FOR A NETWORK TO WORK AND CC3 TO WORK

1. WORKGROUP – Aside from CC3 all the computers have to talk to each other on the network – and the first problem that is faced is typically is to establish that all workstations are on the same Work Group.  All your workstations that are up and running are – otherwise it wouldn’t work.  But there is a good chance the “new” computer is not.  So – go to a good running workstation on the network now and rt-click on MyComputer and go to Properities – in there you will see the name of the “Work Group” all the computers on the network are on.  Often the name of the “Work Group” is actually something like “workgroup” (note no spaces).  On a typical computer at home it is often something like “Home”.

 

2. SET THE WORKGROUP – Now go to the new computer and do the same thing >>> MyComputer > Rt-Click Properties only this time if it dosn’t say the Work Group is the same as the Work Group from the other operational computer on the network from Step 1, then click on Change Settings and make the Work Group on that new workstation the same name as in step #1.  You will have to reset the workstation now.  “MyComputer” is sometimes known as just “Computer” and can either be found in the START BUTTON list or sometimes people have parked it on the Desktop.

 

3. SERVER DRIVE LETTER – Back on the first computer in step #1 – you must establish what drive letter your currently operational computers are using.  The easiest way to do that is just rt-click on the CC3 icon, go to Properties and see what it says for “Start In”, typically it’ll say something like “f:\cc3” which means your fileserver mapped drive is “f:”.  If Start In is blank, then look at Target, and it might say something like “f:\cc3\cc3.exe” – which again tells us the mapped drive is “f:”. 

 

4. FINDING OUT WHERE THE MAPPED LETTER GOES TO – Back on workstation #1, we now know the drive letter is something like “f:” or maybe “z:” – or whatver, but we know the letter.  To find out how it was mapped to the server we go back to rt-clicking on MyComputer on the #1 workstation and then go to “Map Network Drive”.  We just want to see where exactly “f:” is mapped to.  We see DRIVE there and we click on the down arrow key and that shows us in the list our drive “f:”, but more importantly it shows us what server it is mapped to just to the right of the f:, it will say something like \\server3\users.  Write that down, we will need that when we go back to the new computer.

 

5. MAPPING THE DRIVE LETTER – On the new computer now – rt-click on MyComputer and go to “Map Network Drive” – select the drive letter from #1 – for example f. and then in the folder type in the server path from #4 for example there we called it \\server3\users and then click FINISH and that should then establish that drive letter “f:” the same as all the other workstations.

 

6. BUILD THE SHORTCUT – With that Server drive letter established, rt-click on the Desktop > New  > ShortCut > Location of Item – enter there something like “f:\cc3\cc3.exe” and that should do it.   Obviously replace the f: here with the correct network drive letter for your network.