This Administrator’s guide is primary intended for system administrators. It aims to describe how to set up and to use an ADDS 5600. Please note that it does not aim to describe the workings of servers systems or the meanings of network related terms.
When using a remote management server, it might be comfortable to bypass the Configuration Wizard. For this purpose, after 30 seconds of inactivity, the Terminal will reboot with the default factory settings. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal following instructions, the 5600 will be installed on your network within a few minutes.
This screen displays ADDS 5600 version number. If available, it displays the client model name and its reference number. Figure 3 - Configuration wizard: Information Keyboard Displays the keyboard layouts supported by the ADDS 5600. See page 33 for a complete list of supported keyboard. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Figure 4 - Configuration wizard: Keyboard User Interface The ADDS 5600 enables to choose from two user interfaces: Kiosk mode and Desktop mode. Kiosk is particularly useful when administrator wishes to publish a full environment, whereas Desktop is useful when administrator wish to publish standalone applications.
Figure 7 - Configuration wizard: Hostname Network The following panels enable to configure your Ethernet devices, whether they are onboard, PCI add-on card or USB Adapter. For each device detected, you will be prompted to configure the Ethernet settings. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Figure 9 - Configuration Wizard: Network - Static IP Information Domain, WINS and DNS Enter the domain name used by your local network for Domain Name Service. If needed, type the IP address of a DNS and/or a WINS server on your network. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Figure 11 - Configuration Wizard: End of Wizard User Environment Depending on choice previously made, the ADDS 5600 comes up either in Desktop Mode or in Kiosk Mode. Kiosk mode Kiosk mode is a Microsoft WBT like user Interface. It displays a single window named Connection Manager which enables: to display already configured connections (Connection tab &...
Time and Date and a mixer button which allows adjusting sound settings. At anytime, by pressing F2 key, the Connection Manager will open up the Setup Manager. Figure 13 - User Environment: Kiosk Mode - Configure Tab ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Windows tab. If needed, the Themes tab allows changing the look and feel of the window manager. Figure 16 - User Environment: Desktop Mode - Start Menu The taskbar also features some useful shortcuts. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Open the Setup Manager (also available as icon on Desktop) Figure 17 - User Environment: Desktop Mode - Taskbar Shortcuts Hotkeys The ADDS 5600 features some useful hotkeys as details below. Note that the hotkeys behavior may differ depending on the User Interface Mode used. Ctrl + Alt +...
Administering the client Overview Administration on the ADDS 5600 is built around an internal web server. This offers a unique setup tool for both local and remote administration. For further information regarding remote administration, please see page 70. By opening up the Setup Manager, the ADDS 5600 invokes this internal web server.
ADDS 5600 using only the IP Address or the Hostname of the 5600. If an administrator password has been previously set, then this password will be required for remote administration. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
SSH client available on the network to connect to the 5600. Of course, if an administrator has been previously set, then this password will be required for Remote Access. For more details regarding this feature, please refer to page 67. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Disabled: If set, then the option will not be displayed in the Navigation frame. The next view is the one you get when you connect to the Setup Manager while all User Permissions are set to disabled and the administrator password is set. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
The Connection Manager displays the Configure Tab accordingly to User Permissions set. By default the Connections -> Configuration is disabled, therefore the configure Tab is not available to the ADDS 5600 user after the Setup is secured by a password.
Once done, the ADDS 5600 will prompt to reload the navigation frame in order to display all the tabs. Figure 25 - Setup Manager: Administration - User Permissions - Login as Administrator Configuration File The ADDS 5600 allows exporting or importing a particular configuration. A configuration can be: Hardware, i.e.-e it contains terminal settings only...
192.168.2.0/24 : 192.168.2 192.168.2.0/16 : 192.168.2.0/8 : ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies Proxy will be bypassed for this particular domain name Proxy will be bypassed for IP Addresses starting with Proxy will be bypassed for IP Addresses starting with 192.168...
Figure 28 - Setup Manager: Connections – Configuration User Interface As described earlier, the ADDS 5600 features two different user environments: Kiosk Mode and Desktop Mode. Moving from one environment to the other requires a reboot. The Kiosk Mode does not require any settings. The Desktop Mode allows selecting the taskbar location and visibility (Auto Hide/Always Visible).
Figure 29 - Setup Manager: Connections - user Interface Configuration Data Storage This section displays all Storage drives detected by the ADDS 5600. These drives can be: Internal Drives : o Floppy Disk Drives o Hard Disk Drives o Cd-Rom Drives...
