Maxdata FALCON 200 L, FALCON 300 L user guide

MAXDATA FALCON 200 L / 300 L

User‘s Manual

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Important Imformation

Table of Contents

1 Introduction 7

2 Supported Software Features 9

3 Quick Installation 11

4 Boot Procedure 1

4.1 System BIOS ...................................................................................................................................13

4.2 Secondary Stage Loader and Boot Menu ........................................................................................ 13

4.2.1 Quiet Boot ............................................................................................................................... 13

4.2.2 Verbose Boot ...........................................................................................................................13

4.2.3 Emergency Boot ......................................................................................................................13

4.2.4 Reset to default factory settings ............................................................................................. 13

4.3 Networking ......................................................................................................................................13

4.4 X Server ...........................................................................................................................................13

5 Setup (Global Settings) 15

5.1 Starting the Setup ...........................................................................................................................15

5.1.1 Leaving the setup ....................................................................................................................15

5.2 General ............................................................................................................................................16

5.3 Input ...............................................................................................................................................17

5.3.1 Keyboard .................................................................................................................................17

5.3.2 Mouse .....................................................................................................................................18

5.3.3 Touchscreen ............................................................................................................................19

5.4 Display .............................................................................................................................................20

5.4.1 Global Display Settings ............................................................................................................20

5.4.2 Advanced Display Settings ......................................................................................................21

5.4.2.1 Resolution .......................................................................................................................21

5.4.2.2 DPMS ..............................................................................................................................22

5.4.2.3 XDMCP ...........................................................................................................................23

5.4.2.4 Access Control ................................................................................................................24

5.4.2.5 Appearance .....................................................................................................................25

5.4.2.6 XC Font Service ............................................................................................................... 28

5.4.2.7 NFS Font Service ............................................................................................................29

5.5 Network ........................................................................................................................................... 30

5.5.1 Main Network Settings ...........................................................................................................30

5.5.2 Advanced Networks Settings ..................................................................................................31

5.5.2.1 LAN Interfaces ................................................................................................................31

5.5.2.2 Analog Modem ................................................................................................................ 33

5.5.2.3 ISDN ...............................................................................................................................35

5.5.2.4 ADSL ...............................................................................................................................37

5.5.2.5 PPTP ................................................................................................................................ 39

5.5.2.6 Cisco VPN .......................................................................................................................41

5.5.2.7 Routing ............................................................................................................................44

5.5.2.8 Hosts ...............................................................................................................................45

5.5.2.9 NFS .................................................................................................................................46

5.5.2.10 SMB ..............................................................................................................................47

5.5.2.11 Filetransfer ....................................................................................................................48

5.6 Update .............................................................................................................................................49

5.7 Sessions ..........................................................................................................................................50

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5.8 ICA (Global ICA Settings) ................................................................................................................. 51

5.8.1 Window ................................................................................................................................... 51

5.8.2 Server Location .......................................................................................................................52

5.8.3 Hotkey ..................................................................................................................................... 53

5.8.4 Drive Mapping ......................................................................................................................... 54

5.8.5 COM Ports ..............................................................................................................................55

5.8.6 Printer ......................................................................................................................................56

5.8.7 Firewall .................................................................................................................................... 57

5.8.8 Logon ......................................................................................................................................58

5.8.9 Options ....................................................................................................................................59

5.9 RDP (Global RDP Settings) ..............................................................................................................60

5.9.1 Window ................................................................................................................................... 60

5.9.2 Server ...................................................................................................................................... 61

5.9.3 Drive Mapping ......................................................................................................................... 61

5.9.4 COM Ports ..............................................................................................................................62

5.9.5 Printer ......................................................................................................................................62

5.9.6 Sound/Keyboard ......................................................................................................................63

5.9.7 Performance ............................................................................................................................64

5.9.8 Options ....................................................................................................................................64

5.10 Devices .......................................................................................................................................... 65

5.10.1 Serial Ports ...........................................................................................................................65

5.10.2 USB Info ............................................................................................................................... 66

5.10.3 USB Storage Hotplug ...........................................................................................................66

5.10.4 Automount Devices ...............................................................................................................67

5.10.5 Automount Devices ...............................................................................................................69

5.11 Printer ............................................................................................................................................70

5.11.1 LPD Printer ........................................................................................................................... 70

5.11.2 LPD Hosts .............................................................................................................................72

5.11.3 ThinPrint Client ..................................................................................................................... 73

5.12 Security .........................................................................................................................................74

5.12.1 Password ...............................................................................................................................74

5.12.2 User Permissions ..................................................................................................................75

5.12.3 Commands ............................................................................................................................ 76

5.12.4 RSH Remote Access .............................................................................................................77

5.12.5 Shadow .................................................................................................................................78

5.12.6 Smartcard .............................................................................................................................. 79

5.12.7 Hotkeys .................................................................................................................................80

5.12.8 Kerberos ................................................................................................................................ 81

5.13 Registry .........................................................................................................................................83

6 Application Launcher 85

6.1 About ...............................................................................................................................................85

6.2 “Applications” Page (Starting Sessions) .........................................................................................86

6.2.1 “Reboot” or “Shutdown” the Thin Client ............................................................................... 86

6.3 “Config” Page (Creating Sessions) ................................................................................................87

6.3.1 Add, edit or delete Sessions ...................................................................................................87

6.4 Session Configuration ....................................................................................................................88

6.4.1 Application Launcher ............................................................................................................... 89

6.4.2 Setup ....................................................................................................................................... 89

6.4.3 Lock Screen .............................................................................................................................89

6.4.4 Sound Control ..........................................................................................................................89

6.4.5 ICA ...........................................................................................................................................90

6.4.5.1 Server ..............................................................................................................................90

6.4.5.2 Application ....................................................................................................................... 90

6.4.5.3 Logon ..............................................................................................................................91

6.4.5.4 Window ...........................................................................................................................91

6.4.5.5 Firewall ............................................................................................................................92

6.4.5.6 Options ............................................................................................................................ 92

6.4.6 ICA - Program Neighborhood ..................................................................................................94

6.4.7 RDP .........................................................................................................................................95

6.4.7.1 Server ..............................................................................................................................95

6.4.7.2 Application ....................................................................................................................... 95

6.4.7.3 Logon ..............................................................................................................................96

6.4.7.4 Window ...........................................................................................................................96

6.4.7.5 Options ............................................................................................................................ 97

6.4.8 Browser ...................................................................................................................................98

6.4.8.1 Mozilla .............................................................................................................................98

6.4.8.1.1 Kiosk Mode .............................................................................................................98

6.4.9 Powerterm (Terminal Emulation) .............................................................................................99

6.4.10 XTERM (Local Application) ..................................................................................................100

6.4.11 Application via RSH .............................................................................................................100

6.4.12 Application via SSH .............................................................................................................101

7 Appendix: Hardware Configuration 103

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1 Introduction

Welcome

Congratulations on purchasing one of the MAXDATA Linux-based Thin Client models. The MAXDATA Thin Clients are composed of state-of-the-art hardware and an operating system based on the MAXDATA Flash Linux Technology. We have done our best to deliver an excellent product and we promise to provide support and service of the same quality. Please refer to the “Software Feature Comparison List” on page 2 to get an overview of the supported software features and protocols of the different MAXDATA Thin Client models.

How to use this Guide

In this MAXDATA User‘s Manual we describe the setup screens and options as well as the boot procedure. We do not describe common functionalities like TCP/IP, NFS, SMB, XDMCP, DHCP, and BOOTP etc. If you have any questions concerning these matters please ask your system administrator or if you would like to know more about protocols please refer to the according documentation

This guide is divided into the following chapters:

1. Introduction Welcome and User Guide Information

2. Software Features Quick Overview of the Software Feature

3. Quick Installation Instructions for a Quick Installation

4. Boot Procedure Information about the Boot Process

5. Setup Conﬁguration of the Global Settings

6. Application Launcher Conﬁguration of particular Session Types

7. Appendix Hardware Information

 IMPORTANT NOTE:

Chapter 4 “Boot Procedure” and the major part of chapter 5 “Setup” are valid for all MAXDATA Linux based Thin Clients without separation into device-speciﬁc sections. Software features (better known as “Software Feature Comparison List”; see next page) to see which sections of chapter 6 Client model.

Since the MAXDATA FALCON 300 L model supports nearly all available features, we have used it as the reference for screenshots of windows and dialog-boxes.

All shown screenshots and descriptions based on ﬁrmware version 3.04.200. In case you need further support that your dealer or distributor cannot provide, please contact us

via our website www.maxdata.com.

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Please refer the list of supported

(“Application Launcher”) are relevant for your particular MAXDATA Thin

2 Supported Software Features

MAXDATA Model Name FALCON 200 L FALCON 300 L

Embedded Operating System

ICA Client Version 8.2 8.2

Citrix Program Neighborhood Full PN Full PN

RDP Client Version

PowerTerm Emulation Suite

Kerberos (within PowerTerm)

SAP Gui - -

X11R6

XDMCP (number of max. displays) 2 4

Extended Local Xfonts

Font Service (XC + NFS)

CONNECTIVITY

SMB / NFS Mounting

Devicemapping Daemon

ThinPrint Client

Printing via Line Printer (LP)

Printing via TCP/IP

Local Browser Firefox Mozilla

Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

Acrobat Reader

Media Player - -

Flash Player

Real Player - -

INTERNET

Messenger -

PPTP (VPN)

PPPOE (DSL)

Cisco VPN

Smartcard Application

USB Hotplug Automounting Feature

MISC

KVK Support

Full Remote Managability

Shadowing / VNC

Remote RSH / SSH Access

ADMIN

Setup via Bootp / DHCP

PXE Netboot

Flash Linux Flash Linux

5.1 5.1

- -

 Note: Hardware Conﬁguration

In the appendix you will ﬁnd a detailed overview of the hardware conﬁgurations and technical speciﬁcations of the different models.

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3 Quick Installation

If you carry out the following steps, the terminal can be installed in your network environment within a few minutes.

• Connect the terminal to a VGA monitor, an AT compatible keyboard with PS/2 or USB connector, a PS/2 or USB mouse, the LAN via RJ45 and AC power.

