Managing SNAplus2 Clients
Managing Win32 Clients
This parameter is optional. The valid range is
The Registry data type of this value is REG_DWORD. Specify the time in seconds that an application waits while the Win32 client starts and tries to contact a server. Values between 0 and 300 are valid; values outside this range are forced into the range. The default value is 10 seconds.
This parameter can be used to control events when both the application and the Win32 client are configured to be started on system startup (either by being in the Startup Folder or by being an automatically started service). The application waits for the number of seconds specified in this field, to enable the Win32 client to get in first. In this way, the Win32 client can connect to a server to provide the resources required by the application, before the application fails due to the lack of those resources.
ServersThe Servers subkey contains information about SNAplus2 servers that the client can access, as follows:
Server1The Registry data type of this value is REG_SZ.
Enter an asterisk (*) or a server name:
•To indicate that the client should attempt to find a server running SNAplus2 by using a UDP broadcast message to all computers on its TCP/IP subnet (or on all subnets that it can access, if the client computer contains more than one LAN adapter card), specify *.
The client retries the broadcast every 10 seconds, up to the number of attempts specified by the broadcast_attempt_count parameter, until it contacts a server. If the limit specified by broadcast_attempt_count is reached before a
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