In the screenshot below, we use the Mozilla browser to store a file into the storage devices. The Drives are located within the /tmp/browse directory. Figure 31 - Setup Manager: Configuration - Data Storage - Using local connections ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Figure 32 - Setup Manager: Configuration - Data Storage - Using connections to servers Fonts Servers If you require fonts in addition to those provided by the ADDS 5600, you have to set up this section. Please note that the Font Servers have to be installed and properly configured on the server.
Figure 33 - Setup Manager: Configuration – Fonts Servers The ADDS 5600 allows the use of external fonts either through XFS or NFS services. Do keep in mind that XFS is known to offer better performance than NFS. The Test button allows checking settings of the Font Server. However, you can ensure that the Font Server is properly working by checking the fonts used within applications (Emulator, Browser, X11, Telnet…).
(Emulator, Browser, Xpdf…). LPR: the Printing Engine The ADDS 5600 uses a LPR server to handle Print Jobs. LPR server receives Print Jobs from local applications (Emulator, Browser...) and from network (LPD protocol, SMB protocol, ThinPrint protocol).
Client settings at this stage. The ThinPrint Client does not use preexisting queues on the ADDS 5600. Instead, it sends the decompressed print jobs directly to the printer. For more detailed information about setting up a Thin Print Client, please refer to your “ThinPrint”...
Windows Server. This option will only be used in following cases: Printing trough SMB Protocol If you have already found a Printer Model in the list of printers, that matches your requirement, there is no need to use this field. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
The client is set with the following default display settings: Display resolution - 800x600 Color depth – 16 In the dropdown list, the ADDS 5600 displays a selection of resolutions and frequencies supported by the 5600. It is highly recommended to use the Test button before saving new screen resolution settings.
Character repeat rate set the speedness of repeated characters per second. By default, the support for Dead keys is enabled. Dead keys are special keys that enable to create specific characters when combined with other keys (â, ü; ñ…). ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Boundless Technologies Figure 42 - Setup Manager: Configuration - Keyboard Settings The 5600 supports a large number of keyboard localization. Choose the one that meet your requirements. Figure 43 - Setup Manager: Configuration - Supported Keyboard ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
Mouse The ADDS 5600 supports both standard 3 buttons mice on PS/2 or USB. Additionally, the ADDS 5600 can be tuned to hide the mouse cursor. This is particularly useful in case no mouse is attached to the terminal. Touch screen The ADDS 5600 supports Touch screens from Elotouch (Accutouch and Intellitouch on serial port).
After a certain period of inactivity defined in minutes, you can set the ADDS 5600 to turn in Screen Saver mode. The exit of screen saver can be protected by password. Figure 46 - Setup Manager: Configuration - Screen Saver ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Boundless Technologies The screen saver can be used to display digital media. The digital media shall be stored on a drive detected by the ADDS 5600 (See page 23). Network Hosts File If no DNS (Domain Name Service) is used on your corporate network, you can provide a list of hosts to translate between IP address and Hostname.
The ADDS 5600 supports Rdate and NTP Time Servers. Once configured, the ADDS 5600 will fetch the date and time from the server using TIME or SNTP protocol for automatic synchronization of computers. If the DHCP is set to do so, Time server will be set automatically.
By enabling SMB Server, the ADDS 5600 will be able to share its local resources with other computers on the network, may these local resources be Printer(s) or Storage device(s). Local Master Browser is a feature that shall be used when no WINS server is available on your network.
The timeout value specifies in seconds for how long the ADDS 5600 will try to get an IP address. The default value is 60 seconds. You can increase this value in case your DHCP server waits a long time before assigning the IP address.
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Figure 54 - Setup Manager: Network - Configuration - Wlan settings By pressing Scan button, the ADDS 5600 will scan for available Access Points on the network. Figure 55 - Setup Manager: Network - Configuration - Wlan settings - Scan from Setup Manager The Scan button is also available from the taskbar.
Once you have configured a Disk Mounting, the mounted disk will be displayed within Data Storage section (see page 27) as a Network Drive. Figure 57 - Setup Manager: Network - Disk Mounting ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
The ADDS 5600 allows creating either SMB Disk Mounting or NFS Disk Mounting. Figure 58 - Setup Manager: Network - New Disk Mounting SMB Disk Mounting The SMB stands for Server Message Block. This protocol is very useful because it is the default protocol used by Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Windows 2000 and Window XP to share disks and printers.
