Connecting to the Server Software

The end user connects to the server software by logging in from the client application. To login an end user needs the following information from you:

• Computer name or IP address. When ends users connect to the server software, they log in from the client application. To do that, they need to correctly specify the name of the computer running the server software. The server computer can be identified by an alphanumeric name (for example, myserver) or an IP address assigned to the server computer (for example, 202.123.456.78)—whichever you prefer. If you configure the server and client desktop computers to use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), the end user must use a fully-qualified domain name (e.g., myserver.mycompany.com).
• Port number. End users need to correctly specify the port on which the server software is listening for connections. The port number is the default for the server, or whatever you specified when you configured the server software.
• Domain name (Windows only). End users may also need to specify a domain name. A domain name is required only when the server computer is in a different domain than the end-user desktop computers.
• User ID and password. End users are required to log in to the server computer. To do this, the users need a valid account, with appropriate permissions, for the computer on which the server software is running.
• Secure Socket Layer (SSL). If you use SSL to encrypt the communications that occur when end users to connect to the server software, tell the users to enable SSL when they set up the server connection. The clients do not need to know which SSL protocol is being used by the server. The client software will try both and use the one that works.