10ZiG V16.5.37 Peak OS Repurp OS User Guide
- September 21, 2024
- 10ZiG
Table of Contents
- V16.5.37 Peak OS Repurp OS
- Product Specifications
- Product Usage Instructions
- About This Guide
- Getting Started
- Support
- Initial Setup
- Desktop Modes
- Connection Settings
- Control Panel Settings
- What is the purpose of PeakOS/RepurpOS V16.5.37?
- How do I customize my desktop using PeakOS/RepurpOS
- Can I manage multiple connections with this operating
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Product Specifications
- Product Name: PeakOS/RepurpOS V16.5.37
- Version: 1.0
- Created by: Jason Hudson
- Date: 24/07/2023
Product Usage Instructions
About This Guide
The user manual provides information on the device’s conformity,
warnings, and environmental impact.
Getting Started
Follow the initial hardware setup instructions provided in the
manual.
Support
For any assistance or queries, refer to the support section of
the manual.
Initial Setup
Set up the device following the instructions in the manual,
including EULA acceptance and access to the control panel.
Desktop Modes
Customize your desktop appearance, wallpaper, screensaver, and
choose from different modality modes such as Full Desktop, WBT
Mode, Kiosk Mode, and others.
Connection Settings
Edit your connection settings, save configurations, and manage
connections for VMware Horizon, Citrix, Microsoft, and other
platforms.
Control Panel Settings
Adjust application settings, manage connections using the
Connection Manager, edit connection settings, and set startup
options for Kiosk Mode.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
What is the purpose of PeakOS/RepurpOS V16.5.37?
PeakOS/RepurpOS V16.5.37 is an operating system designed for
specific hardware to provide virtual desktop solutions for various
platforms like VMware Horizon, Citrix, and Microsoft.
How do I customize my desktop using PeakOS/RepurpOS
V16.5.37?
To customize your desktop, access the control panel, navigate to
appearance settings, choose wallpapers, screensavers, and select
different modality modes based on your preferences.
Can I manage multiple connections with this operating
system?
Yes, you can manage multiple connections by using the Connection
Manager to create new connections, edit settings, and set startup
options for connections in Kiosk Mode.
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PeakOS/RepurpOS V16.5.37 User Guide
Version 1.0
Document and Version Control
Created by
Date
Jason Hudson
24/07/2023
Authorized & checked K. Greenway
About This Guide
Thank you for choosing from the 10ZiG Technology series of Thin Clients which
are designed for an array of different users in many different office
environments. They feature a powerful, yet simple and affordable solution to
virtual desktop computing in a fashionable and sleek design. In this User
Guide, you will find everything you need to quickly begin using your new
device. Please be sure to verify with your network administrator that your
network is prepared for the configuration of your new device.
Declaration of Conformity It is hereby declared that this device is in
conformity with the essential requirements, and other relevant provisions of
the CE and the FCC.
CE Mark Warning This is a class B device, in a domestic or office environment.
This product may cause radio interference, in which case the user may be
required to take adequate measures.
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Warning To potentially avoid
adverse effects on the environment, and human health, as a result of the
presence of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment, end
users of electrical and electronic equipment should understand the meaning of
the crossed-out wheeled bin symbol. Do NOT dispose of WEEE as unsorted
municipal waste as municipalities must collect WEEE separately.
ABOUT THIS GUIDE
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GETTING STARTED
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Packing List
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Initial Hardware Setup
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SUPPORT
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ID CODE
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INTRODUCTION
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10ZIG’S PEAKOS AND REPURPOS
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PEAKOS
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REPURPOS
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INITIAL SETUP
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EULA
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ACCESS TO THE CONTROL PANEL
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THE FLEXIBLE PEAKOS DESKTOP
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SETTING ALTERNATIVE DESKTOP MODES IN CONTROL PANEL
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APPEARANCE
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WALLPAPER/BACKGROUND
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Theme
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Screensaver
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ADVANCED
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Terminal Modality
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Modality : Full Desktop
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Modality : WBT Mode (Windows Based Terminal)
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Modality : Kiosk Mode (Single application)
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Modality : NOS-V, NOS-C and NOS-M
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Saving Display Changes
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NOS-V VMware Horizon client login box
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NOS-C Citrix client login box
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NOS-M Microsoft Remote Desktop Client login box
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NOS FOR VMWARE NOS-V
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GENERAL
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LOGOFF ACTION
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LOGIN
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RTAV(REAL TIME AUDIO AND VIDEO) CAMERA SETTINGS
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BLAST EXTREME SETTINGS
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PCOIP
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PROXY
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PLUGINS
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ADVANCED
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SAVING YOUR SETTINGS
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EDITING YOUR CONNECTION SETTINGS
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VMWARE HORIZON CONNECTION EXAMPLES
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NOS FOR CITRIX NOS-C
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GENERAL
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WORKSPACE
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WEBAPI/PNAGENT
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LOGIN
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LOGOFF ACTION
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PROXY
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RECONNECTION
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TEAMS OPTIMIZATION
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ADVANCED
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SAVING YOUR SETTINGS
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EDITING YOUR CONNECTION SETTINGS
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CITRIX CONNECTION EXAMPLES
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NOS FOR MICROSOFT NOS-M
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AZURE VIRTUAL DESKTOP AND WINDOWS 365 CLOUD PC(AVD/W365)
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General
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AVD/W365
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Logoff Action
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Resources
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Advanced
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DIRECT RDP
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Direct RDP
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Logoff Action
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Display
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Resources
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Programs
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Experience
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RD Gateway
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Advanced
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RDWEB WEBFEED
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RDWeb
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Logoff Action
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Display
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Resources
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Programs
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Experience
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RD Gateway
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Advanced
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SAVING YOUR SETTINGS
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EDITING YOUR CONNECTION SETTINGS
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AZURE VIRTUAL DESKTOP CONNECTION SETTING EXAMPLES
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CONTROL PANEL SETTINGS
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APPLICATIONS
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Connection Manager
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Creating a New Connection using the Connection Manager
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Saving your settings
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Editing your Connection settings
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Startup options for your Connections in Kiosk Mode
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Deleting your Connection settings
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Citrix Logger
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ICA Global Settings
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The example below shows editing of the “wfclient.ini”.
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Imprivata
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New Connection
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HARDWARE
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Display
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Dual Monitors
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Power Saving (DPMS)
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Keyboard
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Layout
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Keyboard Typing Settings
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Mouse
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Network
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Wireless Network Connection (Additional Hardware Opt.)
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Printers
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Configuring Local USB Printer
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Configuring a Network Printer
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Smart Card Service
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Sound
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Touch Screen
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USB Devices
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SYSTEM
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Auto Shutdown
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Certificates
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Importing Certificates
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Importing a Certificate from a USB storage device
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Importing a Certificate from the 10ZiG Manager Web Console
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Time & Date
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SECURE AGENT
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Desktop
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System Logs
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Collecting Logs via a USB storage device
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Collecting Logs via the 10ZiG Manager Web Console
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Network File System
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Power
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SECURITY SETTINGS
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System Information
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Information
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Packages
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Advanced
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Factory Default message
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Console Screen
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VNC Service
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VPN Client
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SideBar/TaskBar
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Getting Started
Packing List The following components are included in the package: · Thin
Client Device · Stand · 12v DC Power Adapter with Cord Optional equipment that
may be included: · USB Wheel Mouse · USB to PS2 Adapter · SVGA to DVI Adapter
· Monitor Mount Kit (may include optional video cable) · SVGA and DVI splitter
cable · Wireless Network Adapter and Antenna · Quick Installation Guide &
Management Software CD Check this list before installation to ensure that you
have received each item ordered. If you are missing any items, please contact
technical support.
Initial Hardware Setup To setup the device for initial use Attach the Stand
(if desired) Connect a Keyboard, Monitor and Mouse Connect to a Network and a
Power Source
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Support
If you require support for your Linux-based Thin Client, please contact your
region’s nearest Technical Support Center. While 10ZiG Technology does provide
technical support for its Linuxbased Thin Clients, it does not provide support
for the Linux operating system or application components that are obtained
from the open source community and that may be included as part of the
software image installed.
10ZiG Technology, Inc. Headquarters USA (North America)
2043 W. Lone Cactus Drive Phoenix, AZ 85027 Phone
866-865-5250 support@10zig.com
sales@10zig.com www.10zig.com
Headquarters UK (EMEA) 10ZiG Technology Limited
7 Highcliffe Road Leicester LE5 1TY UK
Phone +44 (0)116 2148661 support@10zig.eu sales@10zig.eu www.10zig.eu
For more information, FAQs, and helpful hints, please browse to
https://www.10zig.com/resources/support_faq
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ID Code
Each Thin Client has a unique ID CODE: which is the MAC address of the unit.
The sticker with this information may be found either on the side, bottom,
near the video output port or on a slide out tab on the back of the unit,
depending on which model you have. Please have this number available when
contacting 10ZiG Technology’s Technical Support for assistance. You can also
find this number against the Thin Client in the 10ZiG Manager Web Console or
inside the Control Panel and System Information of the Thin Client OS, as
shown by the arrows in the pictures below.
Control Panel System Information
The Device’s Information Sticker
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Introduction
This guide provides the user with instructions for the hardware configuration
of the Linux-based Thin Client and explains the various utilities used to
accomplish these tasks. Typically, a Thin Client is configured locally and
then used as a template to configure other units. These saved configuration
templates can then be pushed out to additional Thin Clients using the optional
“10ZiG Manager”, which can be found at http://www.10zig.com/manager.
10ZiG’s PeakOS and RepurpOS
The PeakOS and RepurpOS operating systems are the same platform under the hood
and run the same software version, with just a few minor differences.
PeakOS
This is 10ZiG’s Linux-based fully featured Thin Client operating system
running on 10ZiG hardware.
RepurpOS
If you’re running this Linux-based operating system on non-10ZiG 3rd party
hardware, then this goes by the name of RepurpOS and needs licensing to unlock
full functionality as outlined below. · Firmware Updates are not available,
either locally to the device via a USB drive, or remotely
via “10ZiG Manager”. A software support subscription registered (PAID) license
is required to gain access to these features. · Technical support is not
available and requires a Software Support subscription registered (PAID)
license to gain access. If you need further information on how to license your
RepurpOS operating system on non10ZiG 3rd party hardware, get in touch with
your local 10ZiG representative and they will be more than happy to assist you
with this
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Initial Setup
Upon Initial boot up you will be taken to the first of several “Configuration
Wizard” screens, where you’ll be prompted to accept the “End User License
Agreement” (EULA), select your country, keyboard settings, time zone, and set
the time and date.
