Networking VoxPro v4.x workstations is totally automatic and pain free. How simple is it? Put two or more computers running VoxPro on your station's Lan and they automatically find each other, swap information and connect, allowing users to access their password protected accounts from those workstations.

You may configure VoxPro to operate in standalone mode, as though there were no other VoxPro workstations on your LAN. You may also be selective in determining which remote VoxPro workstations will be allowed to share accounts with the computer you are working on. By this mechanism, clusters of VoxPro workstations belonging to one station can be logically separated from those belonging to a different station while keeping everyone on the same LAN.

Auto-Network Details:  How VoxPro operates in a multi-user multi-workstation environment

Administrators will love Auto-Network because it allows you to network all of your VoxPro machines without any setup or configuration. In fact, the only configuration required is if you do NOT want the VoxPro workstation to have network access, or if you want to restrict access to only a few other VoxPro workstations.  The VoxPro network allows any user to login to his/her personal account from any VoxPro workstation on the LAN, and access (play/edit/record) files from that workstation.

User accounts may be created anywhere on your LAN. Most administrators create user accounts on the on-air machine, simply as an added safety measure (your files are still there if the LAN or server goes down, and there is no possibility of network latency when you hit the "Play" button). However, nothing prevents you from putting user accounts (i.e. audio files) on a remote server, and we have numerous customers who have put all of their user accounts on a central server in order to facilitate backups. A typical 100Mbit ethernet card could theoretically accomodate 70 separate CD-quality audio streams, although physical collisions on the LAN caused by multiple computers vying for network access simultaneously will reduce that to around 30.

For collaborative situations we have several functions and approaches that may be used, depending on your requirements and the desires of the users. Users may share a single account simply by logging in to the same account from different machines. VoxPro doesn't allow you to open, edit, move or rename a file that is already opened by a user on another machine, so there is no danger of file corruption due to multiple user access. Another callobarative tool is simply the "file copy" function -- any file (or multiple files) can be copied to any other user account just by selecting that user from the "Copy to..." menu. Finally, the administrator can grant UserA access to UserB's account, through the "Access Rights" menu. In this case, UserB's folders become accessible from UserA's "Folders" menu. And, of course, files can be imported and exported via normal Windows mechanisms.