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Summary of Contents for Sun Microsystems Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5
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Page 1: User Guide
Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com Part No. 820-6690-10 April 2009, Revision 01 Submit comments about this document at: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/form/comments... - Page 2 Copyright 2007-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, Californie 95054, États-Unis. Tous droits réservés. Sun Microsystems, Inc. détient les droits de propriété intellectuels relatifs à la technologie incorporée dans le produit qui est décrit dans ce document. En particulier, et ce sans limitation, ces droits de propriété intellectuelle peuvent inclure un ou plus des brevets américains listés à...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Preface vii Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 1 Logging In 1 User Names and Passwords 1 ▼ How to Log In to SGD 2 Potentially Unsafe Connection Message 5 ▼ How To Deal With a Potentially Unsafe Connection Message 6 The SGD Webtop 6 Menu Bar 7 Applications Area 8... - Page 4 Using SGD From Your Desktop Start or Launch Menu 23 ▼ How to Add SGD to Your Desktop Start or Launch Menu 24 Working With the Start or Launch Menu 24 Logging In 25 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
- Page 5 Displaying a Webtop 25 Running Applications 26 Printing 26 Using Application Groups 26 Using My Desktop 26 Logging Out 27 Logging Out of the SGD Webtop 27 Logging Out Using the Start or Launch Menu 27 Installing the SGD Client Manually 29 Installing the SGD Client 29 ▼...
- Page 6 Glossary 43 Index 47 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 7: Preface
Preface The Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide provides an introduction to using Sun Secure Global Desktop software (SGD). The manual provides information on how you can use SGD to run applications. This document is intended for both new and existing users of SGD. - Page 8 You can email your comments to Sun at: docfeedback@sun.com Please include the following document title and part number in the subject line of your email: Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide, part number 820-6690-10. viii Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 9: Using Sun Secure Global Desktop
C H A P T E R Using Sun Secure Global Desktop Sun Secure Global Desktop software (SGD) provides you with secure, remote access to desktop applications running on application servers. ® You can be writing a report on a computer in the office, administering UNIX platform servers on your PC at home, or checking stock databases with a laptop on the train, SGD enables you do all this. -
Page 10: How To Log In To Sgd
Note – If Java technology is not enabled in your browser, a warning message is shown. You must enable Java technology in your browser before proceeding. The SGD Login dialog box is shown. See FIGURE 1-1 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... - Page 11 SGD Login Dialog Box FIGURE 1-1 Note – If JavaScript is not enabled in your browser, a warning message is displayed beneath the login dialog box. 2. Type in your SGD user name and password. 3. Click the Login button. While SGD is starting up, the splash screen is shown.
- Page 12 The Certificate Details dialog box is shown. This screen enables you to view security certificate details, to ensure that the server you are connecting to can be trusted. See FIGURE 1-4 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 13: Potentially Unsafe Connection Message
Certificate Details Dialog Box FIGURE 1-4 a. Check that the Validity and Subject fields are correct. b. Click Close. The Initial Connection dialog box is redisplayed. 5. If the certificate details are correct, click Yes to agree to the connection. Once you have clicked Yes, you do not see the security message again unless there is a problem with the connection. -
Page 14: How To Deal With A Potentially Unsafe Connection Message
Your webtop is a special web page that lists the applications you can run through SGD and enables you to run them. shows the different areas of the webtop. FIGURE 1-7 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 15: Menu Bar
SGD Webtop FIGURE 1-7 Name Description Menu bar Includes Logout, Help, and Info buttons Applications area Lists the applications that you can run Printing area Enables you to manage your print jobs Information area Displays error messages and system information The different areas of the webtop are described in the following sections. -
Page 16: Applications Area
User name ■ Secure connection status ■ User Name Your SGD user name is displayed on the webtop toolbar, next to the padlock symbol, as shown in FIGURE 1-8 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 17: Secure Connection Status
User Name Displayed on the Webtop Toolbar FIGURE 1-8 If the toolbar says you are logged in as “Guest user” then you either logged in without typing a user name and password, known as an anonymous login, or you are using a webtop that is shared with other users. These details also display on the webtop when you first log in. -
Page 18: Number Of Instances Of An Application
What If I Get an Error Message When Starting an Application? If an error message is shown when you click a link to start an application, try one of the following: Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 19: Suspending And Resuming Applications
