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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. 
This initiates network communication with the other participants.
 
2. 
Open the Shared Projects dialog from the Network menu. 
3. 
Click the “Add WAN Connection” button in the toolbar. 
A dialog appears, requesting the URL – the IP address – of the computer you want to 
connect to. In other words, you need to know the user’s IP address.
The “Add WAN Connection“ button. 
						

							 
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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. 
•
 
Note that if a computer is dynamically allocated an IP address 
by its Internet
 
 service provider – as opposed to having a permanent 
IP add
ress – you will have to repeat the above procedure each time the 
computer receives a new IP address!
 
• 
You can remove a WAN connection by selecting it and clicking the 
“Remove WAN Connection” button. 
The “Remove WAN Connection” button. 
• 
You can remove the entire “Global IP Network” item by selecting it 
and pressing [Delete] or [Backspace]. 
This will also remove any existing WAN connections.
 
Should you be unable to establish a WAN connection, first verify that 
you entered the IP address correctly. Connection problems may also 
occur for the following reasons: 
• 
Your computer and/or the computer you’re trying to connect to is pro-
tected by a firewall. 
See page 5 for more information about how to resolve firewall problems. 
						

							 
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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: 
• 
Open the Shared Projects dialog and click the “Rescan Network” button 
to update the network information.
 
This is the button to the far right in the toolbar.
 
At this point, the following will happen: 
• The item “Users in Local Network” should be updated to display a list of all 
the online users connected via LAN, along with their user names.
• The item “Global IP Network” should be updated to display a list of all the on-
line users connected via WAN, along with their user names.
 
If the user list isn’t updated as it should, this is probably because the 
computers in the network aren’t communicating properly, see above. 
• Information about users that are offline will not be updated. 
						

							 
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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 and selecting the Verify Communica-
tion option.
When this function is called, a dialog shows the progress of the 
checking process.  
• 
When all project participants are found, a dialog will be shown listing 
all project participants and their response times (i. e. the time it took 
for their computers to respond to the check). In case these response 
times were longer than the standard threshold, or if a participant was 
not found who you know is in fact online and waiting for network infor-
mation, you may want to click on Adjust timer. This will change the 
timeout threshold in Nuendo to a longer setting, allowing for partici-
pants with slower response times to be found. 
• 
In case project participants are not found because they are offline, a 
dialog will be shown allowing you to remove these users from the 
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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 
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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: 
• 
You can create a permission preset containing all the settings. 
Storing permission presets is practical since they let you quickly and easily apply the 
same list of users and their permissions to future projects.
 
• 
You can set up users and their permissions manually for each project. 
This method also allows you to specify permissions for separate tracks in a project, as 
opposed to the entire project.
 
• 
Alternatively, you can let all the participants in a network have access 
to a project, in which case you don’t have to make any special permis-
sion settings, but instead use the “Default Permissions”. 
See page 20 for more information about this.
 
We will first describe all of these methods here, and then proceed to 
describe how you go about sharing a project. 
Creating a permission preset
 
In the User Manager dialog, read and write permission settings for us-
ers can be stored in permission presets. These can then be applied to 
projects – meaning that if you apply a permission preset to a project, 
the users will automatically get read and write permissions for it ac-
cording to the settings stored in the permission preset. 
• 
Read permission allows users to view and play back shared projects 
or tracks but not make any changes to them. 
• 
Write permission allows users to make any changes to shared 
projects or tracks.
 
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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. 
A dialog appears, allowing you to name the permission preset to be created.
 
3. 
Type in the desired name and click “OK”. 
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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 in the following way: 
4. 
Click the “+”-sign below the “User Pool” column. 
A user with a generic name – “User #” – is added to the list.
 
5. 
Double click the generic name and type in the desired name. 
The user you’re adding may have decided on a user name and entered it, as described 
on page 9, but has been offline and therefore not yet established in the network. In this 
case, you can enter that name if you know it. Otherwise, enter a name of your own 
choice and later inform the user about it to let him or her know which name to use.
 
The next step is to add users to the permission preset. 
6. 
Make sure the preset is selected in the “Permission Presets” column. 
7. 
In the “User Pool” column, select the user(s) you want to add to the 
permission preset. 
To select several users, contiguously or non-contiguously, hold down [Shift] or [Ctrl]/
[Command] and click on the user names.
 
8. 
When you have selected the user(s) you want to add, click the Arrow 
symbol to the left of the “User Pool” column. 
The users you selected will now be added to the “User” column in the middle of the dia-
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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.
 
10. 
When you have added the desired users and specified their read and 
write permissions, the preset is complete. 
The permission preset will now be available for use. See page 25 for information on 
how to utilize a saved permission preset.
 
Permission presets apply to entire projects – i.e. when a permission 
preset is loaded, the read and write permission settings in it are valid 
for the whole project. You can however also specify permissions 
sepa
rately for each track, which is described on page 23.
 
• Note that it is also possible to create a permission preset in the Project 
Sharing and Permissions dialog, as described on page 22. 
						

							 
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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 
removing users. By default, it contains one user – “Guest” – with both 
read and write permission. 
• 
If “Guest” is added to a permission preset, anyone in the network can 
utilize the Guest permissions. 
I.e. if you share a project and have Guest as a user, anyone in the network can join it 
and have the read and write permissions specified for the user “Guest”.
 
This means that if you want to share a project with everyone in a net-
work and let everyone have both read and write permission for the 
entire project, the easiest and quickest way to do this is to use the 
De
fault Permissions preset as is.
 
Setting up users and permissions manually
 
Instead of creating a permission preset in the User Manager dialog, as 
described above, you can use the “Project Sharing and Permissions” 
dialog to manually set up which users should be allowed to share a 
Project, and what read and write permissions they should have. 
• You can also save the permission settings you make in this dialog as a 
permission preset (see page 22). However, unlike in the “User Manager” 
dialog, it is not possible to add users who have not yet been established 
in the network (see page 16).