Internet network and for getting a detailed sense of the Internet itself. Figure 63 - Setup Manager: Network - Tools- Traceroute Ifconfig Ifconfig is a utility that displays the settings of the Ethernet devices detected by the ADDS 5600. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Power Management This panel enables to set the Power Management options. Options available might depend on the hardware platform on which the ADDS 5600 is installed (Processor type, battery…). The most commonly used option is the shutdown procedure. This enables to specify what behavior is expected when the user shutdown the unit.
Factory Default Settings This option will reset all the settings of the ADDS 5600 to its factory default. Note that all your settings will be lost. You will see the Configuration Wizard after reboot. Figure 67 - Setup Manager: System - Reset to factory default settings...
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By pressing the Read button, the ADDS 5600 displays the list of the main components used by the linux system. Figure 69 - Setup Manager: System - Information Panel - Software version In case of troubleshooting, this feature can be used to generate a Hardware Diagnostic Report that can be exploited by your ADDS 5600 supplier.
Figure 72- Setup Manager: System - Reboot Upgrade Firmware The ADDS 5600 can perform a firmware upgrade using FTP or HTTP. The upgrade can be a partial (only one part of the firmware is upgraded) or a total upgrade (the firmware is fully upgraded).
Figure 74 - Setup Manager: System - HTTP upgrade Upgrade options On the left side of the Upgrade menu, the ADDS 5600 displays the upgrade parameters. The dropdown list can contain several entries such as: o All (i.e. entire upgrade) o …...
If your system has been configured to use a Time Server, the time will be reset according to the Timeserver whenever you connect to the network. Time Zone Figure 77 - Setup Manager: Time and date - Time zone ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
The Connection Manager is the central administration tool for all kind of available connection types. Note that the same can also be configured locally or remotely through the Setup Manager. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal This section describes available on the ADDS 5600 and how to configure them. Boundless Technologies connections...
Figure 80 - Connections: Type of Connections Select the session type you want to add. The available connection types in this menu depend on your particular ADDS 5600 model. Server IP address or name For each connection, the Administrator will be prompted to specify on which server the 5600 has to connect to.
This allows choosing how the connection screen will be displayed. The ADDS 5600 allows choosing from the following: o Specific window sizes lower than the one currently set will be displayed, o Fit to Screen o Full Screen ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
This allows displaying a shortcut for the connection on the Desktop (only available in Desktop Mode). By default, this option is set to off. Figure 86 - Connections: Commonly used settings - Add Shortcut to Desktop ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
PN Agent stands for Program Neighborhood Agent. This application created by Citrix Systems, Inc enables to connect to servers running NFUSE and then display on your desktop all published applications which are available for use. Figure 89 - Connections: PN Agent ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
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Otherwise, a Logon window will pop up asking for the user connection details. Figure 90 - Connections: PN Agent - Published applications on Desktop Figure 91 - Connections: PN Agent - Published applications on Kiosk ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
Windows Terminal Server, UNIX or Linux Server and Mainframes. Figure 92 - Connections: Tarantella By pressing Browse button, the ADDS 5600 will browse the content of Data Storage drives. This will enable to select and load a certificate located on a USB key for instance...
Please note that the 5600 feature an access control that is activated by default. Therefore, when you create a Rexec connection, please ensure you have added the host into the Xhosts list. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Figure 95 - Connections: Rexec Boundless Technologies...
(Keyboard and Mouse). Web-Browser A Web-Browser allows you to establish a connection to the Internet or a local intranet site. The ADDS 5600 uses either Netscape Navigator or Mozilla Firefox. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Figure 97 - Connections: VNC...
Mozilla Firefox browser Figure 98 – Connections: Web-Browser - Mozilla Firefox The ADDS 5600 allows starting Mozilla Firefox based on the following GUI settings available: Standard: Mozilla comes up with the standard menu bar. For instance, user will be able to access or store data on Storage Drives.
Figure 100 - Connections: Web-Browser - Mozilla Firefox - Super Kiosk GUI By default, the ADDS 5600 will store only a part of Mozilla preferences within the file system according to the following rules: o Bookmarks up to 10 kb...
Figure 101 - Connections: Web-Browser - Mozilla Firefox - Plugins DIALUP To set up a WAN connection with the ADDS 5600, you can use either: o PSTN modems o ISDN modems o ADSL modems (PPoE) General PPP settings These are general PPP settings that apply to all kind or modems.
