NComputing!L300!and!L350!User!Manual!!
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Device!Setup!-!The!“Connection!Settings”!Tab!
The!Connection!Settings!tab!allows!administrators!to!determine!exactly!how!the!client!goes!about!
looking!fo r !an d !c on n e ct in g!t o !av aila b le !h os ts .!T h e!c lie nt !ca n !b e!p r es et !to !c on n e ct !to !s pe c ific!s e rve r!
groups!or!configured!to!search!for!avaliable!hosts!within!its!network.!
A!“vSpace!Server!group”!is!a!collection!of!one!or!more!individual!vSpace!Server!specified!by!a!name!that!
is!currently!defined!from!inside!each!L300!or!L350!device’s!setup!interface.!!
If!a!server!g r o u p !co n t a in s!o n ly !o n e !n ame!(or!IP!a d d re s s),!t h en !t h e !L300!or!L350!device!attempts!to!
connect!to!that!server!until!successful!or!until!the!device!is!reset.!If!the!se rv e r!g ro u p !c o n ta in s !m ore!than !
one!name!(or!IP!address),!the!device!tries!to!connect!to!the!first!serve r!in!the!list,!and !if!no!suc cess ful!
connection!is!made,!it!attempts!to!connect!to!the!second!server!in!the!list!(i.e.,!the!device!does!an!“auto!
failover”!to!the!next!server).!If!the!device!does!not!successfully!connect!to!the!second!server!in!the!list,!
the!it!attempts!to!connect!to!the!third!device!in!the!list,!etc.!When!the!L300!or!L350!reaches!th e!en d!o f!
the!list,!it!starts!again!at!the!beginn ing!o f!the!“s erve r!grou p” !and !con tinu es!u ntil!a!con ne ction !is!ma de !or!
until!the!device!is!reset.!(To!allow!for!unusual!requirements!or!server!weighting!algorithms,!an!individual!
server!name!or!IP!address!may!exist!in!multiple!places!in!the!list.)!
Whenever!an!L300!or!L350!disconnects!from!a!session,!autoconnect!(if!set)!begins!at!the!top!of!the!
connection!cycle.!The!device!does!not!keep!track!of!the!last!server!to!which!it!successfully!connected.!
Issuing!a !d e vic e !re se t!c o mmand !fr o m !t h e !NC-Console!will!also!cause!the!autoconnect!processing!to!
restart!at!the!top!of!the!cycle.!
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