Macintosh
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2009 4:48 pm
I wrote a quick BR app to help a friend who's running her first non-profit. But she uses macintoshs, and I don't know very much about Macs. Can anyone here help me get my software running on a macintosh?
These are the problems I ran into:
1) There doesn't appear to be any BR Native for the mac. It seems like the only way to run BR software on the Mac is by using the Client Server model of BR. Is this true?
2) If I have to run the Client Server model, can't I install the server on the mac and then tell the client to connect to "localhost"? How do you install the CS Server on a mac? The only instructions I can find are for Linux and Windows.
3) IF I can't install the server on a mac, I could still host the application on our windows server and my friend can connect to it over the internet from her Mac. But I can't figure out how to tell the client which computer to connect to. Under windows, you simply add the host IP address (or DNS name) and the Label as command line arguments to the brclient.exe. You can do that by making a shortcut to brclient.exe and typing the command line arguments directly in the shortcut properties.
I can't figure out how to make a shortcut on a macintosh. I made something called an "alias" which I think is the same thing as a shortcut, but I could not figure out how to specify command line parameters in a macintosh alias. Is it possible to specify this information in command line parameters on a macintosh?
4) Even if I can't specify command line arguments on the mac, I have seen reference in the Client Server documentation to some sort of a br_parms.txt file or something, that you can put in the client folder, that will tell it which hostname and ip to use. I just got it working that way (even as I was writing this email). So now I have a beginning solution, I can host it on my windows server and she can connect to it over the internet.
For anyone curious, the file is called br_parms.txt and it needs the following two lines:
host=[ip address or dns name]
label=[the label you are connecting to]
You place it in the BR Client folder.
But if anyone could help me with questions 1 or 2 above, It would really help. It would be a better solution for her if she was able to run it locally, either with a brnative for the mac or with instructions to install the CS server on the macintosh.
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. If someone could answer even just one of these questions, it would probably be enough to get me going. There are a lot of ways to get where I'm trying to go.
Gabriel
These are the problems I ran into:
1) There doesn't appear to be any BR Native for the mac. It seems like the only way to run BR software on the Mac is by using the Client Server model of BR. Is this true?
2) If I have to run the Client Server model, can't I install the server on the mac and then tell the client to connect to "localhost"? How do you install the CS Server on a mac? The only instructions I can find are for Linux and Windows.
3) IF I can't install the server on a mac, I could still host the application on our windows server and my friend can connect to it over the internet from her Mac. But I can't figure out how to tell the client which computer to connect to. Under windows, you simply add the host IP address (or DNS name) and the Label as command line arguments to the brclient.exe. You can do that by making a shortcut to brclient.exe and typing the command line arguments directly in the shortcut properties.
I can't figure out how to make a shortcut on a macintosh. I made something called an "alias" which I think is the same thing as a shortcut, but I could not figure out how to specify command line parameters in a macintosh alias. Is it possible to specify this information in command line parameters on a macintosh?
4) Even if I can't specify command line arguments on the mac, I have seen reference in the Client Server documentation to some sort of a br_parms.txt file or something, that you can put in the client folder, that will tell it which hostname and ip to use. I just got it working that way (even as I was writing this email). So now I have a beginning solution, I can host it on my windows server and she can connect to it over the internet.
For anyone curious, the file is called br_parms.txt and it needs the following two lines:
host=[ip address or dns name]
label=[the label you are connecting to]
You place it in the BR Client folder.
But if anyone could help me with questions 1 or 2 above, It would really help. It would be a better solution for her if she was able to run it locally, either with a brnative for the mac or with instructions to install the CS server on the macintosh.
Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. If someone could answer even just one of these questions, it would probably be enough to get me going. There are a lot of ways to get where I'm trying to go.
Gabriel