| 1. | All participating hosts must be highly available file servers, and accessible across highly available and stable networks. |
| 2. | FolderMaestro File Collaboration only propagates locks when a file is opened with a read-write lock (e.g. MS Word, MS Excel, etc.) If a file is opened in read-only mode without an exclusive write lock, or if the application closes all handles to the file (e.g. Notepad, WordPad, etc.), the lock will not be propagated to the Target Hosts. |
| 3. | In order for file collaboration to work correctly, all end-user file access and modifications must be done through a network share or network mapped drive, and not performed locally on the participating host directly. If you access a file in the Watch Set locally on the participating host, then file locks will not be propagated to the Target Hosts. |
| 4. | A FolderMaestro Agent must be installed on all participating hosts, and each host machine must be running Windows 2000, Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 Server with the latest service packs and acting as a file server where the Watch Set is located on a locally attached storage device. The Watch Set cannot be located on a NAS device that is mapped through a network share. |
| 5. | The FolderMaestro Agent is installed as a Windows service under the default SYSTEM user account. The user that the service is running under should have read+write access to the Watch Set |
| 6. | The Hub must be installed on a highly available Windows 2000, Windows 2003 or Windows 2008 server with at least 2GB or RAM, and must have 512MB of RAM dedicated to the Hub and Broker applications. This is the default and recommended configuration, but the amount of RAM can be increased via custom configuration to optimize performance. |
| 7. | All participating hosts must have network access to the machine where the Broker is installed, which by default will be the same machine where you installed the Hub. You will also need to configure the FolderMaestro Agent to connect to the Brokers host name or IP Address, and allow firewall access to the configured port, which by default is 61617. You will also need to allow access from all participating hosts to port 8181 of the machine that the Hub is running on. |
| 8. | The FolderMaestro File Collaboration software is intended to be installed and maintained by a qualified System Administrator, and not a typical end-user. |
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