• Turn on the terminal and wait until the graphical desktop has started (around 30 seconds) and the window of the application launcher appears on the screen. Highlight the setup entry and start the Setup either by pressing the START button or double clicking on the setup entry.

• Select your keyboard layout in the “Input/Keyboard” menu.

• Select your display settings in the “Display” menu.

• Complete the terminal setup program by entering a local IP address in the “Network” sec tion or keep the default DHCP mode for automatic network conﬁguration.

• Finally “save” the settings, press “OK” and conﬁrm with “Yes”.

The unit will reboot now and will come up with the new settings.

 Note:

For detailed session conﬁguration refer to Chapter 6.4. Virtually every setting is “equipped” with a meaningful Tool Tip. Simply move the pointer over the

setting/option you want to know more about and wait a second.

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4 Boot Procedure

4.1 System BIOS

The BIOS looks for extensions in the appropriate memory area. If there is a DOC (Disk On Chip) in use, the BIOS extension will be detected and executed. If there is a DOM (Disk On Module) or CF (Compact Flash) in your unit, they are IDE devices and directly treated as hard disks. The next step is the execution of the master boot record, which starts a secondary stage loader.

4.2 Secondary Stage Loader and Boot Menu

The secondary stage loader provides the user with a menu, which is reached by pressing the “ESC”key when the “Loading Kernel …” message appears on the screen. You can then choose between 3 boot-options and the possibility to reset the Thin Client to its factory defaults.

• Quiet Boot

• Verbose Boot

• Emergency Boot (setup only)

• Reset to factory defaults

4.2.1 Quiet Boot

“Quiet Boot” is the standard boot mode; it suppresses all messages from the kernel and starts up the graphical desktop.

4.2.2 Verbose Boot

If the “Verbose Boot” is chosen, the boot messages are shown and you will have a diagnostic shell, from which common debug commands (like “ifconﬁg” etc) can be executed. To leave this shell type “init 3” and the boot process continues.

4.2.3 Emergency Boot

If you choose “Emergency Boot” (setup only with standard parameter values), the secondary stage loader looks for a bootable system in the ﬂash and continues the boot process as in the other boot modes. Emergency Boot basically starts the X Server without the network driver at a resolution of 640 x 480 - 60 Hz and ﬁnally starts directly into the setup. This is very useful, if you selected a too high screen resolution, or chose a wrong mouse type.

4.2.4 Reset to default factory settings

All your personal settings including your password and conﬁgured sessions will be lost if you choose this option. Before the reset will be applied, a warning message is displayed on the screen where you have to explicitely conﬁrm your decision. If the terminal is protected by an administrator password, you will be prompted to enter it. In case this password is not known anymore, you will have to contact us via our website www.maxdata.com. Provide the displayed “terminal key” and the stated ﬁrmware version and of course your contact data. Our support will provide a so called “reset to factory defaults key” for this speciﬁc unit. (Every key is valid for one single unit only, to keep this process the most convenient, but still secure.)

4.3 Networking

After loading the kernel the network conﬁguration follows. Three different ways can be chosen to include the terminal into the network environment. According to the settings of the terminal DHCP, BOOTP or manual conﬁgured IP address can be used.

4.4 X Server

The last step of the boot procedure is the start of the X-Server and the local window manager.

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5 Setup (Global Settings)

After the boot procedure has completed, such a desktop will be displayed on the screen. The “Application Launcher” starts automatically because it‘s set to “autostart & restart” by default. Because the “Setup” program is the central conﬁguration tool for all global settings of the Thin Client, a “Setup”-Session is also predeﬁned.

5.1 Starting the Setup

You can reach the Setup in three different ways:

• Select the “Setup” entry in the “Application Launcher” and double click it or press the “Start” button in the lower left corner of the window.

• Click on the “MAXDATA” icon in the very lower left corner and in the popup select “Setup”.

• Clicking on any free space on the desktop with the right mouse button will cause a dropdown list to appear; again select the “Setup” entry to proceed.

These are the default settings to reach the Setup. You can conﬁgure it to be reachable in every com bination of this three possibilities within the “Application Launcher” (see Chapter 6).

5.1.1 Leaving the setup

In general, every particular setup page provides an “OK”, “Cancel” and “Save” button.

After all conﬁgurations in a particular setup section are made and you want to save your settings without leaving the setup program,

click on the “Save” button. If you did not change any settings and you want to exit the setup, click on the “Cancel” button. In case you changed settings, leaving the setup with “OK” will prompt you with the above “Apply Settings” Popup. Decide if you want to let the changes take effect immediately (“Yes”), save and let it become effective on next reboot (“No”), or “Cancel” to stay within setup.

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5.2 General

When the “MAXDATA Setup” has been started, ﬁrst the “General” page appears on the screen. Some system information additionally to the product name are provided on this page. Some vital informations like the ﬁrmware version, the memory size (RAM) and the ﬂash size.

• Language Select the appropriate language from the list. (Currently “German” and “English” only.

 Note:

The chosen language is the user interface language, so it‘s valid for all local applications.

• Tooltips These are small dropdown windows with a short description of the pointed menu entry. This tooltips

open up if you stay on a menu entry with your mouse pointer for the entered amount of “Tooltip Delay” time (in tenth of seconds).

• Set Time and Date …

Click on the “Set Time and Date” button to open up this dialog-box.

Make your changes and conﬁrm it by pressing the “Set time and Date” button once, then close this page.

If such a Time Server is available in your network, you may also use the “Network Time Protocol” (NTP) to request the proper time and date automatically during each bootup

Setup (Global Settings)

5.3 Input

5.3.1 Keyboard

• Keyboard Layout

Select your “keyboard layout” here. The layout will be valid for all parts of the

system including emulations, window sessions and X applications. (Table to the

right shows all currently supported layouts.)

• Keyboard Layout

Choose your keyboard type from the available

from this drop box:

• Character Repeat

In this section you can set the auto repeat behavior for the keyboard:

o Repeat Delay Sets the delay time (in milliseconds) between pressing a key and the start

of the auto repeat mode.

o Repeat Rate Sets the number of repeated characters per second.

• Enable Dead Keys

Enable this function if the chosen keyboard layout uses dead keys for special

characters.

• Disable Xkeyboard extension

Activating this button disables the language speciﬁc keymappings of the local

X-Server. (Thus you will in fact have US keyboard layout.)

Within an XDM connection, keys may though be mapped by the server.

• Start with Numlock on

Enable this checkbox, if you want Numlock to be activated during the boot process automatically.

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5.3.2 Mouse

• Mouse Type and Mouse Port Set the type and port of the attached mouse

device from these two drop down boxes:

• Lefthand mode Changes the orientation of the mouse to left handed by swapping the mouse buttons.

• Emulate 3 Button Mouse (not supported with serial mouse) Enable/disable the emulation of the third (middle) mouse button for mice which only have two physi

cal buttons. The third button is emulated by pressing both buttons simultaneously.

• Emulate 3 Button Timeout Sets the timeout (in milliseconds) the driver waits before deciding if two buttons where pressed

“simultaneously”, if 3 button emulation is enabled.

• Hide Cursor In case you don‘t use a mouse or you want to show some self-running presentations, you may set a

mouse cursor idle timout. To completely disable the Mouse Cursor, set timeout to zero.

• Mouse Resolution Here you set the resolution of your mouse in counts per inch.

• Mouse double click time The maximum interval (in milliseconds) between two successive mouse clicks to recognize a double

click may be altered here.

• Mouse double click Range The maximum distance (in pixels) between two successive mouse clicks to recognize a double click

may be altered here.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.3.3 Touchscreen



Note:

To get into and navigate within the setup, it‘s recommended to do the initial

attached Mouse. You may also use the “Emergency Boot” and navigate through the setup with the

keyboard by using t

• Touch Screen Type

The supported types are currently “Elographics” and “MicroTouch”.

• Touch Screen already calibrated

After enabling the touchscreen functionality, you have to calibrate it minimal once. As long as you do

not activate this checkbox, the calibration will automatically start at every boot up.

• Swap X and Y Values

Activate this option in case you rotate the panel by 90 degrees (Portrait mode).

• Minimal and maximal X and Y Values.

These will be set by the calibration tool. (You may also manipulate them manually)

• Untouch Delay

The maximal time (in milliseconds) allowed between two touch events still beeing interpreted as

one. E.g. while moving Windows by drag&drop, unintentional untouch events may occur. Increasing

this value prevents the Thin Client from interpreting this as two separate touchs.

• Report Delay

Deﬁnes the time (in milliseconds), the Screen must be touched to recognize it as touch event.

• Baud Rate

Set the communication speed via the selected port. (In doubt, refer your panel‘s manual.)

he cursor arrows, t

ab and space bar.

conﬁguration with an

• Touch Screen Interface Port

You can attach the Touch Screen to wether COM1 or COM2. Set the selected port here.

• Set driver speciﬁc defaults

Click here once after changing the Touch Screen Type or to reset the settings to it‘s defaults.

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5.4 Display

5.4.1 Global Display Settings

• Set driver speciﬁc defaults This menu allows you to specify the dekstop color depth from these available:

- 8 bits per pixel (256 colors)

- 16 bits per pixel (High color / 65k colors)

- 24 bits per pixel (True color / 16,7million colors).



Note:

Make sure that the display unit connected to the Thin Client supports case you accidently set it too high, refer section 4.2.3 “Emergency Boot”.)

Desktop Area and Refresh Frequency

• Physical Desktop Size and Frequency Select the needed resolution from this menu. The available resolutions depend on

the previously chosen color depth and the hardware model of your Thin Client.

• Virtual Desktop Size The virtual resolution is used for panning. That means that the virtual screen is bigger than the physical screen. So the “Virtual Desktop Size” can never be smaller than the chosen entry of the “Physical Desktop Size”.

 Note:

Both of the desktop size entries but also the value of the color each other, as well as the used hardware (Thin

Client model).

depth depend on

the selected settings! (In

Screensaver and DPMS

• Blanking Screensaver If the screensaver function is activated a blanking screensaver is used after the

period of time (in minutes) you have deﬁned.

• DPMS See 5.4.2.2.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.4.2 Advanced Display Settings

Depending on on the Thin Client model, you may start up to four local X servers.

By default, the ﬁrst X server is enabled and preconﬁgured. The settings in the dialog-box

are identical with the global display settings (see previous page).

