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Using Change Quick Setup

Change Quick Setup allows you to change the parameters that affect basic terminal operations, a subset of the parameters in Change Setup Parameters and Change User Preferences.

By default, you access Change Quick Setup through the Console, after the NCD terminal has been booted (Setup -> Change Quick Setup). For other ways to display and start local clients and information about disabling local clients, see the NCDware System Administrator's Guide for UNIX Systems.

Components of the Change Quick Setup Window

Change Quick Setup contains a series of hide boxes providing access to fields that correspond to remote configuration parameters.

Change Quick Setup has a menu bar with a File menu and a Sections menu, a messages area, and several buttons:

Contents of the Change Quick Setup Hide Boxes

The following sections describe the contents of the Change Quick Setup hide boxes.

The tables in each section include brief descriptions of the fields and the names of the corresponding remote configuration parameters. For the following information about parameters, see the Remote Configuration Quick Reference:

Booting Parameters

The Booting hide box contains parameters that affect the terminal's booting process.

Booting Field
Description
Corresponding Parameter
Boot From Booting method; that is, the protocol used for booting or whether the terminal boots locally boot-desired-source
Boot Host IP Address IP address of the boot server boot-tcpip-desired-server

Files Parameters

The Files hide box contains parameters that affect how the terminal accesses files.

Files Field
Description
Corresponding Parameter
File Service Protocol Protocol for file exchange with the primary initial file server file-initial-protocol-1
File Server Address Address of the primary initial file server file-initial-server-1
Backup File Service Protocol Protocol for file exchange with the secondary initial file server file-initial-protocol-2
Backup File Server Address Address of the secondary initial file server file-initial-server-2
Config File Configuration file downloaded by the terminal config-default-file
UNIX Config Directory Directory containing the configuration file downloaded by the terminal config-unix-directory
VMS Config Directory Directory containing the configuration file downloaded by the terminal from a VMS host config-vms-directory
Loadable Modules Directory Directory that contains the loadable X server modules modules-directory
Name Type for Initial TFTP servers Type of filenames (UNIX or VMS) sent via TFTP from the initial file servers file-name-type-for-initial-tftp-servers
Extended File Diagnostics Generates more detailed diagnostic messages about file services file-extended-diagnostics

Fonts Parameters

The Fonts hide box defines the default font path.

Fonts Field
Description
Corresponding Parameter
Default Font Path at Reset Default directories that the terminal searches for fonts xserver-default-font-path

Licenses Parameters

The Licenses hide box contains parameters that affect licensed features.

Licenses Field
Description
Corresponding Parameter
License Key License key for the enabled software features that require a license unit-license-key
Licensed Features Features licensed on the terminal unit-licensed-features

Network Parameters

The Network hide box contains parameters that set network addresses and specify hosts that provide services to the terminal. Some of the fields shown below do not appear in the XRemote X server.

Network Field
Description
Corresponding Parameter
Terminal IP Address At Next Boot Terminal's IP address the next time it boots ip-address-at-next-boot
Gateway IP Address Primary default gateway host ip-initial-default-gateway-1
Subnet Mask Subnet mask for this network segment ip-subnet-mask
Broadcast IP Address Broadcast address ip-broadcast-address
Use Address Discovery Addresses supplied by BOOTP/DHCP or RARP are used by the terminal ip-use-address-discovery
TCP/IP Name Service Protocol Name service protocol for contacting the name servers tcpip-name-server-protocol
TCP/IP Name Servers List of name server hosts tcpip-name-servers
NCDnet Address Current NCDnet address (for terminals on a DECnet network) ncdnet-address
NCDnet Address at Next Boot NCDnet address for the terminal the next time it boots ncdnet-address-at-next-boot
NCDnet Router Address Default router for terminals on a DECnet network ncdnet-default-router
NCDnet Name Servers List of name server hosts for terminals on a DECnet network ncdnet-name-servers

Session Parameters

The Session hide box contains parameters that start the initial local clients for the user's session.

Session Field
Description
Corresponding Parameter
X Session XDM/DECwindows Hostname Login host for the XDM login banner exec-startup-commands
Terminal Session Type Type of terminal emulation for users logging in through a terminal emulator
XRemote Session Start Window Manager Starts the window manager when a user logs in through XRemote


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