Installing a Classic client

Classic client installation, also called a C/SIDE client, is more or less the same for all the versions of Navision Financials, Navision, Microsoft Business Solutions—Navision, or Dynamics NAV.

We have illustrated an example of 5.0 SP1 Dynamics NAV C/SIDE client installations as follows:

Starting with the startup screen of the installation disk, the process is fairly easy and well defined through the various installation stages. Click on C/SIDE Client for Microsoft Dynamics NAV under the Install section of the screen to run the installation wizard.

Note

If we want to install multiple versions of NAV on the same machine, there is a work around to do that. Install the latest version and copy the client (C:\program files\Microsoft Dynamics NAV\...) folder(s) for the rest of the versions that we want to use. Once we have copied the client files, use fin.exe or finsql.exe

The installation process takes us through the setup wizard. In a network installation, we...