System information

Host Installation

The hardware requirements are:

 Minimum requirements – Same as those specified by Microsoft for the respective

operating system.

 Recommended requirements – Same as those specified by Microsoft for the

respective operating system.

Installation requirements

The following additional requirements are required or recommended for installation of the

Host:

 Windows Installer 2.0 or later – Required by the installer. If needed, this upgrade is

applied automatically when the setup.exe installer image is run.

 Internet Explorer 4.0 or later – Required for online help.

 Local Administrator access rights – the Host runs as a Windows service on the local

machine. Therefore, Local Administrator access rights are required for the user who is

installing the Host on the machine.

NOTE: These prerequisites are met by the supported platforms, and therefore they are

not included in the software distribution packages.

Network requirements

The Host operates over any type of network, including dial-up, Ethernet, token ring, and

FDDI, provided that the network supports the TCP/IP, UDP/IP, IPX or SSL protocols.

The following conditions apply:

 IP is a general-purpose protocol supported on a wide variety of networks and servers.

To enable communication using TCP or UDP over IP, you must enable the Microsoft

TCP/IP Protocol (or you can use another WinSock 2 compliant IP stack).

 IPX provides access to Novell NetWare servers. To enable communication using IPX,

it is not necessary for any computer to be logged into a NetWare server, nor is it

necessary to run a NetWare client. To enable communication using IPX, you must have

the Microsoft NWLink IPX/SPX Compatible Transport (included with the operating

system).

 The SSL protocol runs above TCP/IP and below higher-level protocols such as HTTP

or IMAP. Using TCP/IP on behalf of the higher-level protocols allows an SSL-enabled

server to authenticate itself to an SSL-enabled client, and both machines to establish an

encrypted connection.

 The the UDP, TCP and SSL transports fully support IPv4 and IPv6 addressing.