To accept the EULA, read and scroll down to the bottom of the agreement and click “Agree”
EULA
Country and Language settings
Keyboard settings
Time and Date settings
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Access to the Control Panel
The Control Panel is where you’ll carry out most of the configuration of your
Thin Client and can be launched using several different methods as shown
below. Just look out for the “Gear” icon. On the taskbar Click the “Gears”
icon in the bottom left corner of the taskbar, when running in “Full Desktop”
mode.
On the Desktop Right click anywhere on the desktop or taskbar when running in
“Full Desktop” mode.
In Windows Based Terminal Mode(WBT) “F2” Key If you’re running your desktop
in WBT mode, then inside the “Connection Manager”, use the “F2” key to enter
the Control Panel.
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The Flexible PeakOS Desktop
You can completely customize the whole look and feel of the PeakOS desktop
environment and configure the Thin Client to run in full desktop mode,
WBT(Windows Based Terminal), Kiosk, and even transform the device to run as a
10ZiG NOS Zero Client. We’re mentioning these “Desktop” options now, as they
form the basis of your user’s working environment and serve as a starting
point for customization. Your organization might have a set standard for the
desktop configuration. It might want to run in single app kiosk mode for
example to only run a single application at startup to create a more secure
environment to both manage and work with. Note: We’ll show sample screens that
may include “Connection” icons, whilst we talk about “Desktop” modes, but
we’ll cover “Connection” types in more detail further on in this guide. Once
you have completed the initial setup you’ll see the default desktop displayed
below. We’ve highlighted areas on here that are useful for first time
navigation just to get you started.
1. Shutdown, Reboot and Sleep options. 2. Control Panel, Quick Items,
Programs and Connections. 3. Support Information. 4. Sound configuration
applet.
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Setting Alternative Desktop Modes in Control Panel
We’ll cover the Control Panel and its components in greater detail in the next
sections but first let’s explore the “Desktop” modes available to us inside
PeakOS. Open the Control Panel using the one of the methods mentioned in
“Access to the Control Panel” earlier and click on the icon named “Desktop”
under the “System” section heading and you will see the following screen
displayed with the “Appearance” tab highlighted.
Appearance
Wallpaper/Background · Position: Available options are “Center”, “Stretch” and
“Tile”. “Center” will place the image in the center of the screen. “Stretch”
will take a single background image, as seen in “Center” and stretch it to
fill the entire screen. “Tile” will take a single background image, as seen in
“Center” and replicate the image to fit the background. · Wallpaper: This drop
down menu lets you choose from a selection of different images or just leave
the option as “none” for the default solid color background.
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· Background Color: Click the “Custom” button and then select the specific
color for the background, using the “Color Picker” dialog box. Alternatively,
you can key in the RGB colors or the HEX value. Click “OK” to save the colour.
See below.
Note: To take advantage of using a “Background Color”, you must make sure that
“Wallpaper” drop down is set to “none” before you click “OK” to save the
“Desktop” changes. Theme · Theme: The default is “10ZiG-NOS” to resemble look
and feel of the “NOS” Zero Client theme. Other possible options are “LookXP-
WXPBlue”, “LookXP-BOS”, “10ZiG-pkos” and “10ZiG-Classic”. Screensaver ·
Screensaver: By default, the screensaver is set to “none”. There are many
screensavers to choose from in the drop down menu. If you select the
screensaver called “gltext” from the drop down, then you can type in your own
message in the “Custom Text” field, and this will be displayed when the
screensaver is launched. · Timeout: The number of minutes of keyboard or mouse
inactivity before the screensaver is launched. The default time is set to 1
minute of inactivity. · Use Password: Ticking this box for the first time will
allow you to specify a password against changing the screensaver options in
future. If you wish to change the password or remove password functionality
from the screensaver options, then you must click the “Set Password” button
and provide the existing password to gain access.
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Advanced
Terminal Modality Modality: This “Desktop” feature is one of the most
important as it defines the look, feel and overall mode of operation of your
Thin Clients. Some of these modes will give you greater operational control
from a user perspective and others will give your users the flexibility to add
and manage their own app content, based on what is currently available in
PeakOS. These modes are described below. Three of these modes are dedicated to
running your Thin Client just like a Zero Client with 10ZiG’s NOS-V(VMware),
NOS-C(Citrix) and NOS-M(Microsoft Remote Desktop) and will be explained later
on in this guide.
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Modality : Full Desktop This is the default mode that PeakOS installs with and
gives you access to and “Start Menu” and taskbar. It also allows you to create
your VDI/DaaS, browser and various other connections to the desktop. If you’re
running the desktop in “Full” mode, you have the option of including
additional desktop icons. Here is a sample screen of desktop icons “Control
Panel”, “Connection Manager” and “USB Devices”. Note the sda1 is our plugged
in USB device.
Modality : WBT Mode (Windows Based Terminal) This mode allows you to run your
connections from within a single terminal style window. All your connections
are created and contained inside the “Connection Manager” window. Access to
the “Control Panel” is available by pressing the “F2” function key whilst
you’re in this mode. Below is a sample screen of the WBT session “Connection
Manager” window with some example connection types.
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Modality : Kiosk Mode (Single application) This mode allows you to launch a
single application at startup, restricting access to all other desktop
functionality and is the best option for securing your Thin Client. This mode
is ideal for running your Thin Clients in locations such as schools,
libraries, airports, and hotel lobbies, where they can be left unattended for
public use. For example, you might want to run a browser that itself runs in
Kiosk mode, without any navigation buttons or address bar, launches a default
URL and relaunches itself if end users close the browser window or restart the
Thin Client. Below is a sample screen running a single browser window, itself
in “Kiosk” mode as described above.
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Modality : NOS-V, NOS-C and NOS-M These modes allow you to run your Thin
Client as a dedicated NOS-V, NOS-C or NOS-M device, running the respective
Linux VDI/DaaS clients, as mentioned earlier. Saving Display Changes Once
you’re happy with the display changes, click “OK” and you might need to accept
the “desktop needs to be restarted” dialog as shown below, for the desktop
changes to take place.
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Below are example of NOS-V, NOS-C and NOS-M desktop login boxes once you have
changed the modality to the required NOS flavor. NOS-V VMware Horizon client
login box
NOS-C Citrix client login box NOS-M Microsoft Remote Desktop Client login
box
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NOS for VMware NOS-V
General
After the initial setup you will be taken to the “VMware Horizon Settings”
screen, where you can begin to configure your Horizon connections.
· Connection type: The type of connection you wish to set up, either a “VMware
Horizon” or “VMware Workspace One”, that can be selected in the drop-down
list. Contact your system administrators for information on which is
applicable to you.
· Server URL: Network address for your VMware server environment. · Desktop:
The name of the published VMware desktop you would like to connect to by
default. · Application: The name of the published VMware applications you
would like to connect
to by default. · Reconnect Session: Enable for automatic reconnection when
session is disconnected. · Reconnect Timer: The interval you would like the
session attempt to reconnect (in
seconds).
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· Desktop Integration: Enabling this, separates VMware’s message prompts that
usually display as a banner within the Horizon client, to a local dialog box
instead. This can useful when users are prone to entering wrong credentials
the horizon client will reprompt for an incorrect password, but usually grays
out the username. With this enabled, instead you get a local dialog box that
status unknown username or password and brings you back to the NOS launchpad.
· Force URL selection: When multiple server addresses are defined in the
Server URL field (comma separated), the default behavior is to use the first
URL listed. To force users to select which server to connect to, enable this
option.
· Connect Once: On session logoff or password error/expiry, the VMware Client
is closed automatically where this option is enabled.
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Logoff Action
Allows you to control the behavior of the NOS-V client, following disconnect
and logoff from VMware remote session.
· Reboot on connection Logoff: This will shut down and reboot the Thin Client,
following logoff.
· Shutdown on connection logoff: This will physically power off the Thin
Client, following logoff.
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Login
In this section of VMware Horizon Settings, you have the ability to fully
customize the way that you want your users to login to their specific VMware
environment that we configured earlier.
· Login Mode: There are several ways that you can configure the NOS-V client
when it comes to logging in to your VMware sessions. These are :Default,
2-Factor, Anonymous, Kiosk, SCLogin(Smart Card) and SAML(Security Assertion
Markup Language). Choosing SCLogin, will present your users with a login
screen that asks for a smart card as shown below.
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· Protect Username: If you have selected “Login Mode” to be “SCLogin” for
smart card use, the username will be greyed out at the connect screen.
· Protect Domain Field: Ticking this option will disable editing of the DOMAIN
field on the main login screen.
· Hide Domain Field: Ticking this option will hide the DOMAIN field on the
main login screen.
· Cache Username: Enabling this, will ensure that the last logged on user is
remembered for next login.
· Reset Password and Password Reset URL: If you tick this box and type in the
address of a password reset URL in the box below it, this will be made
available as a “keylock” clickable link on the login box, as pointed to by the
red arrow in the image below.
Most URLs will work here, as it launches a browser and can fulfill other use
cases.
· Parse Token Username: Where 2-Factor mode is selected under VMware settings
and Parse Token Username’ option is enabled, the following should be transmitted at point of login. Vmware-view –serverURL=’horizonservername’ -q –userName=’username’ -passcode=’password’ Note: The following commands are used in place of aDefault’ login. The usage
in this scenario of –userName vs –tokenUserName causes the VMware client to
cache the username field, so that the user is only required to enter their
username once during login. Where as in scenario #1, the user is required to
enter the username twice. –passcode replaces password as used in `Default’
login scenario. · Clear browser cache: This prevents caching of details in
password reset browser window.
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RTAV(Real Time Audio and Video) Camera Settings
In this section of Vmware Horizon Settings, you have the ability to customize
and set thresholds for the Video being passed from the 10ZiG Thin Client to
the remote Vmware VDI desktop.
· Frame Rate: The number of frames per second that RTAV will transmit to the
virtual desktop. The example above shows the client transmitting video at a
rate of 15 frames per second (FPS). RTAV is a VMware virtual channel for
transmitting Audio/Video. This allows you to control the Frame rate for the
video feed. VMware only supports a maximum of 25 FPS, and it is limited to
what the webcam can actually offer, as well as the endpoint and what the
resolution of the webcam is set to.
· Width and Height: Changing these settings will determine the quality of the
video being transmitted to the virtual VMware desktop.
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Blast Extreme Settings
In this section you have the ability to customize options for the Blast
Extreme display protocol. This enables you to tweak the protocol to take best
advantage of your user’s operating environment, especially where network
conditions are less than favorable.
· Enable H264: This is set by default and should ideally be left as enabled,
as it’s an industry standard in video compression, and delivers a quality
video compression that’s more than adequate for most use cases.
