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Setting up WAN connections
 
If you want to connect to other users over the Internet, you have to 
open a WAN connection to each. This requires that all users have a 
working Internet connection and a public IP address. See page 5 for 
information about potential problems with Internet connections and 
how to remedy them.
WAN connections are set up in the Shared Projects dialog in the fol-
lowing way: 
1. 
Make sure the “Active” item on the Network menu is checked. 
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4. 
Type in the IP address of the computer you want to connect to and 
click OK. 
An item called “Global IP Network” now appears in the dialog. This lists either the IP 
address of the computer to which you have connected, or the domain name of its Internet 
service provider.
 
5. 
Repeat this procedure for every user you want to connect to over the 
Internet. 
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Note that if a computer is dynamically allocated an IP address 
by its Internet
 
 service provider – as opposed to...

 
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Your computer and/or the computer you’re trying to connect to doesn’t 
have the necessary ports open. 
See page 5 for information about which ports need to be open for network communi-
cation.
 
Updating the network information
 
If all users in a network are online and have entered user names (see 
page 7), you can do the following to update the network information in 
Nuendo: 
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Open the Shared Projects dialog and click the “Rescan Network” button 
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Verify Communication
 
Whenever project information needs to be updated over the network, 
Nuendo will first check if the connection with all project participants is 
still working. This check is performed in the background with a preset 
timeout period of 1 second. When participants do not respond within 
this timeout period, the “verify communication” function is called which 
has a much longer timeout. You can also call this function manually by 
pulling down the Network menu...

 
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Transfer Status
 
Transfer of network data always is performed in the background. If you 
want to check on the progress of you transfer processes, you can 
open the Transfer Status window by pulling down the Network menu 
and selecting “Transfer Status…”.
As you upload or download project data, the Transfer Status window 
displays progress bars for every track in the project. 

 
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Sharing projects
 
The following is a description of how to set up things up in order to 
share a project you have created with other users.
When you want to share a project with others, you first decide which 
users you want to have access to the project, and then specify their 
read and write permissions to it.
You can use different procedures for setting up a list of users and 
their read and write permissions: 
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You can create a permission preset containing all the settings....

 
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When creating a permission preset, there may generally be two kinds 
of situations: 
• 
Users have been established in the network and are online. 
• 
Users are offline and have not been established in the network.
The following procedure describes how to create a permission preset 
for a combination of the two situations above: 
1. 
Open the User Manager dialog from the Network menu. 
2. 
Click the “+”-sign below the “Permission Presets” column. 
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The “User Pool” column to the right lists all the users who have entered 
a user name and at some point have been online and established in the 
network. Regardless of whether they are currently online or offline, they 
are still listed.
However, there may also be instances when you want to add a user 
who is offline and hasn’t been established in the network. In such a 
case that user isn’t available in the User Pool list, but you can still add 
this user to a permission preset...

 
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The next thing to do is to define the read and write permissions for the 
added users: 
9. 
In the Read and Write columns, the read and write permissions for 
each user can be specified. By default each added user has both read 
and write permission. If you don’t want a user to have read or write 
permission, make sure the corresponding column is unchecked by 
clicking in it. 
Note that having write permission automatically means to also have read permission.
 
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Removing permission presets and users
 
Below each column to the right is a Remove button (the trash icon). 
You can remove one or several permission preset(s) or user(s) (including 
the “Guest” user – see below) from the respective columns by selecting 
them and clicking this icon.
 
About the Default Permissions preset and the Guest user
 
The “Default Permissions” preset cannot be removed. You can how-
ever use it either as is, or you can modify it as you wish by adding and...