Changes in display 1 will automatically be set in the global display page and vice versa.

“Display 2”, “Display 3” and “Display 4” are the corresponding pages of the three additional X

server, which are disabled by default. (Not all models do in fact have four but only one additional.)

The available dialog-boxes are all the same for the four displays (except the “enable Display” check-

box), so we used “Display 1” as reference for the descriptions.



Note:

Remember t

RAM, you must be careful here! In doubt, upgrade the installed RAM.

hat every display consumes a certain amount of memory! If

your unit is low on

“Display 1”

5.4.2.1 Resolution

• Access Control

If enabled (default) this option prevents other hosts to have access to your display (see also section

5.4.2.4 for details on how to grant access for speciﬁc hosts).

• Exit sequence

This option allows you to disable the sequence <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Backspace> to exit the X server.

• Console Switching

Press this button to disable the console switching with <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Fn>

• Alternate switching sequence

Here you can choose between <Alt>+<SysRq>+<Fn> and <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<Fn> to switch between

displays.

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5.4.2.2 DPMS

If your monitor supports “Display Power Management Signaling” it allows more functions (energy saving) than just a screensaver.

There are three different modes called are activated after their adjustable time loops (in minutes) ran off.

Enabling DPMS with the default time settings activates the “power off mechanism” of the monitor as follows:

After 10 minutes the display switches to “blank” (Standby mode), after further 10 minutes it sets the ﬁrst current savings level (Suspend mode: Switch off the high voltage), and after further 10 minutes the monitor changes into the “Off” mode.



Note:

All levels are passed through naturally only if t runtime.

“Standby mode”, “Suspend mode” and “Off mode”, which

he X server receives no ne

w inputs during this

Setup (Global Settings)

5.4.2.3 XDMCP

Click the corresponding button to enable the XDMCP functionality for the “Display 1”.

• Connection type

Select the appropriate “Connection Type” here.

If you select

vided from the ﬁrst XDMCP server answering on the broadcast

request.

In the case you select

at boot-up time. From this list you must select the host which provides the “Graphical Logon”.

• Name or IP of Server

If you select

Specify the Name or the IP address of the XDMCP server you want to use.

In the “direct” mode you will get your “Graphical Logon” directly from the XDMCP server you have

speciﬁed in the entry ﬁeld, in the case you have selected the “indirect” mode a list of available

XDMCP servers will be provided from the server you speciﬁed.



Note:

Make sure that your Display Manager Daemon (XDM, KDM, GDM, …) is running and the access

permission is given on the remote host.

“broadcast” the “Graphical Logon” will be pro-

“indirect via localhost” connection type a list of XDMCP hosts is displayed

“direct” or “indirect” connection type, the “Name or IP of Server” ﬁeld is enabled.

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5.4.2.4 Access Control

The Thin Client provides an access control that is activated by default. If you disable this “Access Control” it will be possible for everybody from any UNIX host to have access to your terminal‘s display.

• Fixed X-key You can allow speciﬁc users to get permanent remote access to the Thin Client. Therefore you need to activate this option, press the “calculate” button and enter that 32 digit key into the Xauthority ﬁle of the user‘s machine.

List of Trusted X Hosts

Click the “Add…” button to open the “X Host Entry” box. Enter the name of the remote host (not the IP address) you want to add and conﬁrm with “OK”.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.4.2.5 Appearance

The following ﬁve dialog-boxes allow you to conﬁgure the appearance and the behavior of the “Desk-

top”, “Windows”, “Task Bar”, “Pager (Virtual Screens)” and the “Start Menu”.



Note:

Except the “Pager”, these masks are not described in detail, please refer t

o the tool tips.

Desktop

The “Desktop” dialog-box contains two additional properties of the mouse behavior, allows you to

manipulate the tool tip timings and the appearance of the desktop.

Window

The “Window” dialog-box enables you to deﬁne the window snap behavior, the style how to map/

unmap windows and to enable/disable the animation of window minimizing and maximizing.

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Task Bar

The “Task Bar” dialog-box allows you enable/disable the usage of the task bar and to deﬁne its behavior.

Pager

(See next page, please)

The “Menu” dialog-box allows you to deﬁne the behavior of the start menu.

Setup (Global Settings)

Pager

The “Pager” dialog-box allows you to enable/disable the usage of multiple “Virtual Desktops” like it

is common in Linux.

The “Pager” is a window with “Virtual Screens” that you can use to easily move from one open

application to another. This window is displayed in the upper right corner of the desktop screen.

It could contain a single “Virtual Screen”, or a higher number of “Virtual Screens”.

By using the Pager, you can for instance switch between full-screen Applications by one sole Mouse

click.

To give a little example:

This exemplary Pager contains three virtual desktops.

The ﬁrst of them is active (dark grey) and shows the “Application Launcher” and the “Setup”. On

the second one is a full-screened Browser window.

Two different local shells are running on number three.

Now instead of minimizing and maximizing all that sessions or toggling them via keycombina

tions, you simply mouse-click on the desired Screen and get back to it exactly like you left it before

(except after Reboot).

Have a look at the tool tips in order to modify the pager to your needs.



Note:

Enable the option “Stay always on top” to always have it on top of every window.



Note:

All running sessions of all virtual screens will be accessable via the task bar in each of the

screens.

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5.4.2.6 XC Font Service

If you require fonts in addition to those that the Thin Client provides, the XC Font Service can be used.

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Note:

This is a service that has to be installed and completely conﬁgured on the server.

The advantage of using the XC Font Service instead of NFS is the better performance of XC Font Service.

Click the “Enable XC Font Service” button to enable the following entry ﬁelds.

• XC Font Server Specify the server on which the XC Font Service is running.

• Port Number Specify the port number where the font service is listening. (default is port number 7100)

• Prefer Local Fonts Enable this option to use local fonts before asking the font server.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.4.2.7 NFS Font Service

Another way of importing additional fonts is the usage of the NFS Font service. In addition, there

is the advantage that the mount point for the fonts is conﬁgurable, which is necessary for certain

remote applications that search for their fonts in a speciﬁc path.

If you want to use the “NFS Font Service”, you have to deﬁne and enable an “NFS Font Path Entry”,

which will be added into

To do so, click the

“Add…” button to open the following “NFS Font Path Entry” dialog-box:

“List of NFS Mount Font Directories”.

• Local Path

Specify the “Local Path” to the mount

point.

• NFS Server

Enter the name or the IP address of

the server which provides the font

directories via NFS.

• Remote Path

Specify the path on the server side

where the fonts are available.

• Prefer Local Fonts

Enable this option to use local fonts

before asking the font server.

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Don‘t forget to click the “Enable” button to activate your entry.

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On server side you have to export the font directory via NFS read only for the Thin Client.

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5.5 Network

5.5.1 Main Network Settings

The main “Network” page allows you to conﬁgure the network settings on the Thin Client side. Automatic network set up by using DHCP and BOOTP protocols, but also manual network conﬁgu

ration can be chosen.

• DHCP DHCP stands for “Dynamic Host Conﬁguration Protocol” and enables the Thin Client to extract its

IP-address, network mask, DNS, gateway and other network conﬁgurations from a DHCP server.

• BOOTP Using BOOTP allows the Thin Client to obtain the IP address, network mask, DNS, gateway and

other network conﬁgurations from a BOOTP server database.

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Note:

The transfer of either a setup.ini or boot script is supported. BOOTP is boot image from a server and to boot this image like the classical meaning of using BOOTP suggests.

• Specify an IP Address Click this button to set the network settings manually instead of looking for a DHCP server. Make

sure that the ﬁxed IP you enter is not accupied by another machine in your network. If you have to

“Gateway” to route the data packets to and from the target network, so click the “enable”

use a button and enter the gateway IP address.

• Terminal Name Enter the local name of the Thin Client, otherwise the name “MAXDATA-<MAC-address>” will

begenerated.

not used to get a

• DNS Click “Enable DNS” button to conﬁgure the Domain Name Service. Set the “Default Domain” the

unit should work in and the IP of up to two Name Servers, which will be queried after another.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2 Advanced Networks Settings

5.5.2.1 LAN Interfaces

By default the “onboard” network hardware is used and you have conﬁgured the basic network

settings in the “Network” page described before.

Now after you have entered the “Advanced Network Settings” section this settings are taken over to

the corresponding “eth0” dialog-box of the “LAN Interfaces” page.

There are three additional dialog-boxes to conﬁgure the optional “LAN Interfaces” as there are:

The conﬁguration masks of eth1 and tr0 are exactly the same then eth0 (except the network

speed).

• th1

If you installed an optional ethernet card in the available

PCI/ISA slot (only available in MAXDATA FALCON 300 L),

use this dialog-box to conﬁgure the LAN interface called

“eth1”.

In case you encounter problems with the Auto Sense

function in your network, you can set a ﬁxed network

speed.

See the box to the right for possible speeds for both,

eth0 and eth1.

• tr0

If you have installed an optional Token-Ring card in

the available PCI/ISA slots (only available in MAXDATA

FALCON 300 L) use this dialog-box to conﬁgure the LAN

interface called “tr0”.

Like described above (“eth1”), you may set a ﬁxed speed

for Token Ring as well.

• wlan0

(see next page)

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Wireless LAN conﬁguration

If you have installed an optional Wireless-LAN card in the available PCI/ISA slots (only available in MAXDATA FALCON 300 L) use this dialog-box to conﬁgure the LAN interface called “wlan0”. In case you want to use a Wireless-LAN PCMCIA card, you can use the onboard PCMCIA adapter of the MAXDATA FALCON 300 L.

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Note:

These dialog-boxes are not described closer, because they are w tool tips. Please also refer the manual of your WLAN equip

ell explained by the available

ment.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.2 Analog Modem

To set up a WAN connection with the Thin Client you can use an analog modem.

There are different modem types, that can not be used with our Thin Clients. Especially so called

WIN modems will not work. All external modems that are connected to the COM ports or internal

modems that can be conﬁgured to behave like an external modem will work. (if possible, prefer

modems with a “Rockwell” chip)

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Internal Modems are only supported by MAXDATA FALCON 300 L.

