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vii Preface The Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide provides an introduction to using Sun Secure Global Desktop software (SGD). The manual provides information on howyou can use SGD to run applications. This document is intended for both new andexisting users of SGD. How This Book Is Organized ...

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1 C H A P T E R 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop Sun Secure Global Desktop software (SGD) provides you with secure, remote accessto desktop applications running on application servers. You can be writing a report on a computer in the office, administering UNIX ® platform servers on your PC at home,...

2 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 The following table describes the user names and passwords you might requirewhen using SGD. ▼ How to Log In to SGD Before you log in to SGD, ensure that the following requirements are met: ■ JavaScript™ software is enabled in your browser ■ Jav...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 5 FIGURE 1-4 Certificate Details Dialog Box a. Check that the Validity and Subject fields are correct. b. Click Close. The Initial Connection dialog box is redisplayed. 5. If the certificate details are correct, click Yes to agree to the connection. Once you...

6 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 FIGURE 1-6 Potentially Unsafe Connection Message If you see a Potentially Unsafe Connection message, do the following. ▼ How To Deal With a Potentially Unsafe ConnectionMessage 1. Click the View Certificate button and make a note of the certifi...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 7 FIGURE 1-7 SGD Webtop The different areas of the webtop are described in the following sections. Menu Bar This area of the webtop includes buttons for logging out and for displaying help anddiagnostics information. See “Logging Out” on page 27 for more inf...

8 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 From the webtop, you can display a page containing diagnostics information. This isuseful if you need to contact Support. Click the Info button on your webtop and then click the Detailed Diagnostics link in the Information area. Applications Ar...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 9 FIGURE 1-8 User Name Displayed on the Webtop Toolbar If the toolbar says you are logged in as “Guest user” then you either logged inwithout typing a user name and password, known as an anonymous login, or youare using a webtop that is shared with other use...

10 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 You do not have to exit an application before starting another. Just click another link. SGD Administrators configure how the applications display. Note – You cannot start a Windows application using a different Windows domain name. Ask an SGD...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 11 ■ Make sure you supplied the correct user name and password for the applicationserver. If SGD does not prompt you for this information, hold down the Shift keyand click the link to force the prompt to appear. ■ Log out of SGD and exit your browser, then r...

12 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 ■ Click the Resume All link to resume all suspended applications ■ Click the Cancel All link to end all running or suspended applications FIGURE 1-12 Links for Managing All Application Sessions Resumability Settings for Applications To see if ...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 13 However, if the SGD Client exits unexpectedly, or if you close down the SGD Client,your ability to resume an application depends upon how your SGD Administratorconfigured the application and how you logged in to SGD. ■ If an application is configured to b...

14 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 Sun Secure Global Desktop Software: Copied data not available to this application For character applications , click with the right mouse button, and then click Copy or Paste as appropriate. To select a column of text, hold down the Shift key ...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 15 ■ To simulate a right mouse button click, press Command while clicking the mouse button Printing SGD enables you to print from your applications to a printer attached to yourcomputer. Usually, you can choose the printer you want to print to. However, for ...

16 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 To manage print jobs individually, click the List All Jobs button. The webtopdisplays a list of all the print jobs in the queue, along with information about the job.For example, the number of copies and the printer to use. If you have paused ...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 17 You can also print by specifying the universal naming convention (UNC) name of anetwork printer that is accessible from the computer. To use a UNC name, you mustenclose the printer name in quotes and escape backslashes as appropriate for theshell. For exa...

18 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 FIGURE 1-15 Microsoft Windows Print Dialog Box, With an SGD Client Printer Selected See “Configuring Your Client Printers” on page 37 for more information on how you can configure your own client printers. Printing from Windows Applications to...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 19 On Microsoft Windows computers, the Universal PDF Printer printer displays theprint job as a PDF file in Adobe Reader, which then prints the PDF file to yourdefault printer. The Universal PDF Viewer printer displays the print job as a PDF filein Adobe Rea...