· Enable H265(HEVC): If your infrastructure has limitations regarding
bandwidth but requires a more improved, lossless video stream, then consider
switching this on, as it has higher compression rates without visible
deterioration of video quality. Note: that this option requires the
appropriate NVIDIA hardware on the server side and equivalent client side
(6048qv/6148v). Consult NVIDIA documentation for further information.
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· High Color Accuracy: If your users require certain text and images to be
delivered with greater clarity, then they can switch HCA on. Note: This option
is decoded via CPU and hardware decoding not supported. This is generally not
recommended on lower powered hardware. The 6048qv or more powerful hardware is
required as a minimum.
· Net Connection Mode: Unless you require a specific mode for a particular use
case, leave this as default, as Blast Extreme will then determine the best
mode for efficient and accurate delivery of data.
· Lossy Network: Enable this feature when packet loss on the network is 20% or
greater.
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PCoIP
In this section you have the ability to customize options for the PCoIP
display protocol.
· Image cache size: PCoIP client-side image caching stores image content on
the client to avoid retransmission. This feature is enabled by default to
reduce bandwidth usage. Physical system memory should be taken into
consideration when changing this setting.
· Enable FIPS Mode: You can enable FIPS (Federal Information Processing
Standard) Compatible mode so that the client uses FIPS-compliant cryptographic
algorithms when communicating with remote desktops.
· SSL Protocol: Use this to set the SSL protocols to be used by the PCoIP
connection. The defaults are TLS1.1 and TLS1.2
· SSL Ciphers: Use this to modify the list of SSL ciphers that you want to
include in your secure SSL connection strings for authentication.
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Proxy
If your network is set to use a Proxy, here is where you will type in the
connection information.
· Use Proxy: Enables Proxy connection. · Type: Defaults to HTTP · Proxy Host:
Type in the proxy host IP or hostname. · Proxy Port: Assign port number. ·
Proxy Exclusion List: If you have multiple sites or addresses that you wish to
bypass
the proxy, then type them in here and use a comma to separate the list of
exclusions.
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Plugins
· Plugins (various): This tab gives administrators the ability to enable
(default) or disable the various plugins or virtual channels the VMware
horizon client can utilize. Although, many of these can be enabled/disabled on
the agent side, it can be useful to disable it on the client side, if users
are connecting to multiple environments that don’t’ have the same policies
applied or weren’t configured the same.
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Advanced
The Advanced section of the “VMware Horizon Settings” allows additional
customization to be carried out.
· Preferred Protocol: You can specify the communication protocol you use to
connect to your VDI. Setting the protocol on the client should take precedence
over the default protocol set for the desktop pool because the pool setting in
horizon administrator console must allow the user to select which protocol
they wish to use. Easily confirm the protocol selected, by launching VMware
Horizon Performance Tracker on the desktop you connected to, and the protocol
should show either PCoIP, Blast or RDP.
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· HTML5 MM Redirection: With HTML5 Multimedia Redirection, if an end user uses
the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser in a remote desktop, HTML5
multimedia content is sent to the client system, which reduces the load on the
ESXi host. The client plays the multimedia content, and the user has a better
audio and video experience.
Consult VMware Horizon documentation for further guidance on enabling this
functionality Agent side.
· Relative Mouse: If you use the Blast display protocol or the PCoIP display
protocol when using 3D applications in a remote desktop, mouse performance
improves when you enable the relative mouse feature.
In most circumstances, if you are using applications that do not require 3D
rendering, the Horizon Client transmits information about mouse pointer
movements by using absolute coordinates. Using absolute coordinates, the
client renders the mouse movements locally, which improves performance,
especially if you are outside the corporate network.
For work that requires using graphics-intensive applications, such as AutoCAD,
or for playing 3D video games, you can improve mouse performance by enabling
the relative mouse feature, which uses relative, rather than absolute,
coordinates.
· RDP experience: This sets the session quality relative to the network
performance when using RDP as the protocol.
· SSL Mode: Used for verifying/bypassing the connection server certificate.
Accept This will ignore server certificate validation (This is least secure
and not recommended)
Warn When connecting to a server with a self-signed certificate will prompt
to connect, view certificate, or cancel.
If connecting to a server with a certificate signed by a CA, it will proceed
if the signing CA certificates are installed on the client system, or it will
present an SSL error stating the connection is untrusted and the user will be
unable to connect. (default)
Reject signing CA certificates must be installed on the endpoint device or
an SSL error will be present, and the user will be unable to connect. (This is
the most secure option)
· Send Ctrl-Alt-Del: If enabled, when the user presses CTRL ALT DEL on the
Thin Client, it will send the key combination to the Windows virtual desktop
and present the windows security screen. When disabled, it will present the
user with the options to: Send CTRL ALT DEL, Disconnect, or Cancel. This
option is enabled by default.
· Show Toolbar: This allows you to show the VMware menu bar dropdown when in
the session. The VMware tool bar will be accessible in session, pinned at the
top of the screen.
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· Auto Hide Toolbar: Auto Hide the toolbar when enabled. The VMware toolbar
will automatically be unpinned (hidden) while in session.
· AutoConn if single: Switching this option, will enable automatic connection
if just one desktop is assigned to the logging in user.
· USB Debug Log: Enable USB Tracing · Show Hostname: Enabling this option will
display the host name of the client inside the
VMware Authentication login screen. It is useful for end users who can provide
10ZiG Manager administrators with the hostname required for shadowing their
session.
· End Session Key: Allows you to configure a hotkey to disconnect the session.
Set this option to CTRL-F12 to give users the ability to quickly disconnect
their VDI session. This will also close the VMware broker, regardless of
whether the “Connect Once” option is enabled or not.
· Log level: Configure the logging level for the VMware Horizon Client.
Options are All, Trace, Debug, Info, Warning, Error and Fatal.
· SSL Protocol: Supported versions of SSL protocol that are used.
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· SSL Ciphers: Supported Cyphers used by the Horizon Client connection
· USB Audio: Enabling this option disables RTAV and allows the redirection of
USB audio devices via USB Redirection. This option should only be enabled by
system administrators and is generally advised by 10ZiG not to enable it.
· Smart Card remove: Can be configured to “No Action” or “Disconnect”
depending on the desired behaviour. Used with smart card login (see Smart Card
Service applet > Advanced > Enable Smart Card Login). However, the setting on
the Horizon Connection Server takes precedence.
· Split VID / PID: Allows for the splitting of USB Composite devices which
have multiple interfaces on the same VID/PID. In general, USB redirection is
not needed for standard functionality such as audio, video, HID input, etc.
However, in some special circumstances, a device may need to be redirected
into a VDI session for full functionality, or if it requires a specific driver
to function. Further information can be found under VMware Horizon
documentation under the section `Configuring Device Splitting Policy Settings
for Composite USB Devices’ https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Horizon/2212
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· Auto Device Splitting: If enabled, this attempts to perform as above in
“Split VID/PID”, automatically without user input.
· Device with no Descriptor: This allows the device to be redirected even if
the Horizon Client fails to get the device descriptors.
· CRL checking: This allows the device to check for a CRL or Certificate
Revocation List from a Certificate Authority(CA), to prove that any existing
certificates are still valid or have been revoked before they are due to
expire. It’s a recommendation to disable this option where CRL checking is not
possible. For example, behind a private or air gapped network without access
to public CRL’s.
· Zoom SVB: Enable the override to allow for the use of Smart Virtual
Backgrounds with Zoom Optimization inside the virtual desktop. Only
recommended for performance devices due to the resources this requires.
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Saving your settings
Once you’re comfortable with all the settings for your 10ZiG NOS-V client,
just click the “OK” button and you’ll be taken back to the Horizon login
screen.
Editing your connection settings
If you need to go back into your settings for your client connection at any
time, then just click the “Gear” icon in the bottom left of the login screen,
indicated here with the “red arrow” below. Once inside the “Control Panel”,
just click the “VMware Global Settings” icon and you’ll be taken back into the
“Settings” console again.
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VMware Horizon Connection Examples
Here are a few examples of what your connection box might look like, along
with the settings required to enable them. Keyed-in credentials Here, we just
key in the credentials and click “Connect”.
Caching credentials and protecting the domain Go into the “VMware Global
Settings” inside the “Control Panel”, select login on the left menu and then
key in the Username, Password and Domain. Once you’ve done that, tick “Protect
Domain Field”, “Cache Username”, click “OK” and then close the “Control
Panel”.
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The login box should look something like below :-
Notice that the Domain field is now presented as a drop down selection and
cannot be typed into. Enabling Password reset link and hiding the domain Go
into the “VMware Global Settings” inside the “Control Panel”, select login on
the left menu and then click “Hide Domain Field”. Once you’ve done that, tick
the box named “Reset Password” and then type in the URL of your company’s
reset password page as shown. Click “OK” to save then changes and exit the
control panel.
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Notice that the login box now has a new keylock icon on there. Pointed to by
the “Red Arrow” below. Clicking this will open the site that you completed
above in the “Password Reset URL”.
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NOS for Citrix NOS-C
General
After the initial setup you will be taken to the “Citrix Settings” screen,
where you can begin to configure your Citrix connections.
· Connection type: You have several ways in which to connect to your Citrix
environment, these are listed in the dropdown. Options available are :Citrix
Workspace, Citrix Storefront Receiver for web(default) and Citrix Storefront
WebAPI/PNAgent. Contact your system administrators for information on which is
applicable to you.
· Server Address: Type in the IP or FQDN(Full Qualified Domain Name) server
address of the Citrix server.
· Force URL Selection: When multiple server addresses are defined in the
Server URL field (comma separated), the default behavior is to use the first
URL listed. To force users to select which server to connect to, enable this
option.
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· Autolaunch Default URL: Default URL can be specified in the Server Address
Box. Disabling this will present the user with the choice of URL to select.
You can have multiple URL’s for different Citrix environments separated by a
comma in the server address field.
· Kiosk Mode: Enabling this option hides the local Thin Client desktop
launchpad. This option should only be used with “Receiver for Web”. Verify the
launchpad is hidden when enabled. Note: Administrators can bring the launchpad
back by pressing CTRL+ALT+M
· Hide Decorations: Enabling this feature hides the quit option from the Web
Browser, when using “Receiver for Web” connection type. Verify the top bar and
quit button are not shown when using the “Receiver for Web” connection.
· Debug Output: Enabling this option displays a live debug Window in the
Citrix session top right hand corner and provides live metrics from the
session. Not available with “Citrix Workspace(Self-Service)” connection type.
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Workspace
This section enables you to customize the session setup for your Citrix
Workspace connections and are only applicable when using the “Self-Service”
connection type defined under “General”.
· Self-Service UI mode: The two options when connecting in “Self-Service” mode
are Windowed(default) or Full screen.
