This document describes the At Ease 5.0.1 Updater application, which updates At Ease for Workgroups version 5.0 software to version 5.0.1.
At Ease 5.0.1 Updater was released on February 18, 1998. This update requires At Ease for Workgroups version 5.0 software, which is part of the Apple Network Administrator Toolkit, version 2.0.
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Description:
This software updates At Ease for Workgroups version 5.0 software to version 5.0.1.
At Ease for Workgroups 5.0.1 provides these improvements:
The At Ease server now better handles multiple simultaneous connections.
At Ease prevents the system file on a workstation from being corrupted.
You can now use an AppleShare IP 5.0.2 Web server to allow users to access the At Ease server from the Internet. Compatibility issues have also been addressed with WebSTAR 2.1.
You can now run the At Ease Web services on the same computer as the At Ease server.
At Ease clients with AppleShare Client version 3.7 or greater installed now connect properly to AppleShare IP server volumes using TCP/IP.
Using MacOS 8.1 and Extended Disk Volumes
At Ease for Workgroups version 5.0.1 is compatible with Mac OS version 8.1 with the exception that the disk security feature, when used with extended disk volumes (also known as HFS+), will do nothing.
Running the At Ease Server and Web Server on the same computer:
At Ease 5.0.1 now allows you the option of running the web server on the same computer as your At Ease server.
You do this by installing the web server (or use the existing AppleShare IP 5.0.2 or later web service) on your At Ease server computer. You should also install the At Ease Web Agent extension on your server. Note that you must use version 5.0.1 of the At Ease Server extension, otherwise the At Ease web plug-in will not be able to locate the At Ease server. You will need to restart your server after installing this extension.
Next, run the At Ease Administration program and use the Configure Web Server menu command to locate your web server. You can also set other options at this time.
Finally, restart your server computer once more and run the web service.
Requirements for Updating
At Ease 5.0.1 Updater application only updates At Ease for Workgroups version 5.0 software, which is part of the Apple Network Administrator Toolkit, version 2.0.
IMPORTANT You cannot use the At Ease 5.0.1 Updater to update versions of At Ease for Workgroups older than version 5.0. If you have an older version of At Ease for Workgroups, you must obtain At Ease for Workgroups 5.0 and install it before you can use this Updater.
Updating At Ease for Workgroups
To use At Ease for Workgroups version 5.0.1, you need to update the At Ease software on the following computers:
any At Ease servers
your Web server, if you allow users to access the At Ease server from the Internet using a Web browser
all administrator and user workstations
The following sections describe how to update each of these computers
Updating Your At Ease Server
To update your At Ease server, you must replace the At Ease Server 5.0 extension on your server with this new version.. The Updater can not do this.
To update the At Ease Server extension, follow these steps:
1. On your server, open the Extensions Manager.
2. In the list of Extensions, locate the At Ease Server 5.0 extension and click to turn off the extension.
Note:
Doing this moves the At Ease Server 5.0 extension to the Extensions (Disabled) folder in the System Folder. You can drag the extension to the Trash later.
3. Locate your copy of the At Ease Server 5.0.1 extension (still called At Ease Server 5.0) and drag it to the System Folder on your server.
4. A dialog box appears telling you that the file needs to be placed in the Extensions folder. Click OK.
5. Restart your server.
Updating Your Web Server
If you allow users to access the At Ease server from the Internet using a Web browser, you need to replace two files on your Web server to work with At Ease version 5.0.1:
At Ease Web Helper
Web_At_Ease_PlugIn
The Updater can not update these files.
To update these files on your Web server, follow these steps:
1. On your Web server, locate the new files and drag them to the Web server plug-ins folder. In many cases the location of these files will be inside a folder called AtEaseWebPlugIn.
2. A dialog box appears asking if you want to replace the older files. Click OK.
In addition, users who access the server from the Internet using Mac OS computers, must use the new version of At Ease Web Helper. Make copies of At Ease Web Helper so that they can copy them to their computers. They also need to drag the old version of At Ease Web Helper to the Trash. (A copy of the At Ease Web Helper is also placed in the AtEaseWebPlugIn folder on the web server to allow users to download the file remotely.)
Updating Administrator and User Workstations
You can use the Updater program to update administrator and user workstations. When you use the Updater to update a workstation, it attempts to locate three files:
At Ease
At Ease Startup
At Ease
In most cases the Updater can find all of these files and updates them automatically. However, if it cannot find a file, a dialog box appears for you to locate the file. If you cannot locate the file, or if you know the file does not exist on the workstation, click Skip to bypass that file. For example, you may need to do this if you want to update just the At Ease Administration program on your workstation because it does not also have the workstation software installed on it.
If the Updater finds more than one copy of a file, a dialog box appears asking if you want to remove the extra copies. You must remove these extra copies before you can update the file. You can have the Updater remove the extra copies automatically, or you can cancel the update and remove the extra files yourself by dragging them from the Extensions folder in the System Folder. If you cancel the update, the Updater does not change any files.
There are three ways you can update At Ease for Workgroups 5.0 using the Updater:
· use Network Assistant (version 3.0 or later)
· from a floppy disk
· over the network
The following sections explain how to update the software using each method.
Using Network Assistant to Update At Ease for Workgroups
You can use Network Assistant (version 3.0 or later) to update the At Ease software on all the workstations on your network. If you use Network Assistant, you don't have to visit each workstation because you can be done everything from your administrator's workstation using the Network Assistant application.
Here are some important things to know before you start:
To use Network Assistant to update the software, the administrator and user workstations on your network must have the Network Assistant workstation software installed on them.