20 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 Printing Troubleshooting If you print from an application and the output does not appear, check thefollowing. If none of the above solves your printing problem, contact your SGD Administrator. Changing Your Settings You can configure the follo...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 21 Client Settings Each time the SGD Client starts it uses a profile. A profile is a group of configurationsettings that control the SGD Client. The settings in a profile define the following: ■ How the SGD Client connects to an SGD server. For example, the ...

22 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 ▼ How To Create a Group 1. On the webtop, click the Edit button. 2. Click the Edit Groups tab. 3. Click the Add New Group button. Type a name for the group. In Choose Your Content, select the check boxes for the applications anddocuments you w...

24 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 1. Start a browser and go to the SGD login URL. The SGD login URL is at http://s erver.example.com /sgd , where server.example.com is the name of the SGD server. 2. Log in and display a webtop. 3. Edit your profile as follows. a. Click the Edi...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 25 FIGURE 1-19 Logging In Using the Desktop Start or Launch Menu Note – If you log in to more than one SGD server, there is a Login link for each server in the Start or Launch Menu. Once you have logged in to SGD, the Start or Launch Menu is updated with the...

26 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 Unlike the webtop, you cannot suspend and resume individual applications.Instead, when you log out of SGD, your running applications are either suspendedor ended, depending on their resumability settings. See “Suspending and Resuming Applicati...

Chapter 1 Using Sun Secure Global Desktop 27 Note – You cannot suspend or resume your My Desktop application. You must log out of the desktop application as normal. Logging Out The log out procedure varies, depending on whether you are using the SGD webtopor you are using SGD from the desktop Start ...

29 A P P E N D I X A Installing the SGD Client Manually To use Sun Secure Global Desktop (SGD) with a browser that does not have Javatechnology enabled, you must download the SGD Client manually and install it onyour computer. Installing the SGD Client The SGD Client is usually installed automatical...

Appendix A Installing the SGD Client Manually 33 5. Change to the temporary directory and extract the tar file. 6. Install the SGD Client. Follow the instructions on the screen. Logging In Using the SGD Client On UNIX and Linux platforms, you start the SGD Client with the ttatcc command. On Microsof...

35 A P P E N D I X B Advanced Configuration This appendix includes configuration information for advanced users of Sun SecureGlobal Desktop (SGD). The following advanced configuration topics are described: ■ “Client Settings” on page 35 ■ “Printing” on page 37 ■ “Accessing the Drives on Your Compute...

36 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 Changing the Login Page URL You use the Login URL setting to specify the location of the login page on the SGDserver. This client setting applies when you are logging in to SGD from the desktop Start orLaunch Menu. The Login URL is usually htt...

Appendix B Advanced Configuration 37 Printing If you are using a UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X computer, you can override the settingsmade by the SGD Administrator and configure printers on the computer. Configuring Your Client Printers Typically, your SGD Administrator configures the available client pr...

38 Sun Secure Global Desktop 4.5 User Guide • April 2009 Accessing the Drives on Your Computer Your SGD Administrator configures whether you can access the drives on yourcomputer from applications running through SGD. If you are using a UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X platform computer, by default yourhome...

39 A P P E N D I X C Profile Settings This appendix describes the settings you can configure in a profile. Description of Profile Settings Each time the SGD Client starts it uses a profile . A profile is a group of configuration settings that control the SGD Client. The following table lists the set...

Appendix C Profile Settings 41 Configuring Integrated Mode Operation The following settings on the Client Settings tab are used for configuring Integratedmode operation of SGD: ■ Connect on System Login ■ Automatic Client Login ■ Add Applications to Start Menu See “Using SGD From Your Desktop Start ...

47 Index A Alternative PDF Viewer, specifying, 36anonymous users closing the browser, 13webtop username, 9 Apple Macintosh mouse, single-button, 15applications adding to the webtop, 8authentication, 14cancelling, 11copying and pasting between, 14error messages, 11groups, 21number of instances, 10pri...