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Affirmative 2217 User Manual

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YEStation User's Guide for
Windows-Based Terminals
Models 2xx7 with XPe
22x7
23x7 and 27x7
Copyright 2008 Affirmative Computer Products
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www.affirmative.net
September 2008

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  • Page 1 YEStation User's Guide for Windows-Based Terminals Models 2xx7 with XPe 22x7 23x7 and 27x7 Copyright 2008 Affirmative Computer Products ® www.affirmative.net September 2008...
  • Page 3 SOFTWARE DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED. In the event that a Software Product fails to comply with the warranty set forth above, Affirmative Computer Products will replace the product. End User must, however, return all copies of the Software, along with proof of purchase, to Affirmative Computer Products within 90 days from the Software purchase date.

  • Page 4: Copyright And Trademarks

    Note: Information in this document is subject to change without notice. Trademarks Notice • ® YEStation  i s a registered trademark of Affirmative Computer Products • ® Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft ®...

  • Page 5: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Installing Your Terminal...1 Mounting... 1 22x7 ... 1 23x7 and 27x7... 3 Cabling and Indicators ... 4 22x7 ... 4 23x7 and 27x7... 5 Power On and Boot Up ... 6 Shutdown ... 6 XPe LIMITATIONS (Read this Section)...7 Adding a Printer ...
  • Page 6 Autostarting a Session... 35 Autostarting Powerterm Sessions in a Specific Order ... 35 Cloning a 2xx7 YEStation XPe Image ...41 Requirements ... 41 Limitations ... 41 eProManager ... 42 Cloning Procedure... 42 Capture... 42 Restoration... 45 FTP Update... 45 Reseal ... 47 Supporting Your YEStation ...51...

  • Page 7: Installing Your Terminal

    • DO NOT USE any AC-DC adapter other than the one provided with the terminal or acquired from Affirmative Computer Products or its distributors. Mounting 22x7 Typically, a 22x7 terminal placed horizontally on a flat surface, with the terminal resting upon four attached soft plastic feet.
  • Page 8 The four terminal mounting holes are spaced to match the mounting pins of a standard VESA mounting plate available from Affirmative Computer Products distributors. Such a plate can be attached to most of the current crop of LCD monitors, as shown in the following figure.

  • Page 9: 23X7 And 27X7

    Installing Your Terminal VESA Mounting Plate on a 17” LCD Monitor The final result is shown below. 22x7 Mounted on a 17” LCD Terminal 23x7 and 27x7 These terminals can only be mounted vertically on a flat surface, using the provided stand, as shown in the picture on the front cover of this manual.

  • Page 10: Cabling And Indicators

    Cabling and Indicators 22x7 Please make all cable connections before turning on the power. The following figures show the 2217 rear and 22x7 front connectors. Note: The 2227 has a serial connector and one USB connector instead of the parallel printer connector.

  • Page 11: 23X7 And 27X7

    Installing Your Terminal 23x7 and 27x7 Please make all cable connections before turning on the power. The following figure shows the rear and front connectors and the card slots on the rear panel of a 2317 terminal. Note: The 2327 and the 2727 have two additional USB connectors on the rear panel.

  • Page 12: Power On And Boot Up

    There are four LED indicator lights: • Power. The translucent Power button serves as the Power indicator. This indicator is faint amber when AC power is connected at the rear connector, and turns green when the terminal is powered up. •...

  • Page 13: Xpe Limitations (Read This Section)

    XPe LIMITATIONS (Read this Your terminal is pre-configured with the Windows XPe (XP Embedded) operating system and a minimal set of applications. If you are familiar with Windows XP on your desktop or laptop PC, you are familiar with Windows XPe.

  • Page 14: Adding A Printer

    MBytes available. But Microsoft provides basic driver packages for a wide range of printers in the desktop version of XP, and these files only require a few MBytes of storage. We have included these files in the Affirmative Computer Products CD that accompanied your unit. The procedure for adding a printer is: 1.

