Installing DAO on Another Machine

In order to run a DAO-enabled application on another machine, you must properly install DAO on that machine. You can install DAO using one of the following methods:

• Copy the supplied installation program and use it directly.
  
  
• Modify the supplied InstallShield scripts and build them into your own InstallShield-based setup.
  
  
• Create your own setup using some other tool set. This is not recommended (see Note below).

Note Creating your own installation without using the supplied InstallShield scripts as a starting point is not recommended. An OLE Automation server like DAO can only exist in one place on a machine, so if your setup does not work correctly it will break other applications that use DAO (such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Visual Basic, or other DAO-enabled applications). If you need to start from scratch, see the file DAOSetup.rtf in the Setup subdirectory of your DAO SDK installation for more details.

Some interesting combinations of the above methods are also useful. For example, you can combine method 1 with 3 and create your own setup program that calls the supplied installation in ‘silent’ or ‘scripted’ modes. These are discussed more below.