Installing EZStreet

Welcome to EZStreet! Use the procedures in this section to install your new software.

After you install EZStreet, we recommend that you use this guide to help you set up your company.

NOTE:  If you have already chosen Intekron's Hosted Deployment option for EZStreet, please skip this section. EZStreet is a server-based application, and requires a certain level of technical expertise to install. If you don't want to install EZStreet on your own server, either because of the cost of purchasing and maintaining a server, or you just don't want to bother with this installation, you can let Intekron host EZStreet for you.  Intekron has hosted deployment options for all of its software, greatly reducing your costs of buying, maintaining, and providing access to web/server-based software.

Using EZStreet on a Network

EZStreet has been designed to work on a network, serving multiple users, with no client software installation required. Easy Street uses a Web-server to allow you to deploy it in a network environment.

Server Hardware and Software Requirements

To use EZStreet, you need the following minimum server equipment and software:

• A computer with either: Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows XP Professional, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, or Windows Server 2003 installed.
  
  
• A CD-ROM drive for the installation compact disc.
  
  
• Adequate disk space for the database, business objects, and Web pages – 10 MB free space minimum.

When using EZStreet, each computer you want to access the server must have Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) installed. The TCP/IP protocol is included with all supported Windows operating systems. To install and configure the TCP/IP protocol and related components, double-click the Network icon in Control Panel. Each system must meet additional requirements depending on whether you want to use the server on an intranet or the Internet.

Intranet Requirements

• A network adapter card and local area network (LAN) connection.
  
  
• The Windows Internet Name Service (WINS) server or the Domain Name System (DNS) server installed on a computer in your intranet. This step is optional, but it does allow users to use “friendly names” instead of IP addresses when connecting to your server.

Internet Requirements

• An Internet connection and Internet Protocol (IP) address from your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
  
  
• DNS registration for that IP address. This step is optional, but it does allow users to use “friendly names” instead of IP addresses when connecting to your server. For example, “amazon.com” is the friendly domain name registered to Amazon. Within the amazon.com domain, Amazon has named its World Wide Web (WWW) server www.amazon.com. Most ISPs can register your domain names for you.
  
  
• A network card suitable for your connection to the Internet.

Workstation Hardware and Software Requirements

To access the EZStreet server, you need only have Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0 or greater installed on your computer. If you do not have a compatible browser version, EZStreet will automatically notify you and provide a link to the latest browser available from the Microsoft Web site.

Server Install Procedure

EZStreet supports a number of different installation configurations for the server. Each of the server installation options is categorized by the target operating system of your server. You don’t need a dedicated server computer to install and use EZStreet. EZStreet comes in configurations for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP.

Windows 95/98/ME Intranet Server

The EZStreet server can be installed on a Windows 95/98/ME computer. The one limitation we suggest is that you only use your Windows 95/98/ME server on your Local Area Network (LAN), or as a standalone computer. Windows 95/98/ME isn’t as robust a networking and server platform as Windows NT or Windows 2000, therefore you can’t expect a Windows 95/98/ME server to perform as well as on the dedicated Windows Server operating systems.

Installing Personal Web Server

FYI: FrontPage Users
If you installed FrontPage 97/98, you would likely have also installed, by default, a FrontPage version of Personal Web Server. However, that server is not able to run the EZStreet Server application. Because you cannot install a second Web server on the same computer, you must uninstall FrontPage and then re-install it after the Personal Web Server installation.

To install Personal Web Server on a Windows 95 computer, you will need to install the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack. You can download the NT 4.0 Option Pack from Microsoft at:

http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ntoptionpack/askwiz.asp

Follow the installation instructions as described by Microsoft. When you have finished the installation of the Personal Web Server, continue to the next section: Installing the EZStreet Server files.

Install the EZStreet Server Files

Un-ZIP the EZSTtreet30.zip file into a directory on your server computer.  Once the files have been successfully un-zipped, you will need to Configure Personal Web Server.

Windows NT/2000/XP Professional Server

The EZStreet server can be installed on a Windows NT/2000/XP Professional server computer. The only requirement is that you have IIS (Internet Information Server) installed.

Install the EZStreet Server Files

Un-ZIP the EZSTtreet30.zip file into a directory on your server computer.  Once the files have been successfully un-zipped, you will need to Configure IIS.

A Word About Permissions

Read/Write permissions need to be set on a number of directories for the generic IIS webserver user IUSER_currentMachineName.

Access permissions are set by the machine administrator. The following permissions need to be established:

1. Read permission to the root directory of the drive on which IIS is installed. This is usually C:\*.*
   
2. Write permission to the WinNT directory. This is usually C:\WinNT\.
   
3. Read permission to the System32 directory. This is usually C:\WinNT\System32\*.*
   
4. Read permission to the Inetsrv directory. This is usually C:\WinNT\System32\INetSrv\*.*
   
5. Read permission to the OLE DB directory. This is usually C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Ole DB\*.*
   
6. Read permission to the ADO directory. This is usually C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\ado\*.*
   
7. Change permissions to the application database directories. These are usually:
   
   
   • \<your un-zip directory>\EZStreet30\*.*
     
   • \<your un-zip directory>\EZStreet30\data\.
     
   • \<your un-zip directory>\EZStreet30\data\*.*
     

IMPORTANT! Register The EZStreet.DLL

The final step in installing EZStreet requires that you register the program DLL on the server.  In the un-zipped directories of your Easy Street installation, there will be a directory name bin.  In this directory there is a file call EZStreet.dll.  Open a Command Prompt or DOS Window and set your path to the bin directory.  On the command prompt, type the following and press enter:

regsvr32 ezstreet.dll

You should get a confirmation message that the dll was successfully registered.