WIN modems. All external modems that are connected on the COM ports or internal PCI modems that can be configured to behave like an external modem will work. (If possible, choose modems with a “Venus Lucent” chipset) ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Figure 102 - Connections: PPP Boundless Technologies...
IP address and the IP address of the server. ISDN specific parameters The second way to set up a WAN connection with the 5600 is using an ISDN card PCI or PCMCIA. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
ADSL (PPoE) specific parameters Figure 105 - Connections: PPP - ADSL (PPoE) The only setting required for ADSL connections, is to specify the Ethernet device to use. All Ethernet devices detected are shown within the dropdown list. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
PPTP stands fro Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. PPTP is a protocol that allows expanding corporate networks through private "tunnels" over the public Internet. This kind of protocol is known as a virtual private network (VPN). ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Figure 106 - Connections: SSH Boundless Technologies...
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Boundless Technologies Figure 107 - Connections: PPTP Please note that for connections to windows Remote Access Server that uses encryption, MS-CHAP V2 authentication is required. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
This allows to remote configuration of the ADDS 5600. Figure 108 - Advanced: Remote HTTP Administration – Overview ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Advanced This section contains information intended for the ADDS 5600 administrator use. Boundless Technologies advanced...
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Send a Message This allows sending a message to the 5600 user. Figure 109 - Advanced: Remote HTTP Administration: Send Message Figure 110 - Advanced: Remote HTTP Administration: Message Sent ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
Stop or Start a new upgrade Remote Access through SSH The ADDS 5600 features a SSH server which allows any SSH device to connect to it. In case an administrator password is set, then this administrator password will be required to establish the SSH connection.
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The 5600 uses a read-only file system with a single writeable user partition (/tmp/config). Modifications made within the file system may alter the functioning of the 5600. Therefore SSH connections should be used only by linux experts. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
Tuning ShellScript The ADDS 5600 gives a direct access to its file system thanks to the ShellScript connection. ShellScript gives the ability to configure a custom script written in Shell that will be executed manually or automatically. Figure 114 - Connections: ShellScript Warning: ShellScript connection can give access to the linux file system.
Note°: in this example, the web server is set to listen on port 80 and 90 Autorun a script from a USB Key The ADDS 5600 can automatically execute a script whenever a USB key is detected. If the USB key features a lbt_autorun.sh file, then this file is executed once the USB key is plugged.
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# 3 : everythings GUI="" MGS_ASK() GUI_TYPE=$1 RESULT="" case "$GUI_TYPE" in "0") "1") ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies RES=`getinfos "Get the configuration ?"` if [ "$RES" != "EXIT_getinfos" ] ; then RESULT="GET" RESULT=`gettext "Your choice :" "GET or PUT a configuration ?"`...
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Note°: Once the USB Key is Detected, LBT will prompt user to select between GET, PUT and UPGRADE... The GET command will upload the configuration of the thin client and will store it into the USB ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies RESULT=`gettext "Your choice :"...
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UPDATED="true" if [ -f "$NEW_SSAVER" ] ; then cp $NEW_SSAVER $SCREENSAVER UPDATED="true" if [ -f "$NEW_TCMS" ] ; then cp $NEW_TCMS $TCMSLOGO UPDATED="true" if [ -f "$NEW_SETUP" ] ; then cp $NEW_SETUP $SETUP UPDATED="true" ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
The 5500 comes along with a set of standard binaries tools that can be found in a stripped down version of linux. The ADDS 5600 also features some tools that ease the development of scripts. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal...
Where ID is: start stop o Freeze The ADDS 5600 uses a RAM-based file system. However, modifications made in /tmp/config/ directory can be written into the flash drive. This can be done using freeze command. ADDS 5600 Linux-Based Terminal Boundless Technologies...
Smart Card scripts When using smart card on the ADDS 5600, administrator can create a script that is executed when the card gets inserted or gets removed. Scripts shall be located in /tmp/config/smartcard/insert and in /tmp/config/smartcard/remove. These scripts can be used for starting or ending a particular connection.
Disclaimer: The information provided in this manual is intended for instructional purposes only and is subject to change without notice. Mangrove Systems SAS and or Boundless Technologies accept no responsibility or liability for errors, omissions, or misleading information that may be contained in this manual.
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