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Smart Client

Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD

Sharing Your Workstation

Use the Sharing command to start or stop sharing your workstation as the host server for your workgroup. The Sharing command is found in the Setup group on the Ribbon. This command:

• Is only enabled if the Installation Type is “Full”.
• Requires administrative permissions to use.

When deploying the Smart Client, the System Administrator uses the “Sharing” command to create the \\workgrpsvr\AIPROJECTS share to the LocalFileServerLocation\projects folder,for example:

“C:\users\public\archibus\projects\”.

Note: The “AIPROJECTS” share is just a convenient default for making the single user and workgroup setup easy. You can change this to any share name or file URL that you prefer by changing the Smart Client Drawing and Enterprise Graphics Folders in your Project Preferences.

When you launch the Smart Client as a full installation, your workstation is automatically shared.

Start Sharing

If you run the full installation, the installation will share the \public\users\archibus\projects folder. The installation will also set up your Project Preferences entries (in afm-projects.xml) to point the Smart Client Drawing folder and Enterprise Graphics folder to this shared folder.

This shared folder exposes only the access that remote clients need to install the Remote Smart Client on their desktops, to access CAD and BIM drawings and models, and to publish enterprise graphics.

If your workstation is not currently being shared, invoking the Sharing command starts sharing your workstation, so that peer workstations on the network can sign in to it as clients.

The Sharing command sets up your workstation as the workgroup host by creating a share name and setting the default application server and remote file server locations. By setting these preferences, this command eliminates the need for an administrator to set them on each workstation.

Once your workstation is shared, peer workstations on your local network can:

• Sign in to ARCHIBUS using the address below in their Smart-Client or Web browser.

  Remote Server Location:

  http:\thisworkstation:8080\archibus

• Access project files, such as drawing files, using the following Windows network share location in Windows Explorer:

  \\thisworkstation\archibus

  For example, if your workstation is named workgrpsrv, drawing files for the hq project would be found at:

  \\workgrpsvr\archibus\hq\projects\drawings\

Stop Sharing

If you invoke the Stop Sharing command when your workstation is being shared, the command removes this shared access and stops the sharing, so that workstations on the network can no longer sign in to it.

This action:

• Asks for confirmation that you want to stop sharing your workstation with client workstations.
• On confirmation, it makes the workstation a stand-alone single user station by setting the following preferences:
  • Share Name. Is deleted (per a “NET SHARE archibus /DELETE”).
  • Allow Sharing. is set to No.