To update workstations using Network Assistant, these access privileges for the workstation must be selected in the Network Assistant Security window: "Allow administrators to," "Restart and shut down this workstation," "Copy items to this workstation," and "Delete and Replace items on this workstation."
To use Network Assistant to update the software, you must first update one workstation either from a floppy disk or over the network as described in the following sections. You'll probably find it most convenient to update your administrator workstation first, then update the other workstations from it.
On your administrator workstation, you must have installed both the At Ease administrator and user workstation software so that the Updater updates all the At Ease software.
To use Network Assistant to update At Ease for Workgroups, follow these steps:
1. Open the At Ease Administration application and turn off At Ease. Quit when you're finished.
Note:
Make sure that you are administering the At Ease server you want to do update. If it isn't, connect to the correct server as described in your At Ease for Workgroups documentation.
2. Update the At Ease software on your administrator workstation using the Updater program.
Note:
You can do this from a floppy disk or over the network as described in the next sections.
3. Open Network Assistant, enter your password, and click OK.
4. In the Workstation Status window hold down the shift key and and click to select each workstation which you want to update to At Ease 5.0.1.
Note:
If workstations that you need to update do not appear in the Workstation Status window, you need to add them to the list. (See your Network Assistant documentation.)
4. Choose Restart from the Manage menu.
5. In the dialog box that appears, click "Let users save their work" and then click Restart.
6. When the workstations have restarted, select them again in the Workstation Status window
7. Choose Copy Items from the Manage menu.
8. In the Copy Items dialog box, leave "name" selected in the first pop-up menu, choose "is" in the second pop-up menu, and type "At Ease" in the text box.
9. Click Find.
10. In the "Items found on" list, select "At Ease."
IMPORTANT:
If more than one "At Ease" item appears in the list, be sure that the one you select shows the following information at the bottom of the dialog box:
Kind is "system extension"
Location ends with ":System Folder:"
11. Be sure that "same relative location" is selected in the "Place items in" pop-up menu.
12. Click Copy.
13. A dialog box appears to warn you that the item already exists. Click Replace.
Network Assistant copies the "At Ease" file to the workstations you selected. Continue when Network Assistant finishes copying the file.
14. Change the text box in the Copy Items dialog box to "At Ease Startup."
15. Click Find.
16. In the "Items found on" list, select "At Ease Startup."
IMPORTANT If more than one "At Ease Startup" item appears in the list, be sure that the one you select shows the following information at the bottom of the dialog box:
Kind is "system extension"
Location ends with ":System Folder:Extensions:"
17. Be sure that "same relative location" is selected in the "Place items in" pop-up menu.
18. Click Copy.
19. A dialog box appears to warn you that the item already exists. Click Replace.
Note:
Network Assistant copies the "At Ease Startup" file to the workstations you selected. Continue when Network Assistant finishes copying the file.
20. Click Close Window to close the Copy Items dialog box.
21. Open At Ease Administration and turn on At Ease.
Note: Make sure that you are administering the At Ease server you want to do update. If it isn't, connect to the correct server as described in your At Ease for Workgroups documentation.
22. In Network Assistant, choose Restart from the Manage window.
23. Quit the Network Assistant application program.
Updating At Ease for Workgroups From a Floppy Disk
This section describes how to update workstations using the Updater application on a floppy disk.
Note:
To create a floppy disk of the At Ease 5.0.1 Updater application, locate the online image of the Updater and use the Disk Copy application to copy it to the floppy disk.
IMPORTANT Before you start, open At Ease Administration and turn off At Ease.
To update At Ease from a floppy disk, follow these steps on each At Ease administrator and user workstation:
1. Restart the workstation. The Finder will appear instead of At Ease.
2. Insert the floppy disk containing the Updater application.
3. Double-click the At Ease 5.0.1 Updater application to open it.
4. Click Begin.
The Updater performs the update unless it cannot locate a file or it locates extra copies of a file.
If the Updater cannot find a file to update, a message appears asking you to locate the file. Do one of the following:
Locate the missing files and start the update again.
If you cannot find the At Ease or At Ease Startup files and you want to continue the update, click Skip.
If you want to stop the update, click Cancel.
If the Updater application locates extra copies of a file, a message appears asking you to remove the files. Do one of the following:
Click to have the Updater remove the files.
Cancel the update so that you can remove them.
IMPORTANT:
You must remove the files to use the Updater.
5. When you have updated all the administrator and user workstations on your network, open At Ease Administration and turn on At Ease.
6. Restart each workstation. At Ease will appear.
Updating At Ease for Workgroups Over the Network
This section describes how to update At Ease for Workgroups over a network.
First, perform the following steps on an administrator workstation:
1. Copy the Updater application to an AppleShare server volume to which your At Ease workstations have access.
2. Make sure the Updater application is locked.
To do this, select the Updater's icon in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, then click to put an X in the checkbox labeled "Locked."
3. Open At Ease Administration and turn off At Ease.
To update a workstation, follow these steps:
1. Restart the workstation.
The Finder will appear instead of At Ease.
2. Mount the server volume that contains the Updater application and locate it.
3. Double-click the Updater application to open it.
4. Click Begin.
The Updater performs the update unless it cannot locate a file or it locates extra copies of a file.
If the Updater cannot find a file to update, a message appears asking you to locate the file. Do one of the following:
Locate the missing files and start the update again.
If you cannot find the At Ease or At Ease Startup files and you want to continue the update, click Skip.
If you want to stop the update, click Cancel.
If the Updater application locates extra copies of a file, a message appears asking you to remove the files. Do one of the following:
Click to have the Updater remove the files.
Cancel the update so that you can remove them.
IMPORTANT:
You must remove the files to use the Updater.
5. When you have updated all the administrator and user workstations on your network, open At Ease Administration and turn on At Ease.