Make sure you supplied the correct user name and password for the application ■ server. If SGD does not prompt you for this information, hold down the Shift key and click the link to force the prompt to appear. Log out of SGD and exit your browser, then restart it and log in to SGD again. ■... -
Page 20: Resumability Settings For Applications
No, you do not lose any work if you accidentally close your browser without logging out, or if your browser crashes. You can restart your browser and log in to SGD to display your webtop. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 21: Changing The Way An Application Is Displayed
However, if the SGD Client exits unexpectedly, or if you close down the SGD Client, your ability to resume an application depends upon how your SGD Administrator configured the application and how you logged in to SGD. If an application is configured to be “Not Resumable”, then it exits when the SGD ■... -
Page 22: Copying Information Between Applications
Macintosh mouse with one button, click the button while holding down one of the following keys on the keyboard: To simulate a middle mouse button click, press Alt while clicking the mouse ■ button Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 23: Printing
To simulate a right mouse button click, press Command while clicking the mouse ■ button Printing SGD enables you to print from your applications to a printer attached to your computer. Usually, you can choose the printer you want to print to. However, for some applications you might only be able to print to your default printer. -
Page 24: Printing From Unix Platform Applications
The following command prints file to your default printer on the Windows computer: $ lp file You can also print to a port on the computer. For example: $ lp -d LPT1: file Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 25: Printing From Unix Platform Applications To A Windows Computer
You can also print by specifying the universal naming convention (UNC) name of a network printer that is accessible from the computer. To use a UNC name, you must enclose the printer name in quotes and escape backslashes as appropriate for the shell. -
Page 26: Printing From Windows Applications To A Windows Computer
With SGD you can also use Portable Document Format (PDF) printing. This avoids many problems with print drivers by using the Adobe PDF format. SGD has two PDF printers: Universal PDF Printer and Universal PDF Viewer. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 27: Using Pdf Printing
On Microsoft Windows computers, the Universal PDF Printer printer displays the print job as a PDF file in Adobe Reader, which then prints the PDF file to your default printer. The Universal PDF Viewer printer displays the print job as a PDF file in Adobe Reader. -
Page 28: Printing Troubleshooting
If none of the above solves your printing problem, contact your SGD Administrator. Changing Your Settings You can configure the following settings by clicking on the Edit button in the Applications area: Client settings ■ Application Groups ■ Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 29: Client Settings
Client Settings Each time the SGD Client starts it uses a profile. A profile is a group of configuration settings that control the SGD Client. The settings in a profile define the following: How the SGD Client connects to an SGD server. For example, the URL to connect ■... -
Page 30: How To Create A Group
Creating a New Group Using the Edit Groups tab FIGURE 1-16 5. Click the Save Group button. 6. Click the Update button. The names of the webtop groups you create are displayed on the webtop. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 31: Using Sgd From Your Desktop Start Or Launch Menu
Group Displayed on a Webtop, Showing Group Contents FIGURE 1-17 A separator line to show you which applications are in the group is also displayed. 7. Click the triangle to hide and show the applications in the group. Group Displayed on a Webtop, Hiding Group Contents FIGURE 1-18 You can add as many groups as you like. -
Page 32: How To Add Sgd To Your Desktop Start Or Launch Menu
■ Displaying a webtop ■ Using application groups ■ Logging In You log in to SGD by clicking the Login link on your desktop Start or Launch Menu. FIGURE 1-19 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 33: Logging In
Logging In Using the Desktop Start or Launch Menu FIGURE 1-19 Note – If you log in to more than one SGD server, there is a Login link for each server in the Start or Launch Menu. Once you have logged in to SGD, the Start or Launch Menu is updated with the links for the applications you can run through SGD, as shown in FIGURE 1-20 To use SGD in Integrated mode, you always log in using the Start or Launch Menu. -
Page 34: Printing
Once you have logged in, the My Desktop full-screen desktop application is displayed. An alternative way to start My Desktop is by going to http://server.example.com/sgd/mydesktop. After starting My Desktop, you can close the browser window. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 35: Logging Out
Note – You cannot suspend or resume your My Desktop application. You must log out of the desktop application as normal. Logging Out The log out procedure varies, depending on whether you are using the SGD webtop or you are using SGD from the desktop Start or Launch Menu. Logging Out of the SGD Webtop Always log out of SGD before closing your browser. - Page 36 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 37: Installing The Sgd Client Manually
