OnCourse Software

I have ASE, FSC and RC (but not for much longer, I hope) running networked and all work fine.
I want PFE on my Client too but cant figure out how to get it to see FS on my Server - it doesnt see the drives there.

I have looked at the Manual - I admit I havent read it yet - and cant find anything about network setup. If Im wrong and its all there please point me to it, otherwise any help here would be most appreciated.

Nicholas

Are you talking about pointing PFE to see your FS flight plans? If so, just browse to the same mapping that you must be using for FSC

As far as I know I dont have any mapped drives. I swap an FSC plan made on my Server (bigger screen, more access) to FSC on the Client via the sharing folder: FSC follows my flight from then on.

PFE doesnt see the drives on my Server.
Are there instructions for this in the manual? I am unsure about how to map drives and I dont want to be bothering you here every all day.
Is the FS flightplan folder the only connection I need to make?

I have now mapped the Server C drive and linked to the FS flightplan location.
Opening my network folder on the Client shows only the four shared locations (App Data, FS9, FS Files and Shared Docs): it doesnt see any mapped drive.
PFE still only sees the drives on the Client where it is installed.

Where are the instructions for this in the manual - I still cant find it? It will take ages for me to get PFE running at this rate if I have to keep asking questions here and Im sure you have better things to do with your time.

Thanks
Nicholas

Hi Nicholas

Please try this

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/compute ... n-windows/

Thank you for the link.
I really have to get this clear: I am mapping the drives that are physically on the Server FROM the client, right?

Right now running PF2000 I can access the flightplan folder on the Server and select a plan and the Compile button is "live".

Under the Settings button it is asking me to find 1/ the FS2000 path and 2/ the APCL Path.
1/ I map the drive where FS9 is and now I see that drive on PF2000 but its asking me for the executable: I dont see the FS9.exe - all I see are the folders with FS9.
2/ What is supposed to go here?

Im sorry Dave but if you cant understand my difficulty here and cant tell me how to do this, in a step-by-step guide, Im not going to be able to run your program and it will be money wasted. I know other people have it running (I bought the program because others spoke so highly of it) but I am far from clever and quite frankly do not understand how to set this up.
What a shame that this is not in the Manual.

Firstly do not change anything in the pf settings. If pf 2000 is finding your flight plans and compiling ok why would you want to? For pfe all you need is either to share the fs flight plan folder which pfe will see (this is what I do) or map a drive.

You are correct and this should have been in the manual, although we have not had such a request.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S

Dave, I am very surprised at the way you are responding to my requests for help.

You admitted that there is no information in the manual about a network setup and then ask "Why you you want to?" change any settings. Why would I think I need to? Because I have interfaces for two programs, PFE and PF2000 and NO INSTRUCTIONS about how to set them up on a network.
It seemed to me that at least one of them would need to know where my FS main folder is - otherwise how will PFE know where I am? If you tell me that all it needs to know is the location of my FS flightplan folder then I believe you.

I have set PFE Options 1 and have selected and compiled a plan and loaded it as an ADV. In the tutorial it tells me to load this plan, which I will find with the prefix PFE, into my GPS.
Firstly, I use FMC/CDU, and secondly, I have no PFE-prefixed plan in my FS plan folder. There IS one in the PFE PIlots folder on the client, which is where the manual says that they are "normally" saved. Is a networked setup "normal" or should the saved folder be something different from the one suggested in the manual?

I want a visual inteface for PFE on my client: I want to be able to see all info and messages there with nothing on the Server screen - just as I have with another Comms program. Consequently I have FSUIPC "Hide all messages" and "Multiline off" checked.
I executed both PFE Displayer.exe and Remote Text.exe from their location on the client but nothing happened. No remote window opens and no PFE_Display folder was created in my FS root.

Four days after purchasing the program I am no nearer to being able to use it than before purchasing it.
I have read parts of the manual and it appears quite clear and complete - and I am sure it is perfect for "normal" users - but it is deficient for anyone who needs to be told how to set up PFE on a network. You said that nobody has ever requested such information to be included in the manual and I havent found any threads in this forum about setting PFE up networked. I can only conclude that I am the only PFE customer who couldnt figure this out for himself.

I asked you in my opening post if you could provide a step-by-step help, but it appears that you dont believe that this is neccessary, and ask "Why would you want to change something?".
If any PFE customer has the program running networked they obviously managed it without help from the manual or from you, and are therefore more intuitive and experienced than I am, so I shall ask for help now on general flysim forums: hopefully a PFE user will be happy to help.

The paths in PF 2000 are local and would/should have been setup automatically during installation.

The Destination ('Change Dest') path in PFE (which can be found after clicking the FS FP Converter button from the main screen) is also local and should be the ...PFE\FS2000\Pilots folder)

The Source ('Change Source') path in PFE needs to know where your FS flight plans are saved. That, of course, could be anywhere. You may be using the FS flight planner in which case it's on your FS machine (probably your server) or maybe if using another flight planner it could be on another client or the same maching that you're running PFE. Wherever they are PFE needs access to them.

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I have set PFE Options 1 and have selected and compiled a plan and loaded it as an ADV. In the tutorial it tells me to load this plan, which I will find with the prefix PFE, into my GPS.
Firstly, I use FMC/CDU, and secondly, I have no PFE-prefixed plan in my FS plan folder. There IS one in the PFE PIlots folder on the client, which is where the manual says that they are "normally" saved. Is a networked setup "normal" or should the saved folder be something different from the one suggested in the manual?

You will find the file in your FS flight plan folder or the folder where your flight planner generates the file

Hope that helps