Administration

Table of Contents

12. Accessing Client Resources from the Terminal Server

12.1. Accessing the Clients Local Drives

12.1.1. Introduction

12.1.2. Requirements

12.1.3. Mounting and Unmounting Local Drives

12.1.4. Accessing local drives from Windows Terminal Servers

12.1.5. Mounting Drives at Login

12.1.6. Limitations and additional information

12.2. Using Serial Port redirection

12.2.1. Introduction

12.2.2. Requirements

12.2.3. Enabling Serial Port Redirection

12.2.4. Accessing the redirected port from applications

12.2.5. Limitations and additional information

12.3. Using Sound Device Redirection

12.3.1. Introduction

12.3.2. Requirements

12.3.3. Using sound redirection with UNIX applications

12.3.4. Using sound redirection with Windows Terminal Servers

12.3.5. Using sound redirection with Crossover

12.3.6. Limitations and additional information

12.4. Using Smart Card Redirection

12.4.1. Introduction

12.4.2. Requirements

12.4.3. Enabling Smart Card Redirection

12.4.4. Limitations and additional information

13. Commands on the ThinLinc Server

14. Server Configuration

14.1. Server Configuration Parameters

14.1.1. Parameters in /vsmagent/

14.1.2. Parameters in /vsmserver/

14.1.3. Parameters in /vsm/

14.1.4. Parameters in /appservergroups/

14.1.5. Parameters in /sessionstart/

14.1.6. Parameters in /vdi/

14.1.7. Parameters in /tlwebadm/

14.2. Configuring Logging on ThinLinc servers

14.2.1. Configuring Logging for the VSM server, the VSM server and the Browser Clients.

14.2.2. Per-Session Logging

14.3. Customizing the User's Session

14.3.1. Session startup - the big picture

14.3.2. Session startup on VSM Agent

14.3.3. Profiles and the standard xstartup.default file.

14.3.4. Session Startup with a Client Supplied Start Program

14.3.5. Configuring available profiles

14.3.6. Configuring different Linux Desktops based on the selected profile

14.3.7. Speeding up Session Startup

14.3.8. Configuring the language environment on the server based on the client language

14.3.9. Pruning data in /var/opt/thinlinc/sessions/

14.3.10. Forcing sessions for some users to certain agent hosts

14.3.11. Indicating that Shadowing is in Progress

14.4. Limiting Lifetime of ThinLinc Sessions

15. Hiveconf

15.1. Overview

15.1.1. Basic Syntax

15.1.2. Tree Structure

15.1.3. Mounting Datasources

15.1.4. Hostwide Configuration

15.1.5. Hiveconf Tools

15.2. Hiveconf and ThinLinc

15.2.1. The ThinLinc Configuration Tool - tl-config

16. Administration of ThinLinc using the Web Administration Interface

16.1. Introduction

16.2. Configuring tlwebadm

16.3. Modules

16.3.1. The Status Module

16.3.2. The Locations Module

16.3.3. The Desktop Customizer Module

16.3.4. The Novell Configurator Module

16.3.5. The VDI Module

17. Building Custom Linux Desktops with the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer

17.1. Introduction

17.2. Using the KDE Kiosk Tool in a ThinLinc environment

17.2.1. Getting the KDE Kiosk Tool

17.2.2. Working with the KDE Kiosk Tool

17.2.3. Desktop Profile Best Practices

17.3. Using the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer

17.3.1. Concepts

17.3.2. Using the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer

17.3.3. Handling Applications

17.3.4. Defining a Menu Structure

17.3.5. Defining Application Groups

17.3.6. Distribute Configuration to all agent hosts

17.4. Enabling the Custom Desktops for users

17.5. Tips & Tricks with TLDC

17.5.1. Unwanted Icons on the Desktop with KDE

17.5.2. File Associations for Applications Not In the Menu

17.5.3. Home Icon not Working in KDE?

18. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

18.1. Frequently Asked Questions for Linux

18.2. Frequently Asked Questions for Windows