Steinberg Nuendo 3 Networking Manual

 
Networking 

 
Original Manual by Synkron.
Revision and Quality Control for Nuendo 3: 
Ashley Shepherd, Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer, Claudia Schomburg
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Table of Contents
 
4Introduction
4What can I use the Networking functions for?
5About the technology
5Considerations for Internet use
7Getting started - selecting a user name and basic procedure
9Selecting a user name - alternative method
10Setting up a network
10Setting up LAN connections
11Setting up WAN connections
13Updating the network information
14Verify Communication
15Transfer Status
16Sharing projects
16Creating a permission preset
20Setting up users and permissions...

 
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Introduction
 
This document describes how you can use Nuendo’s networking tech-
nology to collaborate with other users of Nuendo in a peer-to-peer net-
work.
The “owner” of a project can share it with any number of users via LAN 
(Local Area Network) connections and/or WAN (Wide Area Network) 
connections via standard network protocols.
This allows several separate users to work on a project simultaneously 
and coordinate their efforts, as well as exchange ideas and sugges-...

 
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About the technology
 
In addition to TCP/IP, the Nuendo networking technology uses the 
standard network protocol UDP (User Datagram Protocol - primarily 
used to broadcast messages over a network).
Since the technology uses the standard protocols and calls of the op-
erating system, no special hardware or drivers are required to use it, 
aside from a working NIC card.
Nuendo uses three ports in your system for establishing communica-
tion, broadcasting messages and transferring...

 
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If your computer is behind a firewall
 
In a LAN, Nuendo uses the UDP port 6990 to establish communication 
with the other computers. Over the Internet however, Nuendo does not 
use this port. Instead, connection and communication is established 
and handled via TCP/IP messages sent to the TCP ports 6991 and 
6992.
This means that the TCP ports 6991 and 6992 must be open on all 
computers. Firewalls may block messages to these ports, thus making 
connection impossible. Consult the...

 
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Getting started - selecting a user name and 
basic procedure
 
The following is a quick summary of how to use Nuendo’s networking 
technology - how to enter a user name, and the basic procedure for 
sharing a project with other users. In other words it’s a quick guide for 
quickly getting down to business and sharing a project, but you will 
probably want and need to read the rest of this 
document as well for 
more in-depth descriptions of procedures and functions.
When you have...

 
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3. 
At this point, a dialog opens asking whether you want to enter a 
unique user name to identify your computer in the network. 
This is the name that will be displayed in all the network dialogs to identify you to the 
other users in a network.
 
• Each user in a network 
 
must
 
 specify a user name, or network name, in 
order to be identified in the network. However, you don’t have to do this 
now, since you can do it at a later time if you wish (see page 9).
 
4. 
Click “Yes”...

 
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Now everyone can collaborate on the project, contribute new tracks, 
edit existing data and commit the changes to the other users.
The above procedure is a short and sweet summary of the basic usage, 
but the Nuendo networking technology offers far more options. For in-
stance, you can specify which users in a network should have access 
to a project, whether they should have complete access or only partial 
access, and much more.
On the following pages we will also describe how to...

 
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3. 
Click in the text box, type in a name of your choice and press [Return]. 
This is the name that will be displayed in all the network dialogs to identify you to the 
other users in a network.
 
Note that the following user names are reserved and can’t be used: 
 
“Guest”, “Administrator”, “Admin” and “Anonymous”.
 
Once you have entered a user name and this has been established in 
the network, it shouldn’t be changed unless absolutely necessary! To 
use an analogy, this is...