Before You Install: Precautions and Required Permissions

Review the following precautions and required permissions:
  • If you want SPD Server clients to connect to the SPD Server host using name services instead of specifying port numbers at invocation, you need Write access to your server machine's ...\etc\services directory. Name services require you to define registered ports that use the services file appropriate to your machine.
  • If your SPD Server clients access the SPD Server host by using name services instead of by specifying port numbers, you need Write access to the services files on the clients, in the path ...\etc\services.