· Desktops mode: This option lets you determine if the Citrix desktops will be
opened in a window or full screen.
· Reconnection at login: This will reconnect to your previous existing session
when logging back in to Citrix.
· Reconnection at refresh: When refreshing the desktops, re-launch the
disconnected Citrix session.
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· Mic and Webcam: This option allows you to pass through the Mic and Webcam to
the Citrix desktops once connected.
· Show search box: Enabling this feature will display a search box when logged
in to Citrix to search for desktops/applications available to the user.
· App or Desktop name: This is the name of the default app or desktop that you
wish to launch when the Citrix session starts.
· Permit Preferences: Permit Citrix Workspace App preferences. When enabled
and logged into the Citrix Workspace App go to cog icon (workspace app
settings) and select Preferences – the preferences window should open.
· Close Self-Service on exit: This will close the list of available
Desktops/Applications when the user disconnects/logs off the session.
· Cache Cloud.com Credentials: Enable this option to cache the last logged on
user’s credentials when connecting to a Citrix cloud environment. Cached
credentials will persist following a reboot and won’t require the user to
reauthenticate, based on the timeout policy set in the Citrix cloud admin
console. This option is disabled by default, credentials are not cached, and
users need to authenticate each time they launch the Citrix Workspace App
(Self Service Connection).
· Inactivity Timeout: Enabling this feature here will switch on the
“Inactivity Timeout” option for the Workspace App. Once inside the Workspace
App, you can set the time before the Citrix session signs your users out.
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WebAPI/PNAgent
This section enables you to customize the session setup for your Citrix
Storefront(WebAPI/PNAgent) connections and is only applicable to this
particular Citrix Storefront connection type as defined in “General”.
· Reconnect at login: Switching this option, will enable automatic session
reconnection after StoreFront/PNAgent authentication.
· AutoConn if single: Switching this option, will enable automatic connection
if just one desktop is assigned to the logging in user.
· AutoConn fav. desktop: Switching this option on will enable automatic
connection to the first favorite desktop assigned to the logging in user.
(StoreFront WebAPI only)
· AutoConn favorite. app: Switching this option on will enable automatic
connection to the first favorite application assigned to the logging in user.
(StoreFront WebAPI only)
· AutoConn first in list: Switching this option on, will enable automatic
connection to the first desktop in the list of assigned desktops to the
logging in user.
· AutoConn hostname: This will enable automatic connection to the desktop with
a description that matches the Thin Client hostname.
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· AutoConn by name: This will enable automatic connection to the first desktop
with a description that matches the specific string in the “Desktop name”
field below it.
· Desktop name: This is the name of the desktop that will be matched against
when ticking the “AutoConn by name” field above it. Wildcards allowed in this
field are * and ?.
· Hide resource list: This will hide the desktop and app resource icon
container after authentication has taken place. To be used with one of the
AutoConn options above (otherwise you log in and nothing happens)
· Hide Taskbar list menu: To be used with SideBar/TaskBar. After logging in
through WebAPI/PNAgent, Citrix has an extra icon in SB/TB which can be clicked
to access a menu. Verify with this enabled that the menu icon in the SB/TB is
hidden after logging in.
· Close list on exit: This will close the desktop and app resource icon
container after disconnect/logoff.
· Password Change Server: Enabling this will enable use of a direct ICA
connection to change the user password.
· Server name: This is the password change server name that was enabled to
point to in the “Password Change Server” field above.
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· Hide Domain: Enabling this will hide the domain field from the
authentication window. · ReadOnly Domain: Enabling this will show the domain
name but won’t allow for its
modification in the authentication window. · Server Certificate: This dropdown
list determines the behavior of the connection if a
Certificate Authentication error occurs. Options are “Accept”, “Warning” or
“Reject”. · Persistent Login: This leaves the list of available Apps/Desktops
open when exiting a
Citrix Session. · Logoff at idle timeout: Enabling this will logoff the user
from the connected Citrix
desktop following the period of inactivity that is set in the “Idle timeout”
field below it. · Idle timeout: This is the amount of idle time before desktop
logoff in minutes. The
“Logoff at idle timeout” field above needs to be enabled for this to be
available. · User Agent: Used to rewrite the User Agent of the Client browser.
This field is used to
route the client to the appropriate Storefront stores/sites by means of a
profile (setup on the server side). The default User Agent field value is
CitrixReceiver’ but can be changed to another value such asiPad’ (or some
other User Agent value defined on the NetScaler) to route those users/devices
to the proper store/site. · Debug log: Enabling this will write log
information to /tmp/tzstorefront.log
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Login
In this section you can customize the way that you want your users to login to
their Citrix Storefront(WebAPI/PNAgent) connection.
· Username, Password and Domain: These are the credentials that match your
specific environment.
· Use SC Login: Enable this setting to allow use of Smart Card login. This
option will not work when using an actual smart card with user certificates
installed (if your smartcard requires a PIN to access the user certs then this
option is not correct – use the Cert SC login option instead).
· Cert SC login: Enable this setting to allow use of Certificate based Smart
Card login. A PIN is required to access the user certs.
· SC remove: If you intend to use Cert-based SC login, then you have the
option to choose what happens when the smart card is removed from the reader.
The choices available are to take “No Action” or “Disconnect” the session.
· Reset Password and Password Reset URL: Ticking this box, will enable you to
then specify a password reset URL in the box below.
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If you do specify a “Password Reset URL”, this will then be made available as
a keylock clickable link on the login box, as pointed to by the yellow arrow
in the image below.
Logoff Action
There are 4 options available when logging off from the active Citrix session,
“Auto Login” again, Reboot” the Thin Client or “Shutdown” and power off the
device or “No Action”.
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Proxy
If your network is set to use a Proxy, here is where you will type in the
connection information.
· Use Proxy: Enables Proxy connection. · Type: Options are HTTP and SOCKS v5.
· Proxy Host: Type in the proxy host IP or FQDN hostname. · Proxy Port: Assign
port number. · Proxy Exclusion List: If you have multiple sites or addresses
that you wish to bypass
the proxy, then type them in here and use a comma to separate the list of
exclusions.
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Reconnection
This section allows you to set reconnections if your session disconnects for
whatever reason.
· Enable Reconnection: This switches automatic reconnection on. · Reconnection
Delay: The amount of time taken following disconnection, that a
reconnect will be attempted. In this example above, after 30 seconds of being
disconnected, the reconnect will be attempted. · Reconnection Retries: This is
the maximum number of retry attempts. This example will try 3 times to
reconnect before it stops trying.
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Teams Optimization
This section allows you to optimize Microsoft Teams sessions inside the VDI.
· Override Performance: This allows you to select the webcam encoding size on
the Thin Client, ready for the VDI. The maximum resolution currently supported
is 720p. However, this is dependent on the hardware being used and must be
adjusted with caution, accordingly. If this is disabled, Citrix Workspaces
App(CWA) will use the platform estimator to determine the “Teams” webcam
encoding rate and size.
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Advanced
The Advanced section of “Citrix Settings” allows additional customization to
be carried out.
· Font Smoothing: Enables the quality of displayed fonts beyond that available
through traditional font smoothing or anti-aliasing.
· Browser Redirection: Allows for the redirection of client browser viewport
content directly to the Thin Client and thus reducing overhead inside. This
feature uses Citrix Workspace app to instantiate a corresponding rendering
engine on the client side, which fetches the HTTP and HTTPS content from the
URL. Note: This is available on “Citrix Receiver for Linux” minimum version
13.9
· Client Audio: Allows for the configuration of client audio within an ICA
session. In the desktop session, when this setting is disabled, the speaker-
icon on the taskbar will have a red-X and show “No Audio Output device is
installed”. When enabled, the speaker will not have a red-X and the Citrix HDX
Audio volume slider will be adjustable.
· Enable OSS: Allows off-screen drawing surfaces to be used when constructing
the image to be displayed. This reduces flicker.
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· Session Reliability: Establishes an ICA session on TCP port 2598 (instead of
port 1494) when connecting to Presentation Server. When connected to the VDI,
open a cmd prompt and run: “ctxsession /v”. If you have session reliability
turned on you should see port 2598 used rather than 1494.
· Scrolling Delay: Set scrolling delay in msec. Set to a larger value to
prevent over scrolling.
· Disable XRender: Disables XRender. · CDROM for XenAPP: Allow automatic
connection of CD-ROM drives. · Show Connection Bar: Enable to show connection
bar at the top of the VDI session. · USB Redirection: This makes locally
attached USB devices appear as generic USB
devices inside the virtual desktop on the VDI’s OS. With this enabled, plug in
a USB device and find the device name in USB Devices applet and set it to
Include. Verify it shows as a USB device in the VDI session. For example,
verify USB webcam can be used in session by setting its device class to
Include. · Session End Key: This is a hot key that can be used to end a
current running session. Keys available are F9, F10, F11, F12 or disabled. ·
Show Hostname: If you wish for the Thin Client hostname to appear on the
“Launchpad”, then enable this option. This is useful for end users who can
provide 10ZiG Manager administrators with the hostname required for shadowing
their session.
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· Client Drive Mapping: Options are default or disabled.
· HDX Adaptive Transport: Set this to enabled to take advantage of EDT,
Enlightened Data Transport. EDT improves data throughput for all ICA virtual
channels on potentially unreliable networks, providing a better and more
consistent user experience.
· UDP Audio: Enable this option to allow audio transport over UDP for a better
audio experience in low-bandwidth situations.
· UDP Audio Ports Low and High range: The Audio UDP port range specifies the
range of port numbers that the Windows VDA uses to exchange audio packet data
with the user device. By default, the range is 16500 through 16509.
· Service Continuity: Service continuity removes or minimizes dependence on
the availability of components involved in the connection process. Users can
launch their Citrix DaaS apps and desktops regardless of the cloud services
health status.
· Zoom SVB(Smart Virtual Background): Enable the override to allow for the use
of Smart Virtual Backgrounds with Zoom Optimization inside the virtual
desktop. Only recommended for performance devices due to the resources this
requires.
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Saving your settings
Once you’re comfortable with all the settings for your 10ZiG NOS-C client,
just click the “OK” button and you’ll be taken back to the Citrix login
screen.
Editing your connection settings
If you need to edit your connection settings again, then click the “Gear” icon
in the bottom left of the “Login” screen as shown by the “yellow arrow” below.
You’ll be taken back into the “Control Panel”, where you can click the “Citrix
Workspace” icon in the top left and then make changes as outlined in the
previous sections of this guide.
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Citrix Connection Examples
Here are a few of the switches enabled in various settings sections and what
your connection box might look like. Inside the settings menu, select
“General” menu option, select the “Connection type” to be Citrix
StoreFront(Receiver for Web) and key in the Server Address.
