Administration

Table of Contents

12. Accessing Client Resources from the ThinLinc session

12.1. Accessing the Clients Local Drives

12.1.1. Introduction

12.1.2. Mounting and Unmounting Local Drives

12.1.3. Accessing local drives from Windows Remote Desktop Servers

12.1.4. Mounting Drives at Login

12.1.5. 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 Remote Desktop Servers

12.3.5. 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. Configuring ThinLinc Servers in a Cluster

14.1.1. Configuration Options

14.1.2. Cluster Management

14.2. Server Configuration Parameters

14.2.1. Parameters in /vsmagent/

14.2.2. Parameters in /vsmserver/

14.2.3. Parameters in /vsm/

14.2.4. Parameters in /appservergroups/

14.2.5. Parameters in /sessionstart/

14.2.6. Parameters in /tlwebadm/

14.2.7. Parameters in /webaccess/

14.3. Configuring Logging on ThinLinc servers

14.3.1. ThinLinc server components

14.3.2. Per-Session Logging

14.4. Customizing the User's Session

14.4.1. Session startup - the big picture

14.4.2. Session startup on VSM Agent

14.4.3. Profiles and the standard xstartup.default file.

14.4.4. Session Startup with a Client Supplied Start Program

14.4.5. Configuring available profiles

14.4.6. Configuring different Linux Desktops based on the selected profile

14.4.7. Speeding up Session Startup

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

14.4.9. Forcing sessions for some users to certain agent hosts

14.5. Limiting Lifetime of ThinLinc Sessions

15. Shadowing

15.1. Introduction

15.2. Granting shadowing access to users

15.3. Shadowing a user session

15.4. Indicating that Shadowing is in Progress

16. Hiveconf

16.1. Overview

16.1.1. Basic Syntax

16.1.2. Tree Structure

16.1.3. Mounting Datasources

16.1.4. Hostwide Configuration

16.1.5. Hiveconf Tools

16.2. Hiveconf and ThinLinc

16.2.1. The ThinLinc Configuration Tool - tl-config

17. Administration of ThinLinc using the Web Administration Interface

17.1. Introduction

17.2. Configuring tlwebadm

17.3. Modules

17.3.1. The System Health Module

17.3.2. The Status Module

17.3.3. The VSM Module

17.3.4. The Profiles Module

17.3.5. The Locations Module

17.3.6. The Desktop Customizer Module

17.3.7. The Application Servers Module

18. Building Custom Linux Desktops with the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer

18.1. Introduction

18.2. Using the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer

18.2.1. Concepts

18.2.2. Using the ThinLinc Desktop Customizer

18.2.3. Handling Applications

18.2.4. Defining a Menu Structure

18.2.5. Defining Application Groups

18.2.6. Distribute Configuration to all agent hosts

18.3. Enabling the Custom Desktops for users

18.4. Tips & Tricks with TLDC

18.4.1. Unwanted Icons on the Desktop with KDE

18.4.2. File Associations for Applications Not In the Menu

18.4.3. Home Icon not Working in KDE?