The following dialog-box allows you to conﬁgure the basic modem settings and speciﬁc PPP con-

nections:

• Modem Port

Specify the serial port where the modem is connected . (use COM 1 + COM2 for external modems

and COM 3 + COM 4 for internal modems)

• Port Speed

Specify the speed of the port where the modem is connected.

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Note:

This is not the speed of the modem, but the speed of the communication bet

Thin Client in baud. This means this speed should be set higher than the modem speed to guar-

antee that data transfer can run with full modem

• Dial Mode

Specify the dial mode of your phone line.

• Initstring

Specify a special initstring for your analog modem, if the standard initstring does not work.

• Set default route

This option can be used to set the default route to the PPP connections.

To create a new PPP connection, click the “Add…” button and the following dialog-box appears on

the screen (see next page):

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PPP Provider Settings

• Phone Number Specify the phone number of your provider.

• PPP Login and Password Select the authentication type for this modem connection

from this list: (Only a few provider use the CHAP method although it is the safer one because of the usage of encryption.)

• Automatic DNS This option allows you to choose between automatic or manual DNS conﬁguration.

If you choose manual conﬁguration you have to enter the IP address of your provider‘s server”.

• Automatic IP This option allows to choose between automatic or manual IP address conﬁguration. The default setting is set to automatic, which means that the Thin Client gets its IP address dynamically from the provider‘s DHCP server. In case you have deactivated the automatic mode, you have to enter the Thin Clients “Local IP” and your providers “Server IP” manually.

For details on the “

Title” Tab, see Chapter 6.4, please.

“Name-

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.3 ISDN

The second way to set up a WAN connection with the MAXDATA Thin Client is using an ISDN card.

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Note:

The currently supported ISDN cards are the AVM Fritz (version 1.0 and 2.0 as

combi card) and the U.S. Robotics PCI card. This feature is avai

300 L which provides the additional

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Note:

Because the ISDN conﬁguration is nearly the same like the Modem conﬁguration, we only describe

the differing resp. additional features / options below.

PCI slot.

lable only for the MAXDATA FALCON

well as the ISDN/DSL

• MSN (Multiple Subscriber Number)

In this ﬁeld you have to provide the MSN of your ISDN installation. This number is regularly built by

the phone number being used for the device without predial.

• Connection Timeout

Specify the period of time (in seconds) of inactivity after which the ISDN connection will be discon

nected automatically by the Thin Client.

• Enable Autodial during Boot

Enable this checkbox to make the client connect to your host before the desktop boots up.

To create a new connection, click the “Add…” button and the following dialog-box appears on the

screen (see next page):

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ISDN Provider Settings

Enter your provider settings here.

Options (Callback)

The callback feature enables your Provider to call back the Thin Client (mainly used for home workers). Please refer the expressive tool tips for details and syntax.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.4 ADSL

• Enable Autostart during Boot

In oder to to set up a fully autostart-conﬁgured client, you may need to dial in ﬁrst. Enable this check

box to make the client connect to your host before the desktop boots up.

Via the

“Add…” button, you set up new connections:

First, enter your account‘s conﬁguration. Next, select if you connect via a DSL modem connected to

the network interface or if you use an internal PCI device. Also, set if the DSL connection should be

network interface eth0 or eth1 and the protocol to be used.

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The options tab enables you to deﬁne name service and IP conﬁguration for the DSL connection. Usually, this will be handed over by the RAS server of the provider, so by default, both DNS and IP are set to “automatic” by default.

The tuning tab lets you basically set two things; the connection‘s duration and network packet size and error handling.

• Persistant Connection and On-Demand Connection Select, if your connection should be kept or only be used on demand only if needed.

If on-demand is chosen, the connection will disconnect after the given timeout (in seconds).

• MTU and MRU Set the maximum size of pakets (maximum transfer units and maximum receive units).

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.5 PPTP

PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol) is one of the most common virtual private networks (VPN)

protocol enableing remote users to access corporate networks securely.

• Enable Autostart during Boot

In oder to to set up a fully autostart-conﬁgured client, you may need to dial in ﬁrst. Enable this check

box to make the client connect to your host before the desktop boots up.

Cklick the

“Add…” button to set up new connections:

Enter the necessary settings to dial in to the RAS server on the desired remote station. Further,

you select the network device and if a dialup connection should be used.

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In the options tab you deﬁne name service and IP settings for the PPTP connection. As this will usually be handed over by the RAS server of the remote station, both DNS and IP are set to “automatic” by default.

The following three setup pages let you set up additional network routes.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.6 Cisco VPN

Please refer the third party documentation “Cisco_VPN_Client_User_Guide.pdf” for details on proper

conﬁguration and syntax details.

We do only show the according setup pages and give a rough description here.

Initially, set the host to authenticate against.

You also set the desired connection to be used here.

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Enter the account‘s details here.

Certiﬁcate global settings like the URL and domain for them have to be set in this tab. Click the

“Enroll” button for the certiﬁcate‘s details (see next page).

Setup (Global Settings)

This tab is for the certiﬁcate‘s very details.

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5.5.2.7 Routing

Use this dialog-box to specify additional network routes, if necessary. (The Interface ﬁeld needs “eth0”, “eth1”, “tr0” or “wlan0”.)

Alltogether you can deﬁne up to additional 5 routes .

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.8 Hosts

If no DNS (Domain Name Service) is used you can provide a list of hosts to translate between

their “IP addresses”, “Full Qualiﬁed Hostname” and “Short Hostname”.

Use this dialog-box to create this

“Host List”.

Click “Add…” to open the following “

Host Entry” dialogbox:

Host entry

• IP Address

Enter the IP address of the host you

want to add.

• Full Qualiﬁed Hostname

Enter the “Full Qualiﬁed Hostname”

(e.g.mailserver.maxdata.de>).

• Short Hostname

Enter the “Short Hostname” (e.g.

<mailserver>).

After all entries are made please conﬁrm this by clicking “OK”.

Now the speciﬁed host will be added to the “Host List”.

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5.5.2.9 NFS

NFS (Network File System) enables you to share ﬁles via the network. The NFS server exports a ﬁle system and the NFS client (your Thin Client) associates this to a mount point of its own ﬁle system. So afterwards the exported ﬁle system will be a logical part of the Thin Client‘s ﬁle system, while it physically remains on serverside.

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Note:

To set up NFS mount, the server has to be conﬁgured ﬁrst. For detailed infor refer to the corresponding “man pages” of your server operating system.

Use this dialog-box to deﬁne NFS mounts on the Thin Client side:

mation about “NFS”

Click “Add…” to open the following “

NFS Mount Entry” dialogbox:.

NFS Mount Entry

• Enabled By default the “NFS Mount Entry” is ena

bled and mounted at every system start. (Disable the entry if the shared ﬁle system is not needed permanently.)

• Local Mount Point Specify the “Local Mount Point” where the

share should be mounted in the local ﬁle system of the Thin Client.

• Server Enter the name or the IP address of the

NFS server that provides the share.

• Directory Name Enter the directory name as it is exported

by the NFS server.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.5.2.10 SMB

The SMB protocol is very useful because it is used by Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Win-

dows 2000 and Window XP to share disks and printers. So as Unix (including Linux) can also handle

this protocol with the Samba suite tools, it is possible to share disks and printers with Windows

hosts.

So it is possible on the Thin Client to mount SMB shares from Windows or Unix Samba hosts.

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Note:

The SMB (Server Message Block) protocol is only used for sharing ﬁles over the network (no print-

ers). It is necessary that the shares you want to mount are created on the Windows or Unix host

ﬁrst!

Click “Add…” to open the following “SMB Mount Entry” dialog-box:

SMB Mount Entry

• Local Mount Point

Specify the “Local Mount Point” where the

share should be mounted in the local ﬁle

system of the Thin Client.

• Server

For a Windows host, the NetBIOS name

has to be entered here. In case of a Unix

samba host, the host name or IP address

is to be used.

• Share Name

Enter the directory name as it is exported

by the Windows or Unix samba host.

• User Name / Password

Enter the user name and the password

of your account on the Windows or Unix

samba host.

• Enabled

By default the “SMB Mount Entry” is enabled and mounted at every system start.

• User writeable

Activating this also enables the desktop user to write data (otherwise, only “root” is).

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5.5.2.11 Filetransfer

• Enable setup from remote Server In case you use BOOTP+TFTP or DHCP+TFTP to spread the “setup.ini” or boot scripts, this option

enables the transfer from a remote server at boot time.

• Filetransfer timeout Deﬁnes, how long the Thin Client should try to get it‘s conﬁguration from the server (in seconds).

In case it does not succeed within the chosen time, the local conﬁguration is used

• Disable on Update This option is important for ﬁrmware updates.

Because a reboot takes place during the update process, there might be a heavy mixup of conﬁgura tions, if the Thin Client would still get it‘s setup from remote. This could end up in a half updated unit that has to be reconﬁgured completely or even worse.

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Note:

Leave t interactions of the update and the ﬁletransfer processes.

he “Disable on Update” option untouched while you do not comple

tely understand the

Setup (Global Settings)

5.6 Update

The “Update” page shows you a simple dialog for updating the Thin Client‘s ﬁrmware via FTP.

The common procedure to update your Thin Client(s) is as follows:

1) Download the wanted ﬁrmware image from our FTP-Server http://ftp.maxdata.de/t_index. asp?info=/info/MAXDATA_Falcon_Thin_Clients (there are sub-directories named after the models).

2) Unpack the *.zip ﬁle, as this is the usual way we provide updates.

3) Put all ﬁles into the designated directory on your local FTP server

4) Enter the necessary settings (see below for details) and press “Update now”. Now the update process will advance completely automated.

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The default values “update.maxdata.de” etc are exemplary only, you will not be able to update directly from our FTP Server! The update procedure cannot be done via PPP /ISDN connections.

The following information must be provided in order to start the update process:

• Server Name

Enter the name or the IP address of the used FTP server.

• Server Path

Enter the name of the directory, you stored the update ﬁles in (relatively from the FTP root directory).

• User Name

Enter the User ID / FTP account name.

• Password

Enter the corresponding password of that user / account.

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5.7 Sessions

In circumstances when the “Application Launcher” itself is unaccessable, you may manipulate your sessions directly via the setup here.

