:

1. Complete the workstation installation with Netsetup or using Stand-alone Setup to each workstation, or install TypingMaster into a shared folder on your file server.

2. Use Notepad or similar text editor to create a file TMNPATH.INI into TypingMaster folder (make sure the filename is not .INI.TXT), containing following data:

[Path]
DataPath=H:TMPRO

Replace the H: with a corresponding drive letter referring to the individual home directories.

3. To make sure that Typing Test texts appear properly, open file Policy.dyn located in your TypingMaster folder with Notepad, and set there name of the folder where texts should be loaded from:

CustomStoryPath=C:Program FilesTypingMasterTexts

4. Copy the following files/folders from TypingMaster folder into each users H:TMPRO folder:

Policy.dyn, 0.grp, tmaster7.net, DATABASE (folder)

NOTE: With this configuration, User Manager is not available for the reporting.

When students are trying to log into the TypingMaster, the error #1550 is displayed when the users do not have required change permissions (both read and write access) to the DATABASE folder. You can confirm if this is the case by testing if the program works OK when logged in as Administrator.

To fix the situation, make sure you have granted the Change-permissions to DATABASE folder after the installation according the section 2.2.3 in Network Installation Guide.

There is also an easy tool to apply the fix automatically under Windows 2000/XP.

When students are trying to log into the TypingMaster from the workstations, the error #7216 is displayed in the following cases:

* If the name of the File Server or shared UNC path (installation folder on the server) has been changed since NETSETUP was executed last time: Solution-> Re-execute NETSETUP to fix the situation (or update manually a new path into TMNPATH.INI located on the workstation).

* Maximum amount of Inbound Connections for your File Server has been reached. Note, that all Microsoft Windows Server products (Small Business/Advanced/NT/2000/XP) shall drop oldest client workstations to off-line when there are no more Windows Client Licenses (seat licenses or server licenses) left. Make sure that your Windows Server has all your licenses entered to it's License Manager. See Control Panel / Licensing for the amount of inserted licenses.

NOTE: If you are trying to use Workstation version of Microsoft Windows (e.g. Windows NT Workstation, 2000 Professional, XP Home or XP Professional) for the File Server purposes, please note that there is a major limitation in Windows: No more than 5-10 workstations can be connected into another workstation at a same time. You can read more about this here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q314882 and http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q122920

As all the networked applications, also TypingMaster requires that you have a real Windows Server product for File Server purposes. There is no legal way to use Windows Workstation as a File Server in network for more than 5 users.

When students are using software from the workstations and server suddenly drops the connection, TypingMaster shows error #-4000. Additional Win32 errorcode 6 tells that server cut the connection for some reason. Most common reason is that server has reached limit of Windows Client licenses and it does not allow e.g. more than 10 users to work at same time.

Check also if the problem exists on your LAN Network Cables: TypingMaster is quite exacting software from local area network point of view. The cables / hubs / switches / routers / network adapters must be fully working since software keeps several files open during a normal daily use.

If you have problems when creating new users and/or deleting users using TypingMaster Manager, e.g. when the following error message is always appearing when creating a new user: 'Entered user name is too similar to existing name XX'
The solution is to execute the TMDBFIX database analyzer to check and repair the possible corrupted database. This tool recovers both corrupted index files and .USR data files. The tool can be used also in read-only mode.

The TypingMaster Pro installation package has a few files containing long file names.
It is recommended to upgrade Netware server to support long file names.

However, to install the TypingMaster to the Netware server which does not support longer than DOS 8+3 file names, you can complete the following steps:

Install the TypingMaster Pro to any Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP workstation as server ins

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