Next, we’re going to enable the client hostname to be displayed on the
“Launchpad”. Click on the “Advanced” menu option and then scroll down to “Show
Hostname” setting, as shown by the red arrow below.
Tick this box, click “SAVE” in the bottom right and then close the “Control
Panel”. Your login box should now display the hostname of your Thin Client as
below.
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If you click the login button in the top right corner of the “Launchpad” then
you’ll see a typical “StoreFront” login process as follows :-
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Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 Cloud PC(AVD/W365)
General
· Connection Type: There are 3 available that include Azure Virtual
Desktop(AVD) that also includes connections to Windows 365 Cloud PC, RDWeb
webfeed and Direct RDP and all the configuration features inside the different
types will be referenced in the following screens.
· Feed discovery URL: There are 4 URLs that can be supplied, “AVD ARM”
(Default) Spring 2020 Update, supporting Azure Resource Manager, “AVD
Classic” Fall 2019 Update, “AVD US Gov” and “Custom”.
· Use Credentials: If you enable this, then the credentials fields below it
will be used at login until changed or disabled.
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· Cache Username: Caching the username will remember the last logged in user
on the Thin Client.
· Example of using and caching credentials.
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Azure Virtual Desktop
· Window mode: Set to Fullscreen (Default), Windowed or Maximized as required.
· Monitors: Set the monitor topology as required. By default, desktops and
applications
display to “All” monitors. · Autoconn if single: Following user authentication
to Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows
365 Cloud PC, if the user has access to just a single desktop or application,
then this automatic connection will be performed where this option is enabled.
· Autoconn by name: As an alternative option, it is possible to auto connect
to desktops or applications by name and define that application or desktop
name in the field below it.
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· Desktop icons(PKOS): If you’re using a PKOS operating system, once
authenticated to AVD, the available resources will be added as shortcuts to
the PKOS desktop.
· Hide resource list: Following user authentication, the resource list
containing desktops and applications can be hidden to the user by enabling
this option.
· Close list on exit: Where the user connects to a desktop or application, the
resource list can be automatically closed when logging out of them. This is
useful in hotdesking scenarios.
· Hide Domain: When this is enabled, the domain field is hidden to the user
during login. This is useful in scenarios where you do not want to expose the
Domain name / Tenant name to the users during authentication. When “ReadOnly
Domain” is enabled, this prevents the user from editing the Domain name /
Tenant name during login.
· ReadOnly Domain: When “ReadOnly Domain” is enabled, this prevents the user
from editing the Domain name / Tenant name during login.
· Logoff at idle timeout: Enable this option to log users off from their Azure
Virtual Desktop session automatically where idle timeout occurs.
· Idle timeout: Specify the idle timeout in minutes. · HTTP proxy address: The
address of your proxy server in the format of “host:port”, for
example 192.165.177.211:443 · Server Certificate: Sets the level of cert
validation to “Accept” or “Reject”.
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Logoff Action
· Reboot on LogOff: Enabling this option will reboot the Thin Client once your
user has logged off their current AVD session.
· Shutdown on LogOff: Enabling this will shut down and power off the Thin
Client.
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Resources
· Computer Sound: You have 3 options regarding sound settings and redirection.
You can choose to “Bring to local computer”, “Do not play” or “Leave at remote
computer”.
· Microphone: Enable this option for bidirectional audio. The audio device can
be configured under the Control Pane, in the Audio section.
· Printers: Enable this option to bring printers from this device to the
virtual desktop. · Drives: Enabling this option will enable Client Drive
Redirection (Mass Storage Only). · Camera: Enable this to redirect webcams to
your virtual desktop. Use the frame rate
option to specify the fps when delivering camera content to the VM. · Teams
Optimization: Enable this option to optimize Microsoft Teams inside the VDI
and
redirect audio and video to the Thin Client. You can check if this is active
inside the “Teams” app in the VDI by going into the profile menu, selecting
“About” and “Version”. You will see the “AVD Media Optimized” in the version
banner text. · Smart Card: Enable this option for redirection of Smart Cards
into your Azure Virtual Desktops.
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Advanced
· Connection Bar: Enable this option to display a connection bar which is
displayed whilst connecting to desktops and applications. This is a useful
feature in combination with the Sidebar / Taskbar. See Sidebar / Taskbar for
further details.
· Show Hostname: Enable this option to display the endpoint hostname at the
Microsoft Remote Desktop Authentication login screen. This is useful for end
users who can provide 10ZiG Manager administrators with the hostname required
for shadowing their session.
· Log Level: Enable debug logging here, see Troubleshooting & Debug for
further information.
· Allow Password Change: Enable this option to allow users to change their
password when required and also on demand.
· Password Change URL:The Password Change URL is contacted using a kiosk based
secure browser but can be changed here. The default address it connects to is
`https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/changepassword.aspx’.
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· USB redirection (Experimental): Enable this option, at user discretion to
redirect your USB devices through to the VDI. Note: This is an experimental
feature and as such may produce differing results.
· RDP Shortpath: RDP Shortpath is a feature of Azure Virtual Desktop that
establishes a direct UDP-based transport between a supported Windows Remote
Desktop client and session host. This article shows you how to configure RDP
Shortpath for managed networks and public networks. For more information, see
this article below : Configure RDP Shortpath – Azure Virtual Desktop |
Microsoft Learn
· Zoom Plugin: Enable this is option for Zoom VDI Optimization. This can be
used if the matching plugin is installed to the Windows desktop.
· Optimized Group Calls: This option can negotiate “optimized” bandwidth that
helps to fix black video stream during group calls.
· Zoom SVB: Enable the override to allow for the use of Smart Virtual
Backgrounds with Zoom Optimization inside the virtual desktop.
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Direct RDP
General
· Server: This is where you can enter a single server or multiple URL
addresses of the remote desktop connection broker. If multiples are used, then
they should be comma separated.
· Smart Card logon: If you enable this, then you can attach a smart card
device to your client and use this as the logon option. The remote desktop
authentication screen will look like this below. If you do enable this, then
the credentials options will be greyed out.
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· Use Credentials: If you enable this, then the credentials fields below it
will be used at login until changed or disabled.
· Security Protocol: This is where you can specify a level of Network
Authentication for the protocol type. Options are “Negotiate”, “RDP”, “NLA”,
or “TLS”.
· Force Server: If you enter multiple server URLs in the “Server URL” field,
comma separated, a drop-down menu is added to launchpad and forces the user to
select the server before connecting.
· Reconnect Session: When set, this should automatically attempt to reconnect
after logging off or disconnecting from a session.
· Reconnect Timer: Set the timeout for the reconnect prompt, following
disconnection. · Cache Username: Caching the username will remember the last
logged in user on the
Thin Client.
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Direct RDP Hide Domain: Tick this box to hide the domain field on the
authentication login screen.
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Logoff Action
· Reboot on LogOff: Enabling this option will reboot the Thin Client once your
user has logged off their current AVD session.
· Shutdown on LogOff: Enabling this will shut down and power off the Thin
Client.
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Display
· Multi Monitor Mode: Options are for display on monitor 1, 2, 3 or all
together. · Color Mode: Changes the color options to suit the particular
connection performance.
This ranges from 256 colors to “Highest Quality(32 bit)”.
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Resources
· Computer sound: You have 3 options regarding sound settings and redirection.
You can choose to “Bring to local computer”, “Do not play” or “Leave at remote
computer”.
· Microphone: Verify the VDI session receives audio input from the Thin
Client’s local mic.
· Win Keys(ALT+TAB): With these options enabled, verify ALT+TAB operates in
the VDI session or on the Thin Client.
· Printers: Enabling this option will enable you to attach a local printer to
the Thin Client and then print to it from within the VDI desktop.
· Drives: This passes USB mass storage devices to the VDI session. · Smart
Card: This option, when enabled will pass the smart card through to the VDI
desktop.
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· Serial Ports: Tick this option to gain access to serial port configurations
below. · Serial Port: If you connect a USB foot to the 10ZiG 6000q, then
serial port device
“/dev/ttyUSB0” is made available to the VDI. · Windows COM port: With the USB
foot attached, you can specify what COM port
number will be passed to the VDI.
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Programs
· Start program: When enabled, the Program path, and Working directory fields
are available to be set below this field.
· Program path: Add a program path, such as C:WindowsSystem32notepad.exe.
After you establish an RDP connection to a Remote Desktop you will see the
“Notepad” program launches.
· Working directory: This is the working directory in which the program name
above will be launched from.
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Experience
· Connection speed: You can adjust this value to suit your individual
performance needs, or just leave it as “Auto” to negotiate the best speed
available.
· Font Smoothing: Enables the quality of displayed fonts beyond that available
through traditional font smoothing or anti-aliasing.
· Desktop Wallpaper: Verify when enabled, the remote desktop shows the
wallpaper and when disabled the remote desktop’s wallpaper should not be
shown.
· Desktop Composition: This option either enables or disables the “Aero”
effects content of the remote Windows desktop.
· Full window drag : When the option is enabled, dragging the remote desktop
window should show its content, when disabled, the content will be blank.
· Menu Animations: When enabled, the right-click context menus show their
animations when opening and closing. Disabled, the right-click context menus
show no animation.
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· Enable Theming: Determines whether themes are permitted when you log on to
the remote computer.
· Enable Compression: Determines whether bulk compression is enabled when it’s
transmitted by RDP to the local computer.
· Enable Bitmap Cache: Determines whether bitmaps are cached on the local Thin
Client (disk-based cache). Bitmap caching can improve the performance of your
remote session.
· Clipboard Sharing: When enabled, you can copy and paste text from the local
client to the remote Windows desktop session and from the remote session to
the local client.
· Graphics Mode: This feature lets you specify which codec to use during the
RDP session. Available options are RDP, RemoteFX, AVC420(Default) and AVC444.
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RD Gateway
· Use RD Gateway: A RD Gateway allows you to establish a RDP connection to a
Windows system but tunneled through a HTTPS connection.
· Server: The address of your RD Gateway Server. · Load Balancer Info: This is
the address of your load balancer server within your
corporation. To obtain the address of your load balancer server, follow the
steps below :1. On Windows 10 or later PC, open up a web browser and type the
address below.
https://YourRDWebBrokerHostName/rdweb (Where YourRDWebBrokerHostName is the
server name hosting the RD Web Broker role) which should take you to the RD
web access page. 2. When prompted, log in using valid credentials, and you’ll
be taken to a page which lists all of your available apps and desktops. 3.
Single click on one of the apps/desktops that is a part of your broker
collection, this should then download a “.rdp” file (if clicking it tries to
launch the session instead, try using a different browser).
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4. To get the relevant information needed, right click the “.rdp” file and
select “Open with…” and select an editor such as “Notepad”.
