IBM N2800e manual Understanding your NetVista Thin Client Express

Understanding your NetVista Thin Client Express

The IBM NetVista N2800e Thin Client Express offers a fast and simple way to access applications on the following platforms:

vWindows NT® Server 4.0

vWindows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition (TSE)

vWindows NT Workstation 4.0

vWindows® 2000 Server

vWindows 2000 Professional

vWindows 2000 Advanced Server

As both a hardware and a software solution, Thin Client Express includes essential Network Station™ Manager V2R1 functions on a pre-installed CompactFlash card.

Thin Client Express provides the usual thin-client benefits, such as a reduced total cost of ownership and the fast, flexible deployment of applications. Because it does not require a boot server, Thin Client Express also provides a quick start-up time.

Thin Client Express also includes a Setup Utility, and a Configuration Tool that provide the following:

vA streamlined configuration process

vLocal boot capabilities from a CompactFlash card

vA Netscape browser

v3270, 5250, and VTxx emulator sessions

vAn Independent Computing Architecture (ICA) client and ICA Remote Application Manager

vSeparate utility programs for flash update service and operations management

vA desktop with a Launch Bar or one or more full-screen applications

vAdvanced diagnostics

The IBM NetVista Thin Client Express Service Utility and IBM NetVista Thin Client Manager Operations Utility are management utilities that you can use to manage your workstations. These utilities run on Windows 2000 and Windows NT workstations, and are available to you, free of charge. You can download these utilities either from a compact disc (CD) or from the World Wide Web. For information on obtaining the CD (at no cost to you), visit the following uniform resource locator (URL):

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/netvista/thinclient/xpress.html

Click Express Utilities, located under the More Info heading.

If you are interested in downloading the utilities from the World Wide Web, refer to “Downloading the utilities from the NetVista Thin Client web site” on page 16 for more information.

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