Distributing Your Application: 3 Setting Up a PC Server

The Nokia 9000i Communicator comes with a disk containing the software by which a PC may be made to act as a server machine for the Install/Remove software application. The phone can make either a serial or IR connection with the PC. (For an IR connection, the PC must be running MS Windows 95 and the IR monitoring software which comes with it.)

From MS Windows 3.1 or Windows 95, run the program called server on the floppy disk to install a program called NServer onto the PC.
Run NServer to turn your PC into a server for the Nokia 9000i Communicator. This program monitors one of the PC's COM ports.
Make sure that the NServer program is monitoring the right COM port--check its Settings.

If the user makes a serial or IR connection between a Nokia 9000i Communicator and a PC running the NServer, then runs the Install/Remove software application on the phone, they can install packages from the PC to their phone.

The Install/Remove software application needs to know which directory to scan for Package Definition files. By default, the Install/Remove software application will look in the PC's A:\NSERVER directory--allowing for easy installation directly from floppy. If the files reside on the PC's hard drive, they should probably reside in C:\NSERVER; if they don't, make sure that the user knows where to look for them. To avoid clutter, you might want to put each "package" of files into its own directory under the directory containing the package description files.

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