In the information on this page [] is used to delimit optional items on command lines, the [ and ] should not appear in actual commands. Similarly ... is used to indicate items that may be repeated.
If a machine is loaded a pure client its local databases are inaccessible to other machines. If a machine is required to access datbases on other machines, and to allow access to its databases to other machines then it should be loaded as a Combined Client Server Machine.
Pure Client machines machines that do not act as servers are loaded as follows:
On Win32 Platforms:
[startup]On Windows CE Platforms:
[startup]
1=tcpw.wce -multiple
2=dp4srvr.wce -aux
3=auxdistr.wce -use n1 [-use n2 ...] [-nolocal] [resilience
option]
If you are using 4.525 and dbdaemon you would use the following [startup] section:
[startup]
1=tcp3 -multiple
2=srv3 -aux
3=auxdistr -use n1 [-use n2 ...] [-nolocal] [resilience
option]
On all platforms the −use command tail is specified one or more times and specifies the default set of servers used to access DP4 databases. This server list can be over-ridden on a per table or per database operation basis using the network resilience API. An alternative form of this option −mustuse n is available and designates a server as a "vital" machine as explained here.
See below for the use of the -nolocal option.
There are a number of resilience command tails, which control behaviour in the event of a network error. These are supplied to AUXDISTR (not the database manager as in local resilience). They are explained in the section on Network Error Handling. Without one of these command tails, programs will terminate if there is a network problem.
Obviously such a system is not as resilient as one with a local database.