5. Once opened, look towards the bottom of the file and you should see a line
that starts “loadbalanceinfo:s:tsv://”. The rest of the string after this
point will be unique to each environment, copy or make note of everything that
appears after “tsv://” and head back to the thin client. For this example,
let’s assume the load balancer info we copied following the “tsv://” is MS
Terminal Services Plugin.1.CollectionName
6. Inside the RD Gateway configuration screen again on your 10ZiG NOS-M
client, tick the box named “Use Load Balancer” and just type or paste the
copied value into the “Load Balance Info:” field. See below, using our assumed
example.
· Use Credentials from General Tab: Tick this box to use the credentials
supplied at the time of connection or the credentials stored in the “General”
tab which will be used both to authenticate to the gateway server and to the
remote desktop .
· Username, Password, Domain: Enter the username, password, and domain to use
for authentication to the remote desktop gateway server. These parameters
should be used when Use GW Credentials is enabled.
· Transport: This sets the transport protocol to be used by the connection to
the RD Gateway. Possible values are “AUTO”(Default), “PC” and “HTTP”.
· Bypass GW: This option is enabled by default, verify when checked that the
gateway settings set are bypassed.
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Advanced
· Ignore Certificates: This option will allow you to ignore server
certificates checking when connecting to your RDP server. If you tick this
option, then the field “Accept Certificate on First Connect” is not available.
· Accept Certificate on First Connect: Accept certificate unconditionally on
first connect and deny on subsequent connections if the certificate does not
match.
· Use Hardware Graphics Rendering: Leave this box ticked to take advantage of
hardware graphics rendering on your Thin Client where available. This option
will offload the video decoding process to the graphical processing unit,
rather than in software. In some instances, it can increase performance.
· Connection Bar: Determines whether the connection bar appears at the top of
the VDI screen in the session.
· Show Hostname: Enabling this will display the hostname of the Thin Client in
the “Launchpad”.
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· Sound backend: Possible values are to use pulse or alsa sound
configurations. Select the sound system that is used on the client when
redirecting audio from the host machine to the client machine. The recommended
and default option is pulse, where certain audio devices are having issues,
alsa can be tried to determine if it offers a better user experience.
· Log Level: Sets the level of log information to be captured during the RDP
sessions and is set to “off” by default.
· Allow Password Change: When enabled, a padlock icon is added to the
launchpad to allow users to click on it to open ZeroWeb to access a self-
service password reset web portal.
· Password Change URL: Define the self-service password reset URL that is to
be used when the password reset icon is clicked on the launchpad.
· USB redirection(Experimental): Enable this option, at user discretion to
redirect your USB devices through to the VDI. Note: This is an experimental
feature and as such may produce differing results.
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RDWeb webfeed
General
· Server: This is where you can enter a single server or multiple URL
addresses of the remote desktop connection broker. If multiples are used, then
they should be comma separated.
· Smart Card logon: If you enable this, then you can attach a smart card
device to your client and use this as the logon option. The remote desktop
authentication screen will look like this below. If you do enable this, then
the credentials options will be greyed out.
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· Use Credentials: If you enable this, then the credentials fields below it
will be used at login until changed or disabled.
· Security Protocol: This is where you can specify a level of Network
Authentication for the protocol type. Options are “Negotiate”, “RDP”, “NLA”,
or “TLS”.
· Force Server: If you enter multiple server URLs in the “Server URL” field,
comma separated, a drop-down menu is added to launchpad and forces user to
select the server before connecting.
· Reconnect Session: When set, this should automatically attempt to reconnect
after logging off or disconnecting from a session.
· Reconnect Timer: Set the timeout for the reconnect prompt, following
disconnection. · Cache Username: Caching the username will remember the last
logged in user on Thin
Client.
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RDWeb
· AutoConn if single: Switching this option, will enable automatic connection
if just one desktop is assigned to the logging in user.
· AutoConn first in list: Switching this option on, will enable automatic
connection to the first desktop in the list of assigned desktops to the
logging in user.
· AutoConn hostname: When enabled, this option will auto connect to a desktop
with the same name as the unit hostname.
· AutoConn by name: Enabling this option will allow you to specify a desktop
name in the following field to auto connect to.
· Hide resource list: This will hide the connection broker.
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· Close list on exit: This auto closes the connection broker after
disconnecting from a session.
· Hide Domain: When enabled, the domain field on the launchpad should be
hidden. If a domain is populated with the domain field above then, that should
still be present.
· ReadOnly Domain: With this enabled the domain name cannot be edited in the
login window.
· Server Certificate: This dropdown list determines the behavior of the
connection if a Certificate Authentication error occurs. Options are “Accept”,
“Warning” or “Reject”.
· Persistent Login: To be used with auto login. When you save the credentials
in the configuration, the connection goes straight to showing the user
entitled app list (Resource List, icon container). When you click “Logoff”,
the icon container is closed, and you return to the login dialog box. When the
Persistent Login is unchecked, the password is removed from the GUI
(security). If you want to keep the password there after disconnecting, ready
to be used for login, you must check the Persistent Login check box.
· Logoff at idle timeout: After enabling this option, verify the timeout can
be edited. After testing idle timeout, disable this option and verify the
session does not disconnect after the specified time of inactivity.
· Idle timeout: Sets the number to disconnect after inactivity. · Debug log:
Enabling this option creates the log files /tmp/tzrdweb.log and
/tmp/tzrdweb.xml
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Logoff Action
· Reboot on LogOff: Enabling this option will reboot the Thin Client once your
user has logged off their current AVD session.
· Shutdown on LogOff: Enabling this will shut down and power off the client.
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Display
· Multi Monitor Mode: Options are for display on monitor 1, 2 or both
together. · Color Mode: Changes the color options to suit the particular
connection performance.
This ranges from 256 colors to “Highest Quality(32 bit)”.
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Resources
· Computer sound: With “Bring to local computer” enabled, verify the audio
from the VDI session can be heard from the Thin Client. Other options include
“Do no play” and “Leave at remote computer”
· Microphone: Verify the VDI session receives audio input from the Thin
Client’s local mic.
· Win Keys(ALT+TAB): With these options enabled verify ALT+TAB operates in the
VDI session or on the Thin Client.
· Drives: This passes USB mass storage devices to the VDI session. · Printers:
Enabling this option will enable you to attach a local printer to the Thin
Client
and then print to it from within the VDI desktop. · Smart Card: This option,
when enabled will pass the smart card through to the VDI
desktop.
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· Serial Ports: Tick this option to gain access to serial port configurations
below. · Serial Port: If you connect a USB foot to the 10ZiG 6000q, then
serial port device
“/dev/ttyUSB0” is made available to the VDI. · Windows COM port: With the USB
foot attached, you can specify what COM port
number will be passed to the VDI.
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Programs
· Start program: When enabled, the Program path, and Working directory fields
are available to be set below this field.
· Program path: Add a program path, such as C:windowssystem32notepad.exe.
After you establish an RDP connection to a Remote Desktop you will see the
“Notepad” program launches.
· Working directory: This is the working directory in which the program name
above will be launched from.
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Experience
· Connection speed: You can adjust this value to suit your individual
performance needs, or just leave it as “Auto” for it to negotiate the best
speed available.
· Font Smoothing: Enables the quality of displayed fonts beyond that available
through traditional font smoothing or anti-aliasing.
· Desktop Wallpaper: Verify when enabled, the remote desktop shows the
wallpaper and when disabled the remote desktop’s wallpaper should not be
shown.
· Desktop Composition: This option either enables or disables the “Aero”
effects content of the remote Windows desktop.
· Full window drag : When the option is enabled, dragging the remote desktop
window should show its content, when disabled, the content will be blank.
· Menu Animations: When enabled, the right-click context menus show their
animations when opening and closing. Disabled, the right-click context menus
show no animation.
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· Enable Theming: Determines whether themes are permitted when you log on to
the remote computer.
· Enable Compression: Determines whether bulk compression is enabled when it’s
transmitted by RDP to the local computer.
· Enable Bitmap Cache: Determines whether bitmaps are cached on the local Thin
Client (disk-based cache). Bitmap caching can improve the performance of your
remote session.
· Clipboard Sharing: When enabled, you can copy and paste text from the local
client to the remote Windows desktop session and from the remote session to
the local client.
· Graphics Mode: This feature lets you specify which CODECS to use during the
RDP session. Available options are RDP, RemoteFX, AVC420(Default) and AVC444.
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RD Gateway
· Use RD Gateway: A RD Gateway allows you to establish a RDP connection to a
Windows system but tunneled through a HTTPS connection.
· Server: The address of your RD Gateway Server. · Load Balancer Info: This is
the address of your load balancer server within your
corporation. To obtain the address of your load balancer server, follow the
steps below :-
1. On Windows 10 or later PC, open up a web browser and type the address
below. https://YourRDWebBrokerHostName/rdweb (Where YourRDWebBrokerHostName is
the server name hosting the RD Web Broker role) which should take you to the
RD web access page.
2. When prompted, log in using valid credentials, and you’ll be taken to a
page which lists all of your available apps and desktops.
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3. Single click on one of the apps/desktops that is a part of your broker
collection, this should then download a “.rdp” file (if clicking it tries to
launch the session instead, try using a different browser).
4. To get the relevant information needed, right click the “.rdp” file and
select “Open with…” and select an editor such as “Notepad”.
5. Once opened, look towards the bottom of the file and you should see a line
that starts “loadbalanceinfo:s:tsv://”. The rest of the string after this
point will be unique to each environment, copy or make note of everything that
appears after “tsv://” and head back to the thin client. For this example,
let’s assume the load balancer info we copied following the “tsv://” is MS
Terminal Services Plugin.1.CollectionName
6. Inside the RD Gateway configuration screen again on your 10ZiG NOS-M
client, tick the box named “Use Load Balancer” and just type or paste the
copied value into the “Load Balance Info:” field. See below, using our assumed
example.
· Use Credentials from General Tab: Tick this box to use the credentials
supplied at the time of connection or the credentials stored in the “General”
tab which will be used both to authenticate to the gateway server and to the
remote desktop .
· Username, Password, Domain: Enter the username, password, and domain to use
for authentication to the remote desktop gateway server. These parameters
should be used when Use GW Credentials is enabled.
· Transport: This sets the transport protocol to be used by the connection to
the RD Gateway. Possible values are “AUTO”(Default), “PC” and “HTTP”.
· Bypass GW: This option is enabled by default, verify when checked that the
gateway settings set are bypassed.
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Advanced
· Ignore Certificates: This option will allow you to ignore server
certificates checking when connecting to your RDP server. If you tick this
option, then the field “Accept Certificate on First Connect” is not available.
