Run the following commands to create directories to be used in this tutorial. The consolidated directory contains all the database and other files that would normally reside on your central server.

md c:\cadmin_demo
md c:\cadmin_demo\consolidated

Create a SQL Anywhere consolidated database and an ODBC data source to connect to it.

cd c:\cadmin_demo\consolidated
dbinit consol.db
start dbeng12 consol.db
dbdsn -w cadmin_tutorial_consol consol -y -c "UID=DBA;PWD=sql;DBF=consol.db;SERVER=consol"
cd ..

Proceed to Lesson 2: Creating a MobiLink project.