Terminal Server

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The terminal server is a program that gives you access to a Windows computer Desktop. This allows you to use some software that you don't have in your own computer (Materials Lab, Above Acrobat Professional, SciFinder, Microsoft products, Gauss View, Gaussian, and others).

To have access into it you will need to have an account (ask Martin for one)

How to get to the terminal server:

from a Linux PC

you need to use the rdesktop. rdesktop is a client for Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), used in a number of Microsoft products including Windows NT Terminal Server, Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server. It works with the commands:

rdesktop [options] server[:port]

The server is 10.0.7.248, the terminal server. There are different options that you can use according to your needs.

You might use:

rdesktop -g1024x768 -kes -b 10.0.7.248:3389 &

or you may prefer to have access to the files in your PC:

rdesktop -b 10.0.7.248 -g 90% -k es -r disk:name=/home/username/

-b: Force the server to send screen updates as bitmaps rather than using higher-level drawing operations. -g: Desktop geometry (WxH). If geometry is the special word "workarea" -k: Keyboard layout to emulate (e.g en-us, en-gb, de, fr, sv ) -r disk: Redirects a path to the share (your machine), a directory called name will appear in "your computer" If using -u username, would connect to the terminal server with such username. 10.0.7.248:3389, are IP:port

from a Windows PC:

* connect to remote desktop (Todos los programas -> Accesorios -> Comunicaciones -> Conexión a Escritorio Remoto)
* enter the IP of the Terminal Server: 10.0.7.248:3389

from outside ICIQ

You can also connect to the Terminal Server from outside ICIQ, check the Connecting from Outside page.

Programs on the Terminal Server

• Materials Lab

• Materials Studio

• Adobe Acrobat Professional Allows you to create pdf files.

• SciFinder

• Pearson's Crystal Data

• Microsoft products: Microsoft Office, ChemOffice, ChemBioOffice, EndNote...

• Gauss View

• Gaussian

• Mathematica

• MathLM

• MATLAB

• Maple

• Chemcraft

• Cygwin

and others

How to ...

• Change the language of the PC: The Default language into terminal Server is EN, but into in the toolbar you have a box,there you can change your language, you only have to click and select (or add) your language to do your own things.

• Move files between different PC's: to move files from kimik or your PC to the terminal server, you may want to use the WinSCP.

If you use the -r disk:name=/home/username/ option, you will be able to have access to your linux PC from the terminal server.