Refer Chapter 6 “Application Launcher” for details on how to conﬁgure your sessions.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.8 ICA (Global ICA Settings)

This section describes how to conﬁgure the “Global ICA Settings”, that will be valid for all ICA sessions.

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These are the default values for all ICA sessions. Most of this properties (especially color depth, resolution and server-IP or name) can be altered for each session separately (see section 6.4.6)

5.8.1 Window

• Default Number of Colors

You are allowed to set the default number of window colors to 256 (default), Thousands (hi color) or Millions (true color). The color depth your sessions can run in also depends on your Metaframe server

• Approximate Color

Because of differences in the color palettes used between the ICA Client (and the application it displays) and the “Thin Client” desktop, an annoying ﬂashing can occur when switching context on a pseudo-color display. The ICA Clients color approximation scheme eliminates this ﬂashing by using colors from the local desktop palette to display the ICA window session. Enable “Approximate Color” to eliminate color ﬂashing when switching context.

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This only applies if the X server is running in 8 bit color mode.

• Resolution

Set the default window size by adjusting the values for the the “Default Vertical Resolution”.

“Default Horizontal Resolution” and

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5.8.2 Server Location

• Server Location The “Server Location” (also called server browsing) provides a method for a network-connected

Citrix ICA Client to view a list of all Citrix servers and Published Applications that are accessable on the network and using the chosen browsing protocol. The default functionality for server location is “auto-locate” (broadcast). With the “Auto-Locate” func tion the ICA Client broadcasts a “Get nearest Citrix server” packet. The address of the ﬁrst Citrix sever to respond then functions as the master ICA browser.

You can also specify a separate which could be “TCP/IP”, “TCP/IP + HTTP” or “SSL/TLS + HTTPS”.

• TCP/IP If your network conﬁguration uses routers or gateways, or to eliminate additional network trafﬁc by

the broadcasts, you can set speciﬁc server addresses for the Citrix servers from whom the list of available servers and/or published applications should be requested.

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You can place more than one address in the “Address List” to continue allo and function even if one or several of the servers is/are not available.

• TCP/IP + HTTP You can also retrieve the information of available Citrix Servers and Published Applications across a

ﬁrewall by using TCP/IP + HTTP server location.

“Address List” for each network protocol (Browser Protocol),

wing clients to connect

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“TCP/IP + HTTP” server location does not support the “Auto-Locate” function.

• SSL/TLS + HTTPS Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption provide server authentica

tion, encryption of data stream and message integrity checks.

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Note:

If you attempt to make a non-SSL/TLS connection to a SSL/TLS server, you and a “connection failed” message will be displayed.

will not be connected

Setup (Global Settings)

5.8.3 Hotkey

Use the “Hotkey” page to deﬁne alternative key combinations for the common hotkeys used within ICA sessions. For example in MS Windows, the key combination <Alt>+<F4> closes the current window. It is also working within ICA sessions.

If you choose to disable the “Alternate switching sequence” (see 5.4.2.1), many of this hotkey combinations will be occupied by the Xserver (esp. <Alt>+<Fx>).

Thereby you will have to use the alternate sequences or map the affected combina tions to different ones here to keep them available.

Any <Alt> key combination not used by your X Window manager may still be used as usual within the ICA session.

By default, the key alternatives are mapped to <Ctrl><Shift>+Key, but you can change the deﬁnitions by klicking on the drop down box “Modiﬁer on Client” and/or “Key on Client” of the particular combination.

The two little pictures to the right show the possible keys.

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If you want to use the PC key combination <Ctrl><Alt><Delete> during the ICA session, use the key combination <Ctrl><Alt><Enter> or <Ctrl><Alt><Return>.

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5.8.4 Drive Mapping

“Drive Mapping” makes any directory mounted on your Thin Client (including CDROMs and Floppy Disk Drives) available to you during ICA sessions on Citrix servers.

Use this page to specify which folders or drives to map at logon. This applies for all ICA connection sessions.

• Activate Drive Mapping This option allows you to temporary enable/disable the drive mapping. This gives you the advantage

not to loose your stored settings, but beeing able to switch it on/off.

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Note:

Local devices that should be used for drive mapping, ﬁrst have to be conﬁgured as device! (see

5.9.2)

How to conﬁgure a “Drive Mapping”:

Enable one of the three mappings to activate the corresponding entry ﬁelds. Then click on the corresponding button in the “Drive to map” column. Now select the drive letter, under which the local device or folder should be mapped. In case the drive letter you selected is not available on the Citrix server anymore, the speciﬁed directory or local drive will be mapped to the next free drive letter at logon.

In the “Local Drive Path” ﬁeld, set the path name of the local directory, the mapping should point to. When mapping a locally attached device, use the pre-deﬁned path names as offered by the drop-down box. These are the directories, the devices are mounted to by default at bootup (e.g. /autofs/ﬂoppy for a build-in Floppy Disk Drive).

Finally specify the access rights for the mapping. You can choose to grant “Read Access”, “Write access” or to “Ask User” for each map- ping separately.

(“Ask User” will prompt for read/write access on ﬁrst access per ICA session.)

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The same drive mappings and access settings will apply to all ICA connections.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.8.5 COM Ports

You can perform bi-directional mapping between serial devices that are attached to the Thin Client (e.g. scanners, serial printers, …) and the Citrix Server‘s COM ports. This enables programs running on the server to exchange data with the local devices.

• COM Port Devices

Select the COM port your device is attached to from this drop-down box:

/dev/ttyS0 stands for the local COM1 and /dev/ttyS1 stands for the local COM2. ttyS3 and ttyS4 are for potential addon cards plugged in the PCI/ISA slot, e.g. internal modem (MAXDATA FALCON 300 L only).

Your selection will be mapped to the virtual COM1, a second one will become virtual COM2 and so on.

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Note:

The behaviour details of the local COM port has to be conﬁgured in “Devices” (see 5.10.1). The conﬁguration and its assignment on server side has to be done within Metaframe

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5.8.6 Printer

In this tab, you conﬁgure the printer for ICA sessions. (For general printer conﬁguration, see section 5.11)

• Enable Client Printer Mapping This feature makes the locally attached printer of the Thin Client available within your ICA sessions

(assuming that it‘s not disabled from server side). Because the Thin Client will only spool the incoming print jobs, you have to install the printer on the

server. This is done in the familiar way (“Start” -> “Settings” -> “Printer” and so on…). The only thing you have to care of is that you have to be logged in from the terminal the printer is connected to as Administrator.

• Enable Printer Autocreation Metaframe XP on Windows Servers provides the feature to automatically createthe

printers when connecting to the server. To use this function, the Thin Client has to pro vide information about the chosen local printer (see 5.10.1) and the Microsoft Windows printer driver name for it.

The default value for the driver name here is “Citrix PCL4

Universal Driver

printers and is usually installed on the Metaframe Server anyway.

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Note:

Verify the conﬁguration of the attached printer itself ﬁrst (see 5.11.1)!

”, because that is working ﬁne for most

Setup (Global Settings)

5.8.7 Firewall

This “Firewall” page allows you to conﬁgure ICA connections through a ﬁrewall or a SOCKS proxy server. (Firewalls and SOCKS proxy servers are used on networks to improve security.)

• Use Alternate Address

If you are using ICA sessions to connect to a speciﬁc Citrix server behind a ﬁrewall, you have to activate this option. The Citrix server (usually) has a different IP in the local network than from the outside world.

(For details on server conﬁguration, look up the manual.)

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After enabling the alternate Adress, add the server in the “Address List” in the “Server Location” box of the “Global ICA Settings” (see 5.8.2).

• Connect via SOCKS or Secure Proxy Server

You can conﬁgure the ICA sessions to connect to a Citrix server through a SOCKS proxy server or a Citrix Secure Gateway (in relay mode).

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To make the “Secure Gateway” ﬁeld accessable, the “Browser Protocol” in the “Server Loca- tion” tab (see 5.8.2) has to be set to “SSL/TLS + HTTPS”.

“altaddr” command in your Metaframe admin

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5.8.8 Logon

In some environments you may encounter problems with load balancing. Use this local login module in order to avoid such. (User credentials will already be transmitted when connecting the Metaframe master browser.)

• Set clientname to user name Take over the client‘s name as ICA user name.

• Remember username and domain After you logged in successfully once, you only have to re-enter the password to log in if this box is

enabled.

• Show Domain Check this box.

• Relaunch mode As long as this feature is enabled, the login module will automatically restart after it was exited.

Domains

Add the domain(s) to be available. Multiple domains entered here will be available in the login module‘s domain drop box.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.8.9 Options

This page allows you to set additional options to tweak the general behaviour and performance.

• Use Server Redraw

This option enables the Citrix server to control the screen redraws.

• Allow Backing Store

Press this button to use the X server backing store functionality for hidden desktop windows.

• Disable Window Alert Sounds

Use this option to disable Windows Alert Sounds.

• Caching

Here you can manipulate the settings for the Bitmap Cache. This may considerably improve the performance of your ICA session(s) in case you are working with pictures that are displayed over and over again. Set the maximum size of local system memory (in kilobytes) to be used for caching, the minimum size of bitmaps to be cached and the directory the ﬁles should be stored locally.

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Note:

A too high setting might leave the Thin Client with too low memory for it‘s system and other applications! In doubt, you have the possibility to add RAM to your Thin Client.

• Scrolling control

Depending on the speed of your network or answering time of your server, you may encounter the effect (e.g. in EXCEL) that there is a delay between releasing the mouse button from a scroll bar and stopping scrolling locally. Setting a value of 100 or above here will probably eliminate this.

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5.9 RDP (Global RDP Settings)

5.9.1 Window

• Number of Colors This default applies to all your RDP sessions as long as you do not any or a differing color depth. Set

the default number of colors to 256 (default), Thousands (hi color) or Millions (true color).

• Window Size You can choose between a fullscreened session, a speciﬁc static

resolution or a percentage between 40 % and 95 %.

• Disable Backing Store This option allows you to choose the Backing Store mechanism

for hidden session-windows.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.9.2 Server

• RDP Protocol Level

Set the Protocol Level according to the server you are going to con nect to.

5.9.3 Drive Mapping

If you have mass storage devices attached, make them available to the user by mapping them here.

Check the “Enable” box, select the drive letter to be used and ﬁnally choose the device to map (see picture to the right).