  • Page 15: Configuring Terminal Properties

    Configuring Terminal Properties Almost all of your terminal properties are configured from the Start window, but several require the use of the Affirmative Computer Products remote central manager, eProManager. Start Window Configuration changes and printer additions are initially stored in RAM. In order for these changes to be written permanently into non-volatile flash memory, thereby surviving a reboot, Write Protect must be disabled for the flash, or a Commit operation must be executed.

  • Page 16: Control Panel

    Configuring Terminal Properties Control Panel Most terminal properties are configured in Control Panel. Control Panel As you can see, the YEStation build of XPe does not include all of the configuration utilities available in XP. This is generally the case in XPe, since each build is custom built to minimize memory footprint based upon expected customer usage.

  • Page 17: General

    • Product ID. The last twelve characters are a permutation of the MAC address. • Software Version. This information is useful when seeking technical support from Affirmative Computer Products. • RAM Size. This is the remaining RAM after the Z drive has been allocated. See for more information..

  • Page 18: Auto Login

    Configuring Terminal Properties These utilities are separate from the standard Control Panel because their significance typically calls for the extra security provided by the password login and restriction to administrators. Note: If you make any changes using any of these five utilities, you will see the following information box when you OK out of Administrator Control Center.

  • Page 19: Add

    • Users must enter…. Check this box if you want user password control. But this control only exists for users that have been assigned passwords, and you can only assign passwords here in User Accounts. You can do this in one of two ways: o Add a new account here (click on Add and follow the Wizard) and define a password in the Wizard.
  • Page 20 screen. If you want to enter some information about this user for future administrative clarification, enter it in the Description field. Enter and confirm a password if desired. If you want this user to auto logon (see enter a password. Here is the interesting stuff.

  • Page 21: Properties

    Configuring Terminal Properties Properties Click on this button to change the properties of an existing account. You can access two dialog boxes. User General Properties Dialog Box You can see that this dialog is a duplicate of the first dialog box encountered when adding a user. User Group Membership Properties Dialog Box This dialog is a duplicate of the final dialog box encountered when adding a user.

  • Page 22: Reset Password

    Reset Password Click on this button to change the password for the highlighted user. This dialog is a duplicate of the second dialog box encountered when adding a user. Automatic Log On You can designate one user to be automatically logged on when you boot the terminal. To do this: 1.
  • Page 23 • You have installed new application programs or device drivers and want to save them for future use after a reboot. • You have signed on to a Terminal Server for the first time and want to save the TSCAL information. •...

  • Page 24: Outlook Express Maintenance

    • Hide. If you click this button, the dialog box will disappear, but you can still access it by clicking on the icon in the System Tray. • Close. Click here to close the EWF dialog box. If you took action to enable or disable write protect, that action will not actually take place until you reboot your terminal, as you will be reminded by the following information box.

  • Page 25: Security

    Configuring Terminal Properties Security Click on this icon for another opportunity to change the Administrator Control and EWF Manager password. You will see the following dialog box. Change Password Dialog Box The entries are self-evident, but there is one eccentricity. Even if your only desire is to disable the password, this utility still demands a new, confirmed password before disabling.

  • Page 26: Ftp Upgrade

    4. Click on Upgrade. The image will now be upgraded without any further required interaction. If you have Affirmative Computer Products’ remote management software, eProManager, installed on your network, you can execute this same procedure from that management console, than having to be on site. Using...

  • Page 27: Configuring Powerterm Sessions

    As is obvious, there are two sessions configured for use with the Affirmative Computer Products 101-key 5250/PC keyboard and two for use with the Affirmative Computer Products 122-key 5250/PC keyboard. Before configuring a new TN5250 display session from scratch, we suggest that you explore these pre-defined sessions.

