For shared access of HCM you can install HCM in a LAN environment.
This has several advantages.
When you keep the HCM product folder on a LAN disk, all HCM users
are using the same service level of HCM and a service update has only
to be installed once.
When you run HCM in a LAN environment, consider the following:
- The installation utility of HCM creates an entry in the Start menu of the PC from which HCM has been installed. If
you want to use HCM from the LAN resource on a different PC, you must
create an icon on your desktop or in your Start menu
to work with HCM.
- If a controlled exit occurs, or if some logging mechanism
is activated for debugging purposes, HCM writes some log files to
the installation folder. If in your environment the HCM installation
folder on the LAN is write protected, the log files could not be created.
Additionally, if you want each LAN user to keep own log files, you
can specify a folder other than the default one, using the ERRLOGDIR
parameter in the [HCM] section of the EEQHCM.INI file. See The HCMERR.LOG PC file for more information about the error log file.
- As the installation utility keeps some data locally on the workstation
from which HCM is installed, it is recommended that the HCM program
on the LAN is only deleted and updated by the PC from which it has
been installed originally.