2.1 Understanding the Basic Client Installation (setup.exe)

To install the Client software, use setup.exe, located in the C:\Open Text\Client for Open Enterprise Server <version> directory created when you extracted the downloaded Client installation set.

Figure 2-1 Express Client Installation

The Client Express Installation automatically installs and configures the Client for Open Enterprise Server. The Custom Installation lets you choose whether or not to install the following when you install the Client:

Novell Modular Authentication Services (NMAS)
Novell International Cryptographic Infrastructure (NICI)
Advanced Authentication Client
Advanced Authentication Device Services

Along with the preceded components, the Client for Open Enterprise Server installs the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package by default. If NMAS and NICI are chosen to install when you install the Client for Open Enterprise Server 2 SP4 (IR9) or later, then the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable Package is also installed.

The setup.exe installation process can also be modified by using the following command line switches:

Table 2-1 Setup.exe Switches

Switch	Description
/ACU	Directs setup.exe to perform an upgrade of the currently installed Client software if the version to be installed is a later one.
/NCPF	Applies the Client property page settings specified in the default NovellClientProperties.txt file. Use the Client Install Manager (nciman.exe) to create this file. See Creating the Client Properties File for more information.
/NCPF:filename	Applies the Client property page settings specified in filename. Use the Client Install Manager (nciman.exe) to create this file. See Creating the Client Properties File for more information.

/ACU and /NCPF can be specified together at the command line. For more information, see Using Optional Parameters to Install the Client in the Client for Open Enterprise Server Quick Start.

Although the Client for Open Enterprise Sever does not have a completely silent installation mode, the install.ini file can be used to eliminate the prompts that the setup.exe would intend to present before proceeding with installation. For more information, see Section 2.3, Using the Install.ini File.

2.1.1 Selecting a Language

The Client installation contains a language selection dialog box. The language choice made in this dialog box determines the language that setup.exe uses, and also becomes the language selection for the installed Client.

Figure 2-2 Language Selection Dialog Box

This section contains information on how this dialog box operates, using single language and multiple language versions of Windows, and the languages that are available for selection.

How the Language Selection Dialog Box Works

On new installations, the default choice in the language selection dialog box is Use Windows language configuration. The language selection list also includes the other available languages which Client for OES supports (for example, Select this line to install in English and Select this line to install in French).

Selecting the Use Windows language configuration option causes the Client to try and match the language the Windows user interface is using. The Client consults the Windows Multilingual User Interface (MUI) configuration and determines if any of the Client for OES languages match the current MUI preferred or fallback languages.

Currently for the Client for Open Enterprise Server, the language selection dialog box in setup.exe is the only way you can make a Client language configuration change. To make a new language selection, you must run setup.exe again and choose a different language.

Using Single-Language Versions of Windows

On single-language versions of Windows, selecting the Use Windows language configuration option is no different than selecting a specific Client’s supported language. For example, if you are running the German version of the Windows 7 Professional Edition, selecting either Use Windows language configuration or Select this line to install in German results in German being used as the language for both the Client for OES installation and the installed version of the Client.

Using Multiple-Language Versions of Windows

On multiple-language versions of Windows, the Windows user interface language can be individually selected for each Windows user on the machine (using the Change Display Language option in the Windows Control Panel).

If Use Windows language configuration is selected during the Client installation, the current Windows MUI language configuration is consulted each time the Client language is queried. If the Windows MUI language configuration changes (for example, if a user changes his or her preferred Windows display language, or a different user who has a different preferred Windows display language logs in), the Client re-evaluates the current Windows MUI language selections and determine which of the available Client languages best matches the new and current MUI language.

Available Language Selections

In the Client language selection dialog box, you might notice that not all of the available Client languages are offered for selection. For example, on a machine with a Japanese version of Windows installed, only Select this line to install in English and Select this line to install in Japanese are offered, along with the Use Windows language configuration option.

This is because some components of the Client are not yet completely based on Unicode. Until all of the major and required Client user interfaces operate in Unicode, the Client is limited to those languages that can be correctly rendered through the current Windows ANSI code page (what the Windows Regional and Language Options Control Panel dialog box refers to as Language for non-Unicode programs).

Figure 2-3 Regional and Language Options Dialog Box

In general, this means that users of the English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish versions of Windows can select any one of these languages for the Client language. This is because all of these languages share the same ANSI code page and can successfully render all the other offered languages. Users of the Japanese, Polish, and Russian versions of Windows, however, can select only their own language or English. For example, a Russian version of Windows will display a language selection list with only Use Windows language configuration, Select this line to install in English, and Select this line to install in Russian.

Even on a multi-language version of Windows, with one or more additional Multilingual User Interface (MUI) language packs installed, there is still only one system-wide Language for non-Unicode programs (meaning that there is still only one system-wide ANSI code page selected in Windows at any given time). As such, even if a machine with a Russian version of Windows successfully installs and uses a German MUI language pack for Windows, the Client language selection dialog box still only offers English and Russian as options. This is because the Client language choices are based on the current Windows configuration for the Language for non-Unicode programs setting and not on which MUI language packs are installed or in use.

The Language for non-Unicode programs option can be changed to a different language, which then affects which languages the Client installation can offer for selection. This is a system-wide setting that affects all non-Unicode applications and not just the Client.