X-ThinPro is a complicated product for integrating the Microsoft Windows and TCP/IP network environments. X-ThinPro is an inexpensive but effective way to transform a standard PC running under Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 95/98 or IBM OS/2 into a multi-finction terminal. Being based on the TCP/IP open standards, the package integrates a PC into an interoperable computer network. The network of dissimilar computers and operating systems becomes perfectly transparent to you. X-ThinPro enables on your PC's screen to work at once with several applications executed simultaneously on various network nodes. As a result, a heterogeneous network appears to you as a unified large computer system arranged directly on your desktop.
X-ThinPro is an integrated and powerful 32-bit software tool consisting of the following functional parts:
Telnet is a communications and terminal emulation program. It allows you to connect to and communicate with hosts that support the Telnet protocol, to initiate and control a remote login session. While you are using Telnet, you can:
- set some options for particular implementations of TelnetThe Telnet program can emulate XTERM, AT386, ANSI, VT52, VT100, VT125, VT220 and VT240 terminals for character-mode applications. Advanced users can edit the terminal capabilities description file to suit to the special environment.
By using the Keyboard Mapping option, you can load, change (re-define keys and create a new keyboard layout), and save any keyboard definition file.
FTP program is a client implementation of the File Transfer Protocol. It allows you to transfer both text and binary files between your PC and a remote computer running the server implementation of FTP. By using the FTP program, you can:
- set up parameters and modes for operationsWhile you are connected, you can perform a number of tasks (commands) on the FTP server, using various server's options.
TFTP program allows you to transfer both text and binary files between your PC and a remote computer running the server implementation of TFTP.
LPR is a network printing program that allows access to printers attached to remote computers on your network (via LPR, LPQ, LPRM). The computers must support the Berkeley Line Printer protocol. You can enter data required to get access to a remote printer (choose a target printer), specify job options (number of copies, titles and banner pages, file type) and print one or several files residing on your PC, view print jobs in the queue, remove jobs from the queue.
LPD is a Network Print Server (daemon) that allows access to printers (accessible at your computer) across TCP/IP network. The remote computers must have the LPR program that supports the Berkeley Line Printer protocol.
While using LPD, you can:
- change the Printer list and printer parameters (add/remove a network printer, change settings of network printers)You can test that the TCP/IP transport is installed and configured correctly by using the Ping utility. While running, Ping sends a sequence of data packets to the host with the time interval specified. When the connection between your PC and the host exists, PC will receive a response after every packet sent. If Ping finds the host or IP address, it will return the appropriate message.
Startup is a program for automating host access with using the REXEC or RSH protocol. By using the Startup program, you can:
- enter a single command and execute it on a hostStartup job is a task with a certain set of parameters (start method, login information, command line, settings). You can create a job (i.e. store current parameters under a certain name). A job may be launched by clicking on its icon.
NFS-Server is a network file server that supports the NFS protocol version 3. It has a multi-threaded code developed for the Win32 environment and is designed to work with the built-in MS Windows TCP/IP-32 protocol stack.
The main feature of the NFS-Server utility is to provide access to hard disk space and files residing on your PC to users working on other network nodes under different operating systems (with NFS client support and TCP/IP).
NFS-Server can be installed on any MS Windows 95/98/NT workstation to share your local drives and folders with other networked users, no matter which operating system they are running on their workstations. Only a NFS Client is required on that system for users to mount your disks as part of their system.
NFS Client is a program running under the MS Windows operating system in order to mount one or more shared network resources from one or more NFS Servers and to share access to files and directories with other PCs and UNIX users across the network. A shared network resource is any folder that the administrator makes available to be mounted and its subdirectories.
NFS Client does not turn your PC into a fully qualified file server. Instead, it allows a simple access to folders and files for a limited number of systems on the network.
NFS Client has a multi-threaded code developed for the Win32 environment and is designed to work with the built-in MS Windows TCP/IP-32 protocol stack.
NFS Client can be installed on any MS Windows 95/98/NT workstation to enable your workstation to benefit from networks NFS-Server services. With the help of NFS Client you can mount disks and folders from network, no matter under which operating system they reside, and make them as part of your familiar local desktop environment.
The XServer is a program that emulates the X terminal on your PC. The X-ThinPro's XServer is the XServer implementation of the X11 R6 release of the X Window System. The XServer can run one or more X Window based client applications (X clients) that are resident on a host computer. The host can be any computer that supports the X protocol. X client applications can be displayed in individual windows, or as multiple windows contained in a single XServer's window, or in a full-screen mode outside the Microsoft Windows graphical environment. The first two methods include functions to copy and paste data between X clients and the Microsoft Windows clipboard.
You may use your familiar host based X fonts via X-ThinPro's X Font Server. Fonts installed on your system can be used by any graphical X Window System application. Font Server is started automatically with your graphical environment, and all fonts installed on your system are automatically available to all of your X Window System applications. Applications request character information from the Font Server, which can return data in various formats, ensuring high quality display of a variety of font styles and sizes. Font Server provides rasterized fonts with outline data to all X applications. It also provides wide range of local X fonts (standard font sets supplied by MIT along with X11 R6), Font Compiler to compile Microsoft Windows fonts, and Microsoft Windows fonts support in X-sessions.