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Refer Chapter 5.10 on how to set up the device(s) to map.

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5.9.4 COM Ports

As well as locally attached mass storage devices, you may also map the local COM ports of the Thin Client into the RDP session.

Enable COM port mapping and add the wanted port. /dev/ttyS0 stands for COM1 and /dev/ttyS1 for COM2. In case your units has an addon multiport PCI card, you may have more than 2 ports.

5.9.5 Printer

Set up the printer to be used within RDP session here (see next page for details, please).

Setup (Global Settings)

Choose the printer queue (lp+lp_lp, lp_com1, lp_com2 or lp_usb) and set the printer‘s name.

List of Printers

Here you can select your printer‘s brand and model. This sets the proper windows driver name for the printer to be mapped. (The most common printers are available.) Alternatively or in the rare case your printer is not in the list, deﬁne the printer driver manually.

5.9.6 Sound/Keyboard

Set the sound quality level you want to use (the higher the quality, the higher network trafﬁc will be caused!)

Also, you decide here, how to deal with keyboard strokes.

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5.9.7 Performance

In case of performance problems, disable some not necessarily needed graphical features.

5.9.8 Options

• Compress In low banwith environments, it‘s recommended to use compression in order to lower network trafﬁc. (Be aware that this consumes CPU power.)

• Disable Mouse Motion Events and Disable Mouse Drag Events Tell the client not to send “unnecessary” mouse moves to save performance.

• Client Name Specify a client name for TS identiﬁcation (by default is the machine‘s hostname is set).

• Reset License In case you need to remove the MS license from the unit, activate this checkbox and reboot.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.10 Devices

5.10.1 Serial Ports

This page allows you to deﬁne the parameters of the serial ports COM 1 and COM 2. Additionally you can also enable portmapping for them and LPT1.

• Speed

Select your input and output communication speed from the list. (Depends on the attached device and the program communicating with this port.)

• Parity

If a parity bit is used, select the type of parity bit from the list.

• Stop Bits

Decide whether one or two “Stop Bits” are used.

• Word Width

Select how many bits are used per byte.

• Use RTS/CTS Flow Control

Enable this ﬂow control type if you have to use hardware handshake.

• Use XON/XOFF Flow Control

Enable this type of ﬂow control if you want to use software ﬂow control by using start/stop charac ters.

• Map Device

You can map the four interfaces directly to a TCP/IP port. This feature is useful to access the Thin Cli ent‘s interfaces directly from remote. (The default values here are: 3001 for COM1, 3002 for COM2, 3003 for LPT1 and 3004 for the USBLP1.)

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5.10.2 USB Info

Attached USB devices will be shown here. In very rare cases, you need to press “Refresh” once.

5.10.3 USB Storage Hotplug

Specify the details on how to set USB devices. Most important is the number of potential devices, the drive letter assignment and what access (read and/or write) should be available to users within ICA sessions. By default, new attached devices will be autodetected, the terminal will beep once and a popup stasting that a new device was found will come up.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.10.4 Automount Devices

This page allows you to deﬁne and conﬁgure devices which will be mounted automatically when accessed.

• List of Automount Devices

This list gives you an overview of the “Automount Devices”. The most common devices (like Floppy, CD-ROM etc) are already pre-conﬁgured here for you.

• Modify…

To activate one of the pre-deﬁned devices, click here and simply set a hook in the “Enabled” checkbox.

• Add…

In case your device is not already predeﬁned in the “List of Automount Devices”, use the “Add…” button to open up this window and conﬁgure it manually:

• Name

Type in a meaningful name for your device (this will also be the name of the sub directory that will be created in /autofs/).

• Device

Select the proper device synonym from the drop down box (you may also type it in manually).

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Make sure that this ﬁts to the rules of the “List of possible Automount Devices” (see page below)!

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• Filesystem Type Set the ﬁlesystem that will be used here.

In general, you should choose “auto”, but if you use “ext2” or encounter any other trouble, set the ﬁlesystem you are using explicitely.

• Automount timeout Set the time (in seconds) the system should wait after an access to your devices, before unmounting it. The range of this timeout reaches from 0 to 600 (10 minutes).

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It is strongly recommended not to set the timeout to zero, because this can cause data loss!

• List of possible Automount Devices

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The Linux device synonyms or their sequentials have to be used as stated in this table!

Setup (Global Settings)

5.10.5 Automount Devices

• Activate PC/SC Daemon

In order to use the PC/SC interface of the Thin Client, check the “Activate PC/SC Daemon” box. By default, the internal card reader is set. Some models do already have such built-in as well as the reader is available separately. You may also use an external Cardman reader attached to the USB port.

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5.11 Printer

This tab is the central tool to conﬁgure the properties of your LPD- and/or “ThinPrint” printers.

5.11.1 LPD Printer

LPD (Line Printer Daemon) printers are used by the BSD print system which is the standard printing method in UNIX environments and is also supported by Windows NT and Windows 2000.

• List of LPD Printers There are four pre-conﬁgured LPD Printers by default, named

usb. These queues belong to the corresponding interfaces of the Thin Client and are “ready-to-use”. Usually, there is no further conﬁguration needed here, especially if your Printer is attached to the LPT1 interface (default printer).

• Add… You can add a Network Printer here. Provide the Print Server‘s name or IP and the name of the

remote printer / print queue (for details on all printer settings, see next page).

• Modify… Click here to manipulate the pre-conﬁgured printers or potential added ones (see next page).

• set default Mark the printer that‘s supposed to be your default output device within the

and click on “set default”. The selected printer will automatically be assiciated to the queue “lp” within /etc/printcab. You may use “lp” when printing to your default printer.

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In Linux you normally have to do these changes within the ﬁle /etc/printcab manually. This is not necessary with your Thin Client; all changes can be made in the setup masks here and will be transferred into the /etc/printcab almost immediatly. Do not edit the /etc/printcab manually anymore! Your changes will be overwritten by further changes made via the setup or getting lost at the latest during the next reboot of the Thin Client.

lp+lp_lp, lp_com1, lp_com2 and lp_

“List of LPD Printers”

Setup (Global Settings)

Printer Properties

• Local Printer Name

Enter the name of the printer that can be used with the lpr command.

• Aliases

If needed, enter the alias names of the printer here. Separate by | if you enter more than one.

• Use Local Device

Use this setting, if the printer uses a local device and enter the name of the “Device” which handles the printing.

• Use Network Printer

If you are using a network printer, click this button and enter the name of the

Server” and the name of the “Remote Printer” queue in the corresponding entry

ﬁelds.

• Spool Directory

Enter the path of the local spool directory.

“Print

• Max File Length

Deﬁne the maximal size allowed for a print job in blocks of 1KB (0=no size restriction).

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Files bigger than the set size will be truncated.

• Filter Application

This option allows to deﬁne the name of a ﬁlter script which is used over e.g. an NFS mount.

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There are no local ﬁlter scripts available on the Thin Client.

• Page length in lines, Page length in pixels, Page width in characters and Page width in pixels

These options allow you to adjust the page size. You can either assess it in lines by characters (like the defaults do) or in pixels by pixels.

• Form Feed

Enables / disables the print of a form feed when the device is opened.

• Suppress Form Feeds

This button switches form feed suppression on / off.

• Print Short Banner

Click this button to print a short banner, one line only.

• Suppress Header

The suppression of printing a burst page header can be toggled here.

• Windows Driver (ICA)

Enter the (very exact) windows driver name of a printer to be used for ICA connections. Alternatively, use one of the Metaframe universal printer drivers via the drop box.

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5.11.2 LPD Hosts

The permissions to print on the Thin Client can be conﬁgured in this page.

As long as you have not granted print permissions here, no LPD host will be able to print to the Thin Client but get a “permission denied” error.

• List of Hosts allowed to use LPD Printers All hosts that are allowed to print on the Thin Client will be displayed in this list.

• Add… To deﬁne print permissions, click “Add…”

and provide the host‘s IP or name in this mask:

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If you want to grant access for every LPD host, enter + (plus sign) and click “OK”. This disables the access control for LPD.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.11.3 ThinPrint Client

ThinPrint offers resourceoriented reduction of bandwidth allocated for printjob transfers. The ThinPrint Client does not use preexisting queues on the Thin Client. Instead, it sends the decompressed printjobs directly to the printer.

• Port Number

Enter the port number the ThinPrint daemon should communicate over. Ensure that the port number is the same on both, ThinPrint Client and ThinPrint Server (otherwise communication will fail).

• Bandwidth

Enter a bandwidth value (in Bits per second) which is the same or smaller than set on the ThinPrint server. A larger value, disabled Client Control or no entry here means that ThinPrint Sever values will apply.

• Packet Size

Like bandwidth, here packet size is given in Byte. (No entry means that ThinPrint Server value apply).

• Timeout

Maximum waiting period in case of blocked printer (in seconds).

• List of ThinPrint Printers

This list gives you an overview of the pre conﬁgured ThinPrint printers. Except minor differences, this menu is built and working like the LPD Printer menu (see 5.11.1):

• Class

Enter the printer class name (optional).

• Active

Enable / disable network visibility for this printer.

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For more detailed information about setting up your “ThinPrint” components, please refer to your “ThinPrint” manual.

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5.12 Security

To prevent any unauthorized “trespassing” into the Thin Client‘s setup (what could enable to intrude deeper into your network), it is highly recommended to set an administrator password after the initial conﬁguration. To allow limited conﬁgurations by the user, you can use an additional user password that offers most variable options (explained in detail in 5.11.2 on next page).

5.12.1 Password

The “Password” page allows you to set an administrator password and a user password.

• Administrator Password By clicking on “Use Password”, this dialog box will pop up promping to enter the administrator password.

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Enabling this password will restrict the “Conﬁg” tab of the “Application Launcher”, the shell access in an “Xterm” and on the console to the administrator at once!

• User Password The same procedure like for the administrator password applies here. See the dailog-box to the right; it comes up when entering the setup after both passwords were set.

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To enable the user password option, an administrator password has to be set ﬁrst.