· Accept Certificate on First Connect: Accept certificate unconditionally on
first connect and deny on subsequent connections if the certificate does not
match.
· Use Hardware Graphics Rendering: Leave this box ticked to take advantage of
hardware graphics rendering on your Thin Client where available. This option
will offload the video decoding process to the graphical processing unit,
rather than in software. In some instances, it can increase performance.
· Connection Bar: Determines whether the connection bar appears at the top of
the VDI screen in the session.
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· Show Hostname: Enabling this will display the hostname of the Thin Client in
the “Launchpad”.
· Sound backend: Possible values are to use pulse or alsa sound
configurations. Select the sound system that is used on the client when
redirecting audio from the host machine to the client machine. The recommended
and default option is pulse, where certain audio devices are having issues,
alsa can be tried to determine if it offers a better user experience.
· Log Level: Sets the level of log information to be captured during the RDP
sessions and is set to “off” by default.
· Allow Password Change: When enabled, a padlock icon is added to the
launchpad to allow users to click on it to open ZeroWeb to access a self-
service password reset web portal.
· Password Change URL: Define the self-service password reset URL that is to
be used when the password reset icon is clicked on the launchpad.
· USB redirection(Experimental): Enable this option, at user discretion to
redirect your USB devices through to the VDI. Note: This is an experimental
feature and as such may produce differing results.
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Saving your settings
Once you’re comfortable with all the settings for your 10ZiG NOS-M client,
just click the “OK” button and you’ll be taken back to the Microsoft Remote
Desktop Authentication screen.
Editing your connection settings
If you need to edit your connection settings again, then click the “Gear” icon
in the bottom left of the “Login” screen as shown by the “red arrow” below.
You’ll be taken back into the “Control Panel”, where you can click the
“Microsoft Remote Desktop” icon in the top left and then make changes as
outlined in the previous sections of this guide.
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Azure Virtual Desktop Connection setting examples
Here are some examples of how to setup your “Microsoft Remote Desktop
Authentication” login screen. Inside the “Control Panel”, click on “Microsoft
Remote Desktop” icon, and then the “General” option in the left menu. Tick the
“Use credentials” box and key in the “Username”, “Password” and “Domain”
fields.
Go into the “Azure Virtual Desktop” menu option, scroll down, and tick the
“ReadOnly Domain” box.
Finally, click on the “Advanced” menu option, tick “Show Hostname” and then
“Allow Password Change” boxes. Click “OK” to save the changes.
Close the “Control Panel” as below.
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Your login screen should now look something like below. Notice that the
“Password Change” icon is present, the terminal hostname is displayed on the
top bar and the domain field is “Read Only”, indicated by the red arrows.
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Control Panel Settings
We mentioned how to access the Control Panel earlier on in this guide in the
section named “Access to the Control Panel”, click the link to the left to
jump back to that section. As a reminder, just look out for and click the
“Gear” icon and you’ll be taken into “Control Panel”, where you have the
ability to further customize your 10ZiG Thin Client’s “Application”, “Hardware
and “System” settings.
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Applications
Connection Manager
The Connection Manager allows you to create and customize your own connection
types. The Connection Manager can also be launched from the rightclick context
menu and taskbar in “Full Desktop” mode and runs by default as the controlling
window in WBT(Windows Based Terminal) mode. Currently supported connection
types are listed below and include “Chrome”, “Citrix”, “Firefox”, “Microsoft
Remote Desktop”, “Parallels RDP Client”, “Shell Script”, “Teradici PCoIP
Client”, “TN5250e Emulator”, “VMware”, “VNC Launcher”, “VNC Viewer” and “VT
xterm Terminal Emulator(PUTTY)”
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Creating a New Connection using the Connection Manager Click on the
“Connection Manager” inside the Control Panel in in “Full Desktop” mode or
from inside the “Connection Manager” in “WBT” mode. Click “New” and then on
the “New Connection” screen, highlight your desired connection type and click
“OK” or just double-click it.
The example above shows selecting a “Firefox” browser connection type to start
the setup process for.
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Saving your settings Once you have completed your connection setup and you’re
happy with the contents, then simply click “Save” in the bottom right of the
dialog box or click “Cancel” to exit the dialog without saving.
Editing your Connection settings If you’re operating in “Full Desktop” or
“WBT” mode, editing your settings is the same. You just need to right click on
the icon, whether it’s on the desktop or inside the “Connection Manager” and
then select “Edit” from the drop-down menu. Once you have finished editing the
settings, just click “Save”.
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Startup options for your Connections in Kiosk Mode If you run your Thin Client
desktop in “Kiosk” mode, you have to set one of your connections to be the
default connection that starts up at boot and also set “Enable connection
autostart” so that the connection restarts each time you close it.
Deleting your Connection settings If you want to delete the connection
altogether, you just need to right click on the icon, whether it’s on the
desktop or inside the “Connection Manager” and then select “Delete” from the
dropdown menu.
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Citrix Logger
Citrix Logger allows you to fully customize the amount of log information stored when launching and running your Citrix connection sessions. The log output path is set to /var/log/citrix/ICAClient.log by default and can be changed to suit your particular requirements.
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ICA Global Settings
This area controls global settings for ICA sessions. This assists in setting some of the standard settings for ICA clients to enable the same display settings, devices, hot-keys, servers and firewall and proxy settings. Inside the ICA Global Settings dialog box, click on any of the edit “wfclient.ini”, “modeule.ini” or “All_Regions.ini” to change the settings specific to those files and click “OK” inside the ini file editor to save your changes.
The example below shows editing of the “wfclient.ini”.
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Imprivata
If you intend to use your Thin Client with Imprivata OneSign, then this is where you’ll find the configuration screens needed to setup and fine tune it.
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New Connection
The “New Connection” option can be found inside the Control Panel in both
“WBT” and “Full Desktop” modes and on the taskbar “Full Desktop” mode. It also
appears as “Add Connection” in the right click context menu in “Full Desktop”
mode as shown below.
“Add Connection” from Right click context menu in “Full Desktop” mode.
“New Connection” from taskbar.
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Hardware
Display
The Display Settings window allows you to configure your screen resolution along with the refresh rate and the color quality. Other options here include rotation and support for multiple displays, if detected.
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Dual Monitors When multiple displays are detected, you will be given the
option to select “Main Display” for either HDMI1 or DP2(shown here), and
either to duplicate or extend these displays.
You can change the resolution of each monitor by selecting the resolution you
want for HDMI1 and DP2.
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If you choose to extend these displays you can choose the position of the 2nd
monitor to Right, Left, or Inverted depending on how you wish your display
topology to be.
Power Saving (DPMS) You can also enable Power Saving(DPMS) settings and also
specify how long, in minutes, to wait before going to standby mode.
Xrender is on by default, clicking “Disable Xrender”, will disable it, but may
affect webcam handling as a result. DRI Direct Rendering Infrastructure
version. Further information can be found here regarding DRI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Rendering_Infrastructure Enabling
“Restart Xorg on hotplug event” will force a refresh of the displays, to make
sure any hotplugs are detected correctly. Please note: This should only be
changed under advice from 10ZiG Support.
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Keyboard
Opening the Keyboard window displays the Layout Tab which allows you to select the keyboard model and country layout, as well as test keystroke output in the Test Keyboard: dialog box.
Layout
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Keyboard Typing Settings You can also set the keyboard character “Repeat
Rate” and “Repeat delay”, by moving the slider bars left and right. You also
have the ability to “Enable Numlock at startup” and use the “Caps Lock as
Shift Lock” by using the checkboxes, as shown below.
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Mouse
The Mouse window allows you to set the mouse speed, and acceleration settings.
You may also configure the mouse buttons for 3 button emulation or for left-
handed users.
If you have a touchpad connected to your Thin Client, then enabling this
option will allow you access its scrolling and detection options also.
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Network
Here you will find options to configure your network settings. If only one type of connection is available, it will be automatically set to Default. Highlighted in green below.
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Wireless Network Connection (Additional Hardware Opt.) Open the Network
Configuration applet by double clicking on the Network Icon, now click the
“Add” button and the Wireless Connection properties will open, and you’ll see
the “Scanning Wireless” message appear and then see a list of Broadcasted
SSIDs in your environment, choose the wireless access point you would like to
connect to and then click the “OK” button.
If you don’t see the SSID that matches your Wi-Fi network, just click the
“Refresh” button and it should appear in the list. Check with you network
administrator to make sure that it’s not hidden. If it is hidden, then just
click the “Add hidden network” button and you’ll be able to add it in there.
See below.
Once you’ve selected your network, then you’ll be prompted to type in your
wireless network password as below.
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If you highlight your network adapter in the list and then click “Edit”,
you’ll now see the network settings for your wireless device, and additional
configuration tabs for it. Inside the security tab choose your “Security Mode”
from the dropdown list and type in your passphrase (if applicable to your
security mode choice). If you uncheck the box next to passphrase your
passphrase will be shown in plain text.
From the “TCP/IP Properties” tab, you can set a static IP address if used in
your environment, and also use specific DNS server addresses.
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Using the “Hosts” tab you can define the host list for the wireless
connection. Just click in the box below “Define the host list. Format :
Ip_Address hostname” and start typing the IP address, followed by its
hostname.
If you click on the “Advanced” tab, you’ll be able to set the “Speed and
Duplex”, “MTU” and “802.1x Security Fallback” options for the adapter. If you
need any further information regarding setup of 802.1x and SCEP, 10ZiG have a
document titled “SCEP setup v2”. Please contact your Technical Support team
and they’ll be happy to provide you with a copy of the guide.
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Printers
The Printers applet allows you to add a local or network printer and gives you the ability to fully configure it on your client endpoint.
Configuring Local USB Printer
Clicking “Add” inside the applet, will allow you to discover any printers, locally or on your network.
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Once you’ve found your printer, click “Forward” and its drivers will be
searched for and then installed locally on your endpoint. You then have
options to describe the device in more detail to suit your requirements as
below.
During the setup process, you have the option to “Print Test Page”.
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Once the printer is added, further options will become available for
configuration such as :Settings Policies Access Control Printer Options Job
Options Ink/Toner Level information
Once complete, your printer will show up in the list of configured devices on
your physical client endpoint.
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Configuring a Network Printer If adding a network printer, you can either
select the connection type from the “Network” Printer dropdown list or just
type in the device URI.
Choose the printer vendor from the list provided.
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Choose the appropriate drivers. Select Installable Options.
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Describe the printer. The network printer was added successfully.
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Smart Card Service This service allows you to Enable or Disable your Smart
Card Service and Reader Device. Unless you require specific settings for your
readers, these settings can be left as default. Contact 10ZiG Support for
information on advanced setup of your reader.
