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This tutorial is for users not experienced with Helix Server. After working through this tutorial, you should understand the following:

  • the basics of starting up a shared server and command line client
  • getting a shared server and client communicating with each other
  • adding, editing, deleting, and syncing files on your client computer
  • checking those files into the server.

The sections that follow take you — step-by-step — through the tutorial.

Important

Before running this tutorial install the shared server and command client binaries onto the same computer. See Installation for instructions.