Attention:

Make sure that the right keymapping is enabled when typing in any password! Because the typed characters in the password ﬁelds are masked by asterisks, you will not see if for instance “x” and “y” are mixed up. After changing the keymapping later on, you will wonder why your password is not accepted anymore…

Setup (Global Settings)

5.12.2 User Permissions

• Areas of Setup visible to the User

The administrator can completely deﬁne, which areas of the setup are visible and conﬁgurable by the user. The “Input Page” and the “Display Page” are enabled by default, “Advanced Display Settings” and “Advanced Network Settings” are sub-menus of these but have to be enabled separately.

Without further conﬁguration, the user‘s default setup will look like this:

Enabling all options giving the user the most possible inﬂuence will look like this:

“Security” and “Registry” will always be restricted to the administrator only!

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5.12.3 Commands

You have further conﬁguration / limitation options here concerning the menu items shown in the main window. They can be associated to any combination of the three main access areas as there are the “Start Menu”, the “Desktop” and the “Pulldown” menu.

Additionally, it is possible to assign a hotkey sequence to those commands for better and quicker access.

As soon as you activate the box will be accessable (every common modiﬁer is available):

“Use Hotkey” option, this Drop down

Setup (Global Settings)

5.12.4 RSH Remote Access

For a centralized administration, the Thin Client can be conﬁgured to be accessed through your WAN.

By default, the remote access to the local setup is allowed, as soon as you disabled (or prop erly conﬁgured) the “Access Control” (Chapter

5.4.2.1 and in detail 5.4.2.4).

But you can restrict the remote access to a spe ciﬁc user from a speciﬁc host here. Therefore enable the restriction and enter the host‘s full qualiﬁed name (e.g. xterm.maxdata.de) and the admitted user.

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5.12.5 Shadow

For helpdesk purposes, you can shadow the client via the MAXDATA Remote Manager.

• Prompt User to allow Remote Session Legal rights in some countries forbid an unannounced shadowing.

(Do not disable this if you are located in such country!)

• Allow Input from Remote As long as this feature is enabled, the remote user is allowed to input keyboard and mouse events

as if beeing the local user.

• Use Password Check this box in order to set up a password that the remote user has to enter before beeing able

to shadow.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.12.6 Smartcard

Enable/disable the Smartcard feature or rather choose between User mode and Administrator mode (only in administrator mode, you are able to create/manipulate smart card).

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For a very detailed description on setting up Smartcard functionality, please refer to the “Smartcard Quick Setup Guide.pdf”

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5.12.7 Hotkeys

There are certain hotkeys recognizable by the kernel to call the setup. In some circumstances, this might be the only way to get into setup without using emergency boot.

As you see aside, the hotkey is by default only activated for the XDMCP mode. If you want to have it always on or always off, you can set this here. <CTRL> + <ALT> is the ﬁxed modiﬁer for the setup hotkey. The default associated key is <S> what means that pressing <CTRL>+<ALT>+<S> calls the setup in XDMCP mode, if you do not manipulate the default settings.

To change the associated key, simply klick the “Learn Hotkey” button and press the wanted key when prompted.

Another Hotkey is available for free conﬁguration. You may for example assign an ICA session to it.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.12.8 Kerberos

• Default Realm

Identiﬁes the default Kerberos realm for the client. Set its value to your Kerberos realm.

• NS Lookup KDC

Indicate whether DNS SRV records should be used to locate the Key Distribution Centers (KDCs) and other servers for a realm, if they are not listed in the information for the realm.

• DNS Lookup Realm

Indicate whether DNS TXT records should be used to determine the Kerberos realm of a host.

• No Adresses

Setting this ﬂag causes the initial Kerberos ticket to be addressless. This can be necessary if the client resides behind a Network Address Translation (NAT) device.

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Realm 1 to Realm 4

• Realm The name of the realm you want to authenticate to.

• KDC List IP or FQDN list of Key Distribution Centers for this realm. An optional port number (preceded by a

colon) may be appended to the hostname.

• Domain Realm Mapping Entries in the Domain Realm Mapping List provide a translation from a hostname to the Kerberos

realm name for the services provided by that host.

• DNS Host or Domain Name The entry can be a hostname, or a domain name, where domain names are Indicated by a preﬁx of

a period (“.”) character. Host names and domain names should be in lower case.

• Realm The value is the Kerberos realm name for that particular host or domain.

Setup (Global Settings)

5.13 Registry

You can manipulate nearly every parameter of the ﬁrmware within the registry. Refer to the tool tips for details on the single items

CAUTION

Only very experienced administrators should do modiﬁcations of the Thin Client‘s conﬁguration via the registry! By setting wrong parameters, you can easily ruin the conﬁguration ending up with a stalled system. With such a misconﬁguration, the only way to recover your Thin Client is to restore the default factory settings (refer to 4.2.4 ).

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6 Application Launcher

The “Application Launcher” is the central administration tool for all kind of available session types (which depend on your Thin Client model; refer to the Feature Comparison Table on page 2).

The “Application Launcher” consists of two main pages named the information page “About”.

6.1 About

“Applications” and “Conﬁg”, and

Most of the vital system information is shown on this page.

Before you want to execute a ﬁrmware update, you should consult this page to ensure that you download the appropriate update package (updates are normally stored in http://ftp.maxdata.de/ t_index.asp?info=/info/MAXDATA_Falcon_Thin_Clients).

In case of a support issue, also the ﬁrmware version is most important. The graphics chipset may also be quite helpful.

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The value of the display “Memory Size” is the total RAM minus the amount reserved for the VGA.

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6.2 “Applications” Page (Starting Sessions)

The “Applications” page gives you an overview of the conﬁgured sessions. From here, you can launch your sessions by marking the connection to launch and either double klick it or hit the “Start” button in the low left corner. You may also use desktop icons or the start menu to launch your sessions. The “Application Launcher” has the advantage that in the “Status” tab, you also see which sessions are currently running.

6.2.1 “Reboot” or “Shutdown” the Thin Client

In the lower right corner, you ﬁnd a “Reboot” and a “Shutdown” button. (You may reconﬁgure / eleminate them; see

Chapter 5.12.2.) Use them to execute the according function. Before doing so, the system will ask for your conﬁrmation or cancellation.

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When rebooting or shutting down, your currently running sessions will be disconnected or resetted. This may cause data loss and / or truncated idle sessions on your server.

Application Launcher

6.3 “Conﬁg” Page (Creating Sessions)

The “Conﬁg” page allows you to create (and reconﬁgure) sessions and specify their start methods. It also gives you a total overview of all conﬁgured and conﬁgurable sessions and their attributes.

6.3.1 Add, edit or delete Sessions

• Add (a new session)

Pressing the Select the session type you want to add and conﬁrm with “OK”. Now the new session will be added to the “Conﬁg” page and the appropriate setup program of the selected session type is started.

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The available session types in this menu depend on the Thin Client model! (Refer the “Software Feature Comparison Table”)

• Edit (an already conﬁgured session)

Select the session you want to change and press the “Edit” button. The appropriate session setup appears on the screen and you can start modifying.

• Delete

Select the session you want to delete and hit the “Delete” button. The session entry will be removed right away and the “Application Launcher” will be refreshed.

• Conﬁgure Startup

With the additional “Conﬁgure Startup” button you have the possibility to change the startup type of any conﬁgured session without entering it‘s conﬁguration itself. Mark the session from the list, press the “Conﬁgure Startup” button and select the wanted startup type in this dialog box:

“Add” button opens up this “Session Type” dialog-box:

• The autostart function enables the session to be started automatically at boot time.

• The restart function causes a session to reconnected immediately to the server after logout.

Useful if multiple users use the same Thin Client and each logs on with its own user and password.

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6.4 Session Conﬁguration

This section describes the individual setups of the available session types. The most common place for all session conﬁguration is the “Application Launcher”. As mentioned earlier, you may also do this in the “Sessions” tab (Chapter 5.7) within the setup.

• Title Every session has a “Title” tab like this to set name, reachability and startup. Because this is quite important for the overall handling, it‘s explained ﬁrst.

• Session Name Enter the name you want the session to be called. By default, every session will be named after it‘s type. It‘s not necessary to rename it but if you have more than one session of the same kind, it will be quite helpful.

• Enable in startmenu The session will appear in the startmenu that opens up if you press the “MAXDATA” start button in the lower left corner of the desktop.

• Enable in Pulldown menu If you click anywhere on a free space of the desktop with the right mouse button, such menu will come up. By enabling this option, your session will appear here as well.

• Enable on Desktop The session will appear on the desktop as an icon.

• Enable in Application Launcher The session will be available in the “Applications” tab of the “Application Launcher”.

• Use Hotkey Here you may deﬁne a hotkey to start the session.

Application Launcher

6.4.1 Application Launcher

The “Application Launcher” session is predeﬁned by default. You may only edit it‘s settings but not delete it. In case you don‘t want it at all, simply disable all starting methods in the “title” tab (see above).

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To disable the user to change any session settings, refer chapter 5.12.2 “Hide Conﬁg Page”.

6.4.2 Setup

The “Setup” session is predeﬁned by default as well. As for the “Application Launcher”, it‘s not possible to delete this session but to manipulate.

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It may be useful to hide this session in order to prevent misconﬁguration by the user. Instead of hiding it, you may also cut down the user setup as shown in 5.12.2 “User Permissions”.

6.4.3 Lock Screen

With this session, you can set up a password protected screensaver. Activating “Autolock” that will switch from the desktop to the locked screen after the time set in “Timeout”. You may also start this session from desktop or start menu (if enabled there; see “Title”) to be launched immediately.

6.4.4 Sound Control

Here you can inﬂuence the audio volume and the left-right balance.

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6.4.5 ICA

Most of the settings were already explained in chapter 5.8 “ICA (Global ICA Settings)” across several pages, so we stay a bit more brief here. Many of the settings adjusted in the “ICA (Global ICA Settings)” are the defaults for new sessions (called “global defaults” below).

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The very ﬁrst source of further details regarding ICA and Metaframe should always be the corresponding documentation from Citrix. This manual only gives some general conﬁguration hints.

6.4.5.1 Server

• Browser Protocol Select the needed protocol for broadcast or use the global default set in

5.8.2 (“Server Location”). By activating the “Don‘t use default server location” checkbox, you can override the default server for each protocol separately.

• Server By pressing the “Browse” button, you release a broadcast signal asking for all available servers and Published Applications.