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Sound
The Sound window allows you to control the speaker (Output:) and microphone (Input:) volumes and also lists the audio devices being used.
The output devices tab lists all connected output devices and gives you the
ability to select your preferred device, set the volume and test its output by
clicking the “Play” button.
The input devices tab lists all available input devices and lets you select
your preferred device for input. This example below displays the integrated
microphone of the C505 HD Webcam.
You also have the ability to configure options such as disabling the onboard speaker if you’re using external speakers and also suspend these devices to save power if the client device is idle.
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Touch Screen If you have a touch screen attached to your Thin Client, then it
will appear inside this dialog under the “Touchscreen Device” heading. You
also have the option to autostart the onscreen keyboard and also set it to
remain on top of other desktop items.
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USB Devices USB Devices for VMware and Citrix can be controlled here. Looking
at the screenshot below, you can see a list of categorized device classes
listed at the top of the grid and individually attached devices can be seen
towards the bottom. You can include or exclude whole groups of classed devices
from being passed to
the VDI and also include, exclude, or set individual devices to default. If
you set the individual device to default, then it will inherit the state of
its parent class above. Using the example below, with 2 “Mass Storage” devices
attached, we might want to include the whole of the “Mass Storage” device
class to be passed to the VDI but then set the “Kingston Technology
DataTraveler” to be excluded and leave the “SanDisk” device as default.
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If we then launch a VMware Horizon session, we should see only the “SanDisk”
inside the Horizon “toolbar” and inside Windows “File Explorer”, as it would
have inherited the “include” status of its parent class “Mass Storage”. The
“Kingston” device however is not available, as expected.
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System
Auto Shutdown
Auto Shutdown allows you to set a local time to automatically shut down the client. Tick the “Enable” box and then select a time to shut down with the scroll arrows. To reboot instead of shutting down and powering off, just tick “Reboot the unit”. The example below, reboots the device each day at 03:00 hours(3am).
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Certificates The Certificates applet opens the Certificate Manager and allows
administrators to delete or show the certificates that are currently installed
on your NOS Unit.
Importing Certificates You can import Certificates to your units two ways, via
USB or the 10ZiG Manager. In Security Settings click “Enable Install from USB”
and click “SAVE” if you intend to import certificates locally from USB
storage.
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Importing a Certificate from a USB storage device To import a certificate,
insert a USB drive (Formatted to FAT32) into the unit that contains the
certificate file. You will see the list of certificates displayed on screen,
simply click any that you wish to import and then click “Install”, as below.
You should see the “Installing certificates” dialog box and then you’ll be
returned to the “USB Installer” dialog box.
Once the certificates have been installed successfully, close the “USB
Installer” dialog box, go into the “Control Panel” and click on the
“Certificates” icon under the “System” heading and you’ll see the newly
imported certificate inside there.
If you highlight the certificate and then click “Verify”, the certificate will
be checked for its validity and a dialog box will be displayed to indicate
this.
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Importing a Certificate from the 10ZiG Manager Web Console Just as you can
import certificates locally on the 10ZiG NOS Thin Client, you can also import
them remotely, by using the “10ZiG Manager Web Console”. Open the “10ZiG
Manager Web Console”, highlight the Thin client that you wish to update
certificates for, right click and select “Configuration” and “Retrieve”.
Once retrieved, go in the “Configuration” menu again and select “Edit” this
time. Once displayed, double-click the “Certificates” icon under the “System”
heading as shown below.
Once the “Certificates” dialog box opens, notice the already installed
certificate that we imported locally on the 10ZiG Thin Client earlier. Click
“Import” to locate a new certificate that will be saved on the “10ZiG Manager
Server” and sent with the next configuration download to the client.
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When the “Import Certificate” dialog box appears, just click the “Select
Certificate File” button, navigate to the certificate file you wish to import
and then click “Open”.
Once the “Import Certificate” dialog show the correct certificate name, just
click “Import” and you’ll see the newly imported certificate displayed
alongside the original one added locally via USB earlier.
Now that we’ve added a new certificate to the configuration, we need to send
it back down to the 10ZiG Thin Client and then check that it got there
successfully. Whilst still inside the configuration screen for this client,
click the “Send” button in the top right of the dialog box and wait for the
successful “Send client configuration” message to appear in the “Task Status”
window of the Web Console.
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On the 10ZiG Thin Client again, if we open “Certificates” inside the “Control
Panel”, we can see that our recently transmitted configuration successfully
imported the certificate named “10ZiGTest-Certifictae-2” and if we highlight
it and click “Verify”, it checks out successfully as expected.
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Time & Date The Date and Time applet allows administrators to set the current
time and date, time zone and if an NTP time server will be used.
The time server field allows you to sync your unit with an NTP server either
internal or external. (Note: you must have internet access to use an external
time server). You can also get access to the “Time and Date” settings via the
NOS-V, NOS-C and NOS-M “Authentication” login boxes, by clicking the “Clock”
icon as shown below indicated by the “red arrow”.
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Secure Agent
10ZiG Secure Agent allows you to use our Secure Connector technology to manage
your devices. By default, the 10ZiG Secure Agent is enabled, but does not
contain any address or port information. If you have a DNS SRV record
configured to point to your 10ZiG Manager Server, then this will connect
automatically to it. Alternatively, simply fill in the server and port
information and click the “SAVE” button, and the Secure Agent will check in
with the 10ZiG Manager.
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Desktop
The Desktop applet was mentioned at the beginning of this guide in the section called “The Flexible PeakOS Desktop”, as it is fundamental to the initial setup of your Thin Client. Click this link to jump back to that section.
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System Logs Selecting a log file from the left hand menu will enable you to
view it in the right window. If you wish to send your collated logs to a 10ZiG
support technician, you have two ways of doing this, you can either write them
to an attached USB device for use later or retrieve them using the “10ZiG
Manager Web Console”. If you have already logged a call with technical support
and have a call reference, then you can enter that in the “Call Number” field
in the bottom left of the screen.
Collecting Logs via a USB storage device Once you are viewing the log you
would like to send, select, tick either of the “System” or “Configuration” log
options and click the “Send” button and it will be saved to your USB storage.
Remember, if you “Send” to USB, always click the “Eject USB” button, to make
sure your logs are saved securely.
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Collecting Logs via the 10ZiG Manager Web Console Inside the Web Console,
right click on your Thin Client and click “Download Logs” from the drop-down
menu. When the dialog box appears, a default log filename is already completed
on the form, but if you prefer, just type in your own filename, and click
“OK”. Notice that the dialog states that the archive will be stored in the
“Image Store” on your 10ZiG Manager Server.
Once the logs have been uploaded, if you navigate to the “Image Store”, you’ll
see the recently created log file inside a sub-folder called “log_packages”,
matching the filename above.
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Network File System
The Network File System applet will allow you to create remote network file
share connections to your Thin Client. You have the option to mount a Windows
“CIFS” or Linux “NFS” type connection.
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Power
Inside the “Power Management” screen, you have the ability to decide what the
power button does when you depress it on your 10ZiG client. The options
available are, “Power Off”, “End Session”, “Suspend”, or “Do nothing”.
You also have the option to choose what to do if the device is idle for a
specific period of time. Setting the idle timer will then allow you to select
the “Idle Action”. These actions are the same as the “Power Button” actions
above.
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Security settings
Security Settings allows administrators to set a password to be able to modify
certain hardware settings. You can also enable installation from USB Mass
Storage for thumb drives or external USB drives. This is also where you can
enable the SSH Client option or disable webcam and microphone use.
There are two additional options on this screen, related to behavioral
configuration of the Mozilla “Firefox” browser. The first one is “Disable
Firefox optimizations” and ticking this option will disable some of the
background network chatter that Firefox creates when launched. It is
recommended to enable this option if you experience network issues due to
“boot storms” / “login storms” when all units are opening Firefox at the same
time. Otherwise, it is recommended to leave it unchecked by default. The other
“Firefox” configuration option is “Disable Firefox security/malware”. Only
enable this option to disable remaining Firefox background chatter options
which are generally used for security purposes. This option disables important
security features from Firefox such as: Malware protection, tracking
protection, and TLS/SSL certification revocation check. This option should
only be enabled on the advisory of a network administrator that has deemed it
necessarily safe and secure to disable this background chatter from Firefox.
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System Information Information The General option will allow administrators to
identify the product name, the firmware version, the applied template (if
any), and the name of the unit. The name can be easily changed by using the
Change Name button.
Packages Selecting Packages will show the currently installed Linux packages
on the Thin Client.
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Advanced The Advanced options allow you to view more detailed info about the
unit. Including CPU, HD size, RAM, Firmware and Kernel. You can also set the
unit back to factory defaults, as well as launch a Linux console screen.
Factory Default message
Console Screen
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VNC Service Here, you can edit the settings used to remotely connect to the
unit using VNC (Virtual Network Computing). “Start VNC Server” options include
“On Boot”, so that any VNC client can connect, “On Demand”, so only “Cloud
Manager” connections are allowed or “Disable”, so that no connections are
allowed. You can choose to show and accept or reject dialog to the user from
the client connection and auto-accept after a timeout period.
You also have the ability to set a password locally, that the client needs in
order to gain access to the 10ZiG Thin Client.
If you switch on the “Notify user when shadowing starts/stops” option, then your user will see the following notification messages when a shadow session starts and end respectively.
Start Shadowing
End Shadowing
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VPN Client
The VPN Client GUI runs on top of “OpenConnect”. OpenConnect is a crossplatform multi-protocol SSL VPN client which supports a number of VPN protocols as listed below.
· Cisco AnyConnect · Array Networks SSL VPN · Juniper SSL VPN · Pulse Connect
Secure · Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect SSL VPN · F5 Big-IP SSL VPN ·
Fortinet Fortigate SSL VPN
Contact your network or systems administrator if you need to set up this VPN
client.
VPN Client GUI Screens
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SideBar/TaskBar Enabling the SideBar/Taskbar gives you the ability see the
current windowed tasks running on your 10ZiG Thin Client. You have multiple
options available, including the type of bar, such as “full” length or
“minimal” sized bar. You can also choose where to position it on screen and if
you want it to display as icons, text, or both.
If you don’t always want visibility of it, then you have the option to “Auto
hide” when not required.
Using the settings in the example above, here is the “SideBar/TaskBar” being
displayed at the top of the screen, with the “Control Panel” task running.
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For more information, FAQs, and helpful hints, please browse to
https://www.10zig.com/resources/support_faq END OF DOCUMENT
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References
- Mission Critical Enterprise Software by Cloud Software Group - Cloud Software Group
- Thin and Zero Client Hardware & Software | 10ZiG
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- Direct Rendering Infrastructure - Wikipedia
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