Installing and Configuring RPC Applications

When Windows NT® or Windows® 95 is installed on a server or client, the RPC run-time files are automatically installed as well. No further RPC installation is required. You must ensure, however, that the version of Windows NT or Windows 95 is one that supports all the features used in your distributed application. See Targetting Stubs for Specific 32-Bit Platforms for more information.

To run MS-DOS or Microsoft Windows 16-bit clients on a 32-bit Windows operating system, your application's install program must install the proper Windows/MS-DOS executable files, as described below.

When you use an RPC application on a Windows 3.x or MS-DOS platform, the RPC run-time executable files must be copied to the Windows 3.x or MS-DOS computers that will be using the application. The directory \mstools\rpc_rt16 on the Win32 SDK CD contains a disk image with these files along with a setup program to install the files. Use this disk image to create an install disk for distribution with your RPC application.

When you build an RPC application for an Apple Macintosh client, the necessary files are linked to the application at build time and no additional RPC installation is needed.

For more details about redistributable files and licensing agreements, see \LICENSE\REDIST.TXT and \LICENSE\LICENSE.TXT on the Win32 SDK CD.

See Also

Configuring the Name Service Provider, Configuring the Name Service for Windows 95, Developing 16-bit Windows and MS-DOS Client Applications, Developing Macintosh Client Applications.