In the example above you see one server and two Published Applications:

• Selecting the server will connect the user to the full desktop as if logging in in front of the

server itself, providing all applications, rights and settings speciﬁed in his user proﬁle (local server proﬁle).

• Chosing one of the Published Applications means that the session will end up in a window

containing that one application only and the session will disconnect if you close that application.

You may also enter the IP or the hostname of the server manually into the

“Server” ﬁeld.

6.4.5.2 Application

• Application If you speciﬁed the server manually, you can enter a Published Application here. In case you selected a Published Application from the detected ones, these ﬁelds will be ﬁlled out automatically.

• Working Directory In this ﬁeld you can specify the pathname of the working directory to be used with the application.

Application Launcher

6.4.5.3 Logon

• User Name, Password and Domain

may be entered here to be used for the ICA session. They will automatically be handed over to the server so that you don‘t have to type them into the logon screen.

• Don‘t show Password Protection Window (Ctr-Alt-Delete) before Logon

Toggles the “Welcome to Windows” screen on/off.

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Please also note the local login module (chapter 5.8.8) for load balancing!

6.4.5.4 Window

(Compare chapter 5.8.1)

• Number of Colors

Use the color depth set as global default or alter it for this session.

• Use Default Setting for Colormap

Keep the global default or decide separately, if you want to “Approximate Colors” for this session.

• Window Size

By deactivating “Use Full Screen”, you may choose between global default or a session-speciﬁc one.

• No Window Manager

Press this button to use your conﬁgured session without a “Window Manager”. As long as you leave the “Window Manager” enabled, a minimal part of the local desktop will be still visible, while when disabled, the session will complete overlay the desktop

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6.4.5.5 Firewall

• Use default Alternate Address setting Choose between using the global default or set it for this session separately (Compare 5.8.7)

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The alternate adress itself has to be deﬁned in the “Address List” of the “Server Location” page of the “Global ICA Settings” (refer to 5.8.2).

• SOCKS/Proxy Server Same as above; use global defaults or alter for this session. In doubt, the tooltips are quite helpful.

6.4.5.6 Options

This is the page to tweak the performance and behaviour (see next page for descriptions).

Application Launcher

• Compress

Use data compression to reduce the amount of data transferred across the ICA session. This lowers the network trafﬁc at the expense of CPU performance. If you connect your server(s) through WAN, it‘s recommended to use the compression, if your server is a bit weak and you‘re in a LAN only, diable this option.

• Persistant Cache Enabled

You have the option to enable the cache (conﬁgured in the global ICA settings; see chapter 5.8.8) for any session. This is useful when using several ICA sessions but only one or two are critical regarding network bandwith or are heavily used during the day. In that case, you should reserve the cache for those sessions.

• Encryption Level

Encryption increases the security of your ICA connection. By default, basic encryption is enabled, so ensure that the Citrix server supports RC5 encryption before you choose any higher encryption level.

• Client Audio

If enabled, the system sounds and audio from your applications will be transmitted to the Thin Client and emitted out of attached speakers. The higher the audio quality you choose, the more bandwidth is required to transfer the audio data.

Speedscreen Latency Reduction

“Speedscreen Latency Reduction” improves performance over high latency connections by providing instant feedback to the client in response to keystrokes or mouse clicks. Both improve the user‘s feeling to sit in front of a normal PC.

• Mouse Click Feedback

This provides visual feedback of a mouse click by immediately changing the mouse pointer into an hourglass indicator.

• Local Text Echo

Accelerates display of the input text, effectively shielding you from experiencing latency on the network. Select a mode from the drop-down list:

• Set the mode to “ON” for slower connections (connection over a WAN) to decrease the

delay between user input and screen display.

• Set the mode to “OFF” for faster connections (connection over a LAN).

• Set the mode to “AUTO” if you are not certain of the connection speed.

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Speedscreen has to be enabled and conﬁgured on the Citrix server ﬁrst in order to work.

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6.4.6 ICA - Program Neighborhood

Most of the settings were already dealt with in “Global ICA Settings” (chapter 5.8) as well as the ICA Session setup (previous chapter 6.4.5).

Deﬁne the Master Browsers to be browsed for published applications.

You can set up to 5 Master Browsers per domain (see right). In case the ﬁrst one is not reachable, the second one will be consulted and so forth.

Please note that multi-Farm browsing is sup ported! So you can deﬁne Master Browsers for several server farms.

Application Launcher

6.4.7 RDP

RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) is used to connect to Microsoft servers without using Citrix Metaframe. It is already built-in in most of the Microsoft server products.

6.4.7.1 Server

Enter the IP or the hostname of the server you want to connect to. In case you want to use the name, ensure that the terminal has a nameserver reachable for the name resolution.

6.4.7.2 Application

• Application

Specify the application you want to be launched on connect. Enter the application name (e.g. iexplore.exe).

• Working Directory

In this ﬁeld you then have to specify the working directory (e.g. C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer). If the requested application is not launchable from the “Run…” dialog on the server start menu,

this is also the directory the requested ﬁle has to be located.

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6.4.7.3 Logon

In this mask, you can enter static User Name, Password and the Domain for the session. This is useful if you don‘t want to enter this over and over again. If no login information is provided here, the normal login prompt will come up.

6.4.7.4 Window

• Window Size Leave the fullscreen mode active or choose one of the available resolutions to deﬁne the window size for this RDP session manually.

• Private Color Map If the color depth of the X-Server is set to 256 Colors, possibly too few colors are left available for the RDP session causing graphics malfunction. Having the “Private Color Map” enabled eleminates this behaviour by forcing RDP to use an own separate color map.

• Enable Window Manager Key Bindings If enabled, the local X-Server hotkeys (like CTRL+ESC or CTRL+ALT+TAB) are valid. In case you want

to use the Windows server hotkeys instead, disable this option.

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6.4.7.5 Options

The options “Use Bitmap Cache”, “Use Bitmap Compression”, “Use desktop cache” and “Use Data Compression” are currently not supported by the new Rdesktop client 1.2.

• Compress

Enable compression to lower the amount of data, if you are connected to your host through a slow network connection like modem or single-line ISDN.

• Disable Mouse Motion Events and Disable Mouse Drag Events

does help improve overall performance in very rare environments. (It‘s not recommended to activate this option)

• Use default Update Interval

In case you need a screen update interval differing from the global RDP settings, you may disable using it and set an other here.

• Use default Client Name

It may be necessary to set different Client Names for different RDP sessions (e.g. connecting to different servers). You can set a Client Name other than deﬁned in global RDP settings. (By default, the global RDP Client Name equals the terminal‘s hostname.)

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6.4.8 Browser

Depending on the model of your MAXDATA Thin Client the version and or kind of the implemented browser differs. By default, Mozilla or Firefox are installed. We made both most conﬁgurable via the session setup, so that you can virtually manipulate everything you are accustomed to on a PC.

If you use the mail function of the browser, remember that locally stored data will vanish when rebooting! So you have to leave the mails stored on the mailserver or mount a directory to the cli ent‘s system, where you put the emails.

6.4.8.1 Mozilla

Mozilla is currently the ﬁrst choice in Linux browsers when it comes to performance and compatibility. It already comes along with the most needed Plug-ins pre-installed:

• Acrobat PDF-Reader

• Macromedia Shockwave Flash Player

To get further information about the installed plug-ins and their exact versions, click on the “Help” tab and then “About Plug-ins”.

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Note:

Most of the options are self-explaining, already well known or explained in the tool tips. If not, please refer to the very good online manual, reachable via “Help Contents”. (To explain every single option here would go beyond the scope of this manual.)

6.4.8.1.1 Kiosk Mode

You can strip down the browser like shown in this picture. You can also disable every conﬁgurabily (like the URL bar), so that users may only surf by clicking links on the displayed webpages. Thereby you can limit internet access to speciﬁc sites, as long as they have no links to outside pages. There is another setting, telling the system not to keep any setting changes. This means during the next reboot, your deﬁned settings will be loaded again.

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6.4.9 Powerterm (Terminal Emulation)

The PowerTerm Interconnect/32 software we use in Flash Linux is the ofﬁcial Linux version from ERICOM Software Ltd.

• PowerTerm Emulation Setup

After you have chosen the “PowerTerm” session type in the “Add a New Session” procedure described in earlier section 6.3.1 the following “PowerTerm Emulation Setup” appears on the screen: (This is also a good overview, what emulation types are supported.)

We have tried to bring the appearance of the setup pages used here as similar as possible to the appearance of the setup pages described in the original “PowerTerm Manual” of ERICOM Software Ltd.

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6.4.10 XTERM (Local Application)

With an XTERM session, you can execute local commands via shell (it is kind of DOS-prompt, if you have to compare it to Windows).

6.4.11 Application via RSH

This section describes how to conﬁgure a “RSH Session” that can be used to start a remote application via RSH (Remote Shell) on a host and displaying it on the terminal.

After you have chosen the “Application via RSH” session type in the “Add a New Session” procedure described in earlier section 6.3.1 the following “Application via RSH Setup” appears on the screen.

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Use this “Command” page to provide all necessary entries to create an executable command to start an application remote via RSH.

• Remote Username In this ﬁeld you have to enter the name of the remote user. Be sure the chosen user has an user account on your remote host.

• Remote Host In this ﬁeld you have to enter the name or the IP address of the remote host from which the remote application will be started.

• Commandline In this ﬁeld you can specify the name of the application program you want to start.

• Display This drop-down list allows you to choose between different forms of syntax for the “display” option

that depends on the application type you want to start. The display number (in this example 192.168.0.179:0.0) will be added to the command line automati cally.

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Important note:

Because of the strict access restrictions on all UNIX systems, you have to make sure that all the necessary conﬁgurations ( e.g. editing the ﬁles /etc/hosts.equiv and/or .rhosts) on the Unix host are made to allow rsh access from the terminal.

Also the terminal display has an access control that is activated by default. If you disable this “Access Control” it would be possible for everybody from any UNIX host to have access to your terminals display.

To allow a host to have access to the terminals display its name (not the IP address) must be added into a “List of Trusted X Hosts” (please refer to section 5.4.2.4 ).

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Note:

For detailed information about RSH and its authentication methods, please refer to the corresponding “man-pages” of your server operating system.

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