CTI installations

Using clients without installing

The simplest kind of set-up is the one that can be avoided altogether. To do this proceed as follows:

•Run the CTI server set-up program.

•The files required for set-up can be found in folder ..\Program files\TAPIMaster®\Setup. Share this directory to the network or copy the files contained there to a shared directory.

•If you have written your own client, copy it into the shared directory too. This method does, however, prevent the client from being able to use any ActiveX interface.

•Create a link to the standard client or to your client. The link should be well-defined in the network.

•E-mail the link to all users.

The clients can then be started without being installed. When first started, they will ask for the connection parameters. Clients generally store their settings locally. In this type of set-up, however, it makes sense for all clients to use a common configuration file. To this end, install a client locally and then copy its FCTICLNT.INI file from the Windows directory into the shared network directory. The clients will then use this file after start-up. Each client uses its own section of the file and different users on the same machine also use different sections. So the different users will not overwrite each other’s configuration. Here is an example FCTICLNT.INI file:

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