Product specifications

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User Names and Passwords Required For Avid Shared Storage and Product Servers
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Know Where Your Subnets Are on the Network
Create a system diagram that identifies the subnets on your Avid Interplay environment. Use
Unicast Discovery to allow Interplay clients to communicate across subnets. See “Connecting
Systems Directly to the Lookup Service” on page 106.
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The Multicast Repeater service is available on the Avid Service Framework installer but the
service is no longer recommended. Use Unicast Discovery instead.
Install Antivirus Software and Check Firewalls
See “Using Antivirus Software in an Interplay Environment” on page 97 and Troubleshooting
Firewalls and Avid Interplay.
Time Synchronization
It is important to use only one time synchronism mechanism to set the local PC clocks in the
Interplay environment. For more information on Time Sync, see “Using Time Synchronization in
an Avid Interplay Environment” on page 101.
User Names and Passwords Required For Avid
Shared Storage and Product Servers
Some Avid products require user accounts on the Avid shared storage system. The user names
and passwords on the Avid shared storage system must match the user names and passwords on
the product server.
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Passwords are case sensitive; the passwords must match exactly.
The following topics provide information about required user accounts:
“Creating the Server Execution User Account” on page 25
Accounts for Accessing Workspaces” on page 26
Accounts for Using Deletion” on page 27
Accounts for Using Interplay Transfer” on page 28
“Service Framework Administrator Password” on page 28
Accounts for Avid Editing Applications, Assist, and Instinct” on page 28
Also see “Creating Copy Provider User Accounts for ISIS and Interplay” on page 149