A P P E N D I X Installing the SGD Client Manually To use Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD) with a browser that does not have Java technology enabled, you must download the SGD Client manually and install it on your computer. -
Page 38: How To Install The Sgd Client Manually On Microsoft Windows Platforms
Click one of the flags at the top of the Welcome page. The Welcome page is displayed in the selected language. 3. Click Install the Sun Secure Global Desktop Client. The Sun Secure Global Desktop Client page is displayed. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 39: How To Install The Sgd Client Manually On Solaris Os And Linux Platforms
4. Download the SGD Client installation program. Click Download the Secure Global Desktop Client for Microsoft Windows. Save the installation program to a temporary directory on the PC. The SGD Client installation program is sgdcwin-lang.exe, where lang is the selected language. 5. - Page 40 Tar file names indicate a platform, as follows: sgdci3so.tar for Solaris™ Operating System (Solaris OS) on x86 platforms ■ ® sgdcspso.tar for Solaris OS on SPARC technology platforms ■ sgdci3li.tar for Linux platforms ■ Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 41: Logging In Using The Sgd Client
5. Change to the temporary directory and extract the tar file. $ cd /tempdir $ tar xvf tarfile 6. Install the SGD Client. $ sh sgdc/install Follow the instructions on the screen. Logging In Using the SGD Client On UNIX and Linux platforms, you start the SGD Client with the ttatcc command. On Microsoft Windows platforms, you can either start the SGD Client as part of the installation or click Start →... - Page 42 Click the Logout button on the SGD webtop menu bar. The Client Connection settings you have entered are used by the SGD Client for any subsequent connections to this SGD server. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 43: Advanced Configuration
A P P E N D I X Advanced Configuration This appendix includes configuration information for advanced users of Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD). The following advanced configuration topics are described: “Client Settings” on page 35 ■ “Printing” on page 37 ■... -
Page 44: Changing The Login Page Url
You can override this by specifying another PDF viewer for the Alternative PDF Viewer setting. Type in the application command for the alternative PDF viewer. If the application is not on your PATH, type the full path name for the application. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 45: Printing
Printing If you are using a UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X computer, you can override the settings made by the SGD Administrator and configure printers on the computer. Configuring Your Client Printers Typically, your SGD Administrator configures the available client printers for you to use. -
Page 46: Accessing The Drives On Your Computer
Note – Changes to the configuration file only take effect when you log out and then log in to SGD. The access rights for a mapped client drive are shown in brackets after the drive name: (rw)means read-write access, (ro) means read only access. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009... -
Page 47: Profile Settings
A P P E N D I X Profile Settings This appendix describes the settings you can configure in a profile. Description of Profile Settings Each time the SGD Client starts it uses a profile. A profile is a group of configuration settings that control the SGD Client. - Page 48 For example, when the SGD Client is in Integrated mode. The language selected is used for messages displayed by the SGD Client, the login dialog, and the webtop. The default is English. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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Page 49: Configuring Integrated Mode Operation
Setting Description Check for Local X Server If enabled, the SGD Client checks whether there is an X server running on the computer. Enabling this option can improve performance when launching X applications that are configured to display using an X server on the computer. This setting only applies to Windows computers. - Page 50 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
- Page 51 Glossary This chapter defines terms used with the Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD) software. application A program running on a server. SGD lets you access your applications using a browser on any computer. browser Software you run on your computer to access SGD. For example, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
- Page 52 The SGD software you log in to using your browser to see your webtop. The unique name by which servers identify you. You can have different user user name names on different servers. Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
- Page 53 webtop The special web page you see when you log in to SGD. The webtop provides access to your applications. Glossary...
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- Page 55 Index Alternative PDF Viewer, specifying, 36 cancelling applications, 10 anonymous users client drives, accessing, 38 closing the browser, 13 client install, 29 webtop username, 9 client printers, configuration, 37 Apple Macintosh mouse, single-button, 15 clipboard, 14 applications copying, 14 adding to the webtop, 8 authentication, 14 cancelling, 11 desktop Start Menu...
- Page 56 Start Menu, 23 glossary of terms, 43 introduction, 1 logging out, 27 splash screen, 3 SGD Client manual install, 29 shared accounts closing the browser, 13 webtop username, 9 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009...
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