Installation and Configuration: TNIUT Client


Installing TNIUT Client:

Installing the TNIUT Client is almost same as the server. The difference is that there are 2 versions of the client setup file. One that works on the Windows NT and Windows 2000. The setup file of this can be identified by this icon: .

Another Client setup file that works in the Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows XP has an icon which looks like this: . Please note the difference in the color of "NT" written in the icon. In the setup file for windows NT is sky blue.

You may get an error message saying that a certain dll file could not be registered properly, as in the server installation. As you already know, this will cause no problem. The only thing that you need to do is restart your computer.

Always install and configure Server software before starting installation of client. This is useful as mentioned below, in the charge configuration.

General Configuration of Client:

Once installed, The TNIUT Client needs to be configured in order to run. Configuration of server will take a few minutes.

Once installed, you need to run the program by double clicking its icon, or shortcut in desktop or start menu. The icon of TNIUT Client looks like this.


Important: If you are using a proxy server in your local network, and it blocks ports other than commonly used ones, either you will have to disable the feature or you have to allow selective ports for network communication. The client use port number 23987, and server uses port numbers 24988, 24989, 24990... upto the number of computers in your network, as local ports. If you want to give selective access, you will have to give selective access to these ports.

For example, if you are using Wingate 4.0 or higher, it has a feature called NAT, which will block all the ports except the usual ports unless port to be allowed network access is not specified. You will either have to disable NAT feature, or configure wingate, so that it allows access through ports 23987, 24988, 24989.. etc upto the number of computers in your LAN. Configuration will vary according to the Proxy server you have.

If you are using Windows NT or Windows 2000 in server computer, and sharing internet connection via the operating system itself, you should have no problem in configuring the software.


On running the program for the first time in your computer, the configuration interface will be seen, which looks like this:

As you can see, there are 2 tabs and 2 buttons. The buttons are self explanatory. They are for saving and cancelling changes. The two tabs are for "General" and "Charge" configuration.

  1. In the general configuration tab, the first thing you need to input is the computer number of the client. Please remember that this should be a unique number between 1 to 20 ( or 1 to the number of computers you need to monitor). If you put same number in 2 or more clients, only one will be able to connect to the Server and others will not be connected, and the connection rectangle will have a red color.

    In such cases, you will have problem in configuring the client again, as the "Configuration" button is disabled by default. Please contact your vendor or mail to nepalitimer@lycos.com, in such a case.

  2. The second thing you need to input is the currency you use. It is same as the server. In most of the case you would like to input "Rs.".

  3. The Third input is important. The IP address of the server computer. This is the Internet Protocol address of the network interface card of the server.

    In windows 98 type operating systems(windows 98, ME, XP) this can be found by right clicking on the "Network Neighbourhood" icon in the desktop, then clicking on "Properties" in the pop up menu, then by choosing the TCP/IP protocol of the Network Interface card. This is shown in the picture below (click on the picture to view full size).

Right click on the network neighbourhood and click on "Properties" in the SERVER COMPUTER Click on the TCP/IP protocol of your Network card and click on "Properties" The IP address you have to entered is in the IP ADDRESS tab, like shown in the picture encircled.


In windows NT type operating systems(windows NT, 2000) this can be found as follows:

In windows NT and windows 2000, you will have to go to the "Network and dial up connections", then right click on the local area connection and click on "Properties" in the SERVER COMPUTER Click on the TCP/IP protocol of your Local area connection and click on "Properties" The IP address you have to entered is in the TCP/IP properties, like shown in the picture encircled.


We use the IP address as that is the most reliable for network communication, instead of network name for computers. This IP address is found in the TCP / IP settings of network card of server computer. If you are using a proxy server such as "Wingate", for internet access, you can click on the "Find it" button to automatically find the IP address of your server computer. But if you are not using a Local proxy server and are using the ISP's proxy server, then it will find the wrong IP address for server computer. In this case the IP address will usually come other than "192.168.x.x" or "10.0.x.x". In such cases, you will have to find out the IP address manually.
  1. The fourth thing you need to type is the name of your communication center, or whatever you want to be written in the top of the client interface.

  2. & lastly, a check box for whether to start TNIUT client whenever windows starts, or not. It is recommended you choose to open at startup as this will prevent you from clicking in the short cuts to start the client application in each computer once you boot/reboot your computer.

Charge Configuration of Client:

The charge configuration tab of the client looks like this.


The charge configuration is same as server's. You can click on "Get charge rates from server" to get the charge configuration that was put on server. It is for this reason that we recommended earlier to keep the server software running when installing and configuring the client.

For this The Server software should be running in the server computer, and the Computer Number and server's IP address should be put in the respective boxes. Sometimes, the "Get charge rates from server" button will not be able to get the charge configuration from server, due to unknown reasons. If you are not successful to get server's charge rate on several attempts, please put the charge configuration manually.

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