  • Page 28: Display Session Configuration

    • Terminal Type. Select a terminal type from the lengthy drop-down list. When you do this, the fields in the dialog box will change to reflect the basic attributes of that terminal type. Display Session Configuration If you choose the 5250 Display type in the default Connect box, it will change to •...
  • Page 29 Script File. If you want to automatically invoke a previously-constructed script at session startup, click on • the … button to the right of this field and select a script file (.psl) from the resulting browse window. In this example, there is only one existing script, StartOrder.psl, which has been constructed to establish the starting order of a number of AutoStart PowerTerm sessions (see Specific Order).

  • Page 30: Terminal Setup

    Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Terminal Setup After entering the basic configuration parameters for a display session, you can open that session and get a sign- on screen. But you can complete these additional configuration parameters even without the sign-on screen. Open the Terminal menu and select Setup. You can also click on the Setup button in the Tool Bar. Setup Icon You will see the Terminal Setup window open with six tabbed dialog boxes.

  • Page 31: General

    General Most of the parameters in the General dialog box are self-explanatory. Here are explanations of the others. • Power GUI. Check this box to convert a standard Green Screen look to a graphical look as shown here. The menu items and the F button callouts are automatically appear as action buttons which can be activated by a cursor left-click.
  • Page 32 • Unscaled Screen. This option only applies to a framed screen. When it is checked, scaling a framed screen does not scale the Green Screen portion of the display. So you might get something that looks like this. • Code Page. If you are in the US, leave the code pages at their default settings. Framed Green Screen Unscaled Green Screen...

  • Page 33: Keyboard

    Keyboard These parameters are self-explanatory, except for: • Caplock Mode, Caps (Unix), locks alphabet keys on main keypad in uppercase. Shift, locks alphabet and numeric keys on main keypad in shift setting. Pressing the shift button on your keyboard will release shift-lock mode. Reverse (Win), Same behavior as Caps Lock, however pressing the shift button on your keyboard reverses the caps operation.
  • Page 34 Configuring PowerTerm Sessions This dialog box is identical to the dialog box used when setting up a printer session. In display session configuration, it is intended to configure a printer for local Print Screens. If the Print Screen Data Conversion is set to Graphic, this configuration function, except for printing to a file, is usurped by the Windows Add Printer Wizard.

  • Page 35: Colors

    Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Colors Colors Dialog Box This dialog box allows you to customize the visual properties of the emulation screen attributes. You can also customize the colors for several other items seen at the bottom of the Select Attribute drop-down menu, shown here.
  • Page 36 • On Terminal Setup…. Ignore this section. • History Buffer Size. This parameter is valid only for non-IBM emulations. • Window Title. Type in the “friendly” title that you wish to see in your Desktop Task Bar. • History Buffer. This buffer is used only for non-IBM emulations. •...

  • Page 37: Printer Session Configuration

    Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Printer Session Configuration If you choose the 5250 Printer type in the default Connect box, it will change to 5250 Printer Connect Dialog Box Display Session Configuration for an explanation of these parameters, except for: • Message Queue/Message Library. Ask your server administrator about any changes here. Terminal Setup After entering the basic configuration parameters for a printer session, you can open that session and get a status screen.

  • Page 38: General

    Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Emulation Dialog Box NOTE: After making any configuration changes, you must save your new Terminal Setup before you close the session – otherwise they will be lost. This can be done in several ways depending upon the parameters you have chosen (see Preferences).

  • Page 39: Printer

    Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Printer Printer Dialog Box If the Slave Printer Data Conversion is set to Graphic, this configuration function, except for printing to a file, is usurped by the Windows Add Printer Wizard. Using this wizard, accessed from the Print Setup option in the File menu or from the Printers and Faxes utility in the Windows Start menu, you can configure a parallel, serial, USB, network, or LPR printer.

  • Page 40: Preferences

    Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Advanced Printing Dialog Box Select a printer from the Printer Type/Model drop-down list, and adjust other available parameters if you wish. For the most reliable printing from the host, we recommend that you use Host Print Transform by checking the Enable AS/400 Host Print Transform box.

