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THIS DOCUMENT IS A GUIDLINE FOR A NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR PROVIDED BY WINDWARD AS A GUIDELINE TO SETUP STABLE WINDWARD ENVIROMENT IN TERMINAL SERVICES WINDWARD IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR NETWORK SETUP

1: Each terminal needs to have their own unique login on the server. If each user has their own specific terminal at the remote location, then using their proper name would be sufficient. If multiple users are using a specific terminal, setup users such as: REMOTE-STN1, REMOTE-STN2, etc.

2: For each of the individual TS Login accounts, one will need to set the parameters for the System Five shortcut on each accounts desktop so that they are unique (the main thing we are concerned about here is the station ID). we set parameters on the System Five shortcut so that the correct station ID is used.

/smallsplash - displays a small-splash screen upon loading System Five. Not necessary, but will speed up the login process over the remote connection

/forcemachine=X - user is not able to change the terminal ID at the login screen for System Five**

The Start In parameter, f:\data\windward - This forces the user to only login to that particular data set. Can be useful if there are multiple data sets which have been linked in System Five, i.e. training data, etc.

You can see the need to have each machine setup as a user on the TS as they have their own set of desktop icons which we add variables.

Alternate setups can be used as long as the end product is each physical machine logging into TS has its own forced terminal number to system5 which we set in the above setup using the forcmachine=X on the REMOTE-STNx’s Desktop. Two alternatives:

1) If you currently run a roaming profile TS with specific setup you consider using scripting user/group profiles that makes the desktop icon with a forcemachine parameter

THIS IS ONLY AN EXAMPLE AND IS UP TO YOU TO HAVE YOUR ADMINISTRATOR CREATE THE PROPER SCRIPT WE DO NOT WORK ON NETWORK CUSTOMIZATION

You should be able to use the wscript.network object and get the computername.

set objNetwork=CreateObject(“wscript.network”) if objNetwork.computername=“TERMINAL” then 'map drives or whatever end if

2) using the “remote desktop connection” to launch the software with the proper parameters

setup a remote desktop icon on each physical machines desktop that opens TS specificly launching windward with the forcemachine option

terminal_services_practices.1204833829.txt.gz · Last modified: 2008/03/06 12:03 (16 years ago) (external edit)