
Introduction
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i!-Database Plus and DBWizard
Setup
NetLinxDBInclude.asp and NetLinxDBInclude.axi work in conjunction with your code to allow
access to a PC database. In order to use these two files, you will need the following:
A PC running a Microsoft Windows
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operating system such as Windows 95, Window 98,
Windows NT Workstation, Windows NT Server, Windows 2000 Workstation or
Windows 2000 Server.
A Web server. You can use Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) or Microsoft
Personal Web Server (PWS). Either is available for all operating systems listed above.
A NetLinx Master with Ethernet
You must have IIS or PWS installed and running ASP (Active Server Pages) before beginning.
Make sure there were no errors during the installation of the web server, and you can call up an
ASP file (any file ending in .ASP). If you get a
500 Internal Server Error
message when trying to
view ASP pages in a web browser, the web server is not installed properly. You must correct this
problem before proceeding.
Once the server PC is setup, make sure both the server PC and the NetLinx Master are connected to
a network and can communicate with each other. A simple way to test connectivity is by using the
PING program from the server PC's command line. Type
Ping <ip address of the NetLinx
Master>
and you should see something like the following:
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>ping 192.168.13.33
Pinging 192.168.13.33 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.13.33: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=62
Reply from 192.168.13.33: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=62
Reply from 192.168.13.33: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=62
Reply from 192.168.13.33: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=62
Ping statistics for 192.168.13.33: Packets:
Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 1ms, Average = 0ms
C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>
Now that your hardware is configured, you are ready to begin programming.