  • Page 41: Modifying Or Cloning An Existing 5250 Display Session

    PowerTerm scripting language and a simple Windows delay program provided by Affirmative Computer Products. In this case, only the icon for the first session is placed in the Startup folder. Then that first session invokes a PowerTerm script which opens the other sessions in the desired order.
  • Page 42 1. Open a session. 2. From the File menu, select Save As Icon. The Save As Icon dialog box will open 3. Enter the icon information as desired. The most important item here is the Setup File Name. Each icon must have a unique .pts setup file.
  • Page 43 Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Record Script Dialog Box 6. Unfortunately, Windows wants to default to the My Documents folder. In this case, it is necessary have the script in the Program Files\PowerTerm folder, so browse to that folder. 7. Enter the desired script name, StartOrder in this example, and do a Save. 8.
  • Page 44 9. If this is the only script file in this folder, the name will automatically be placed in the File Name field. Otherwise, select the desired script. Then do an Open. A blank Notepad screen will open as follows. 10. Enter script commands as shown below.. This example shows a delay of 2 seconds between the openings of each session;...
  • Page 45 Configuring PowerTerm Sessions 12. Configure the first session, and only the first session, in the opening order to execute this script file, as shown here. Connect Dialog Box 13. Move the icon for the first session into your Startup folder. 14.
  • Page 46 Configuring PowerTerm Sessions Now when you reboot, your sessions should start in order, as shown here.

  • Page 47: Cloning A 2Xx7 Yestation Xpe Image

    This software can be downloaded from the Affirmative Computer Products web site, and it also will be on the CD that contains the version 404 (or above) XPe image; contact Affirmative Computer Products Technical Support for instructions.

  • Page 48: Epromanager

    If you received a CD containing an XPe image, that same CD may have the required version of ePro, v3.4a or above. If not, you can download an installation package of the latest version of ePro from http://www.affirmative.net/EPROMANAGERV3.9.ZIP. Installation instructions are included in the zip file and in the User Guide.
  • Page 49 5. Right click on the benchmark unit, to see the context menu. 6. Left click on XPe Cloning to see the Remote Clone Image dialog box. 7. Enter the information: • IP. This is the IP address of the PC on the network that contains the shared directory that will contain the captured images.
  • Page 50 8. Click on Clone. You should see a confirmation that the remote clone command has been sent. You can now close this dialog box if you wish. ePro is now out of the capture loop, with all subsequent interaction taking place between the benchmark terminal and the computer that is storing the image files.

  • Page 51: Restoration

    Cloning a 2xx7 YEStation XPe Image Restoration Your .xpz images can be restored to any target YEStation that has an XPe image of version 301 or above. But there are two different methods for restoration, FTP Update or Reseal, depending upon the image version at the target unit.
  • Page 52 3. Right click on the target unit, to see the context menu. 4. Left click on Firmware Upgrade to see the XPe Upgrade dialog box. 5. Enter the information: • FTP Host.. This is the IP address of your FTP server. •...

  • Page 53: Reseal

    Reseal This method is used to re-image target units that are at image version 404 and above. The FTP method will not work with these image versions. The procedure is: 1. Make sure that your desired benchmark image file has a .xpz extension. If that file has a .xpe extension, rename it with a .xpz extension.
  • Page 54 4. Left click on XPe Reseal to see the Remote Restore Image dialog box. 5. Enter the information: • IP. This is the IP address of the PC on the network that contains the shared directory with the images to be restored.
  • Page 55 7. Highlight the desired file and click on Restore. You will see a “Restarting…” message. 8. If you look at the target unit display, you will see the unit shut off and then reboot with a lengthy Linux boot dialog. At the end of the dialog, you will see an “Image restore processing” message. 9.
  • Page 56 Cloning a 2xx7 YEStation XPe Image THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK...

  • Page 57: Supporting Your Yestation

    Supporting Your YEStation Affirmative Computer Products offers Technical Support services for all the Affirmative products. You can access Affirmative Technical Support in one of the following ways: • via Phone o 480-946-1444 o 888-353-5250 • via Fax o 480-946-9250 •...
  • Page 58 Supporting Your YEStation...

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