Lantronix Understanding Spider KVM Firmware and Virtual Media Settings

7: Interfaces

Virtual Media Options

The operating system on the target computer must have a USB mass storage driver installed in order to use Virtual Media. As the BIOS on some systems does not always support mass storage emulation on the USB interface, the system default is to disable USB mass storage unless an image is loaded. This option may be unselected to use.

Field	Description
Disable USB Mass	Select the checkbox to disable USB mass storage if no image is loaded.
Storage	Selected by default. Clear the check box if an image is loaded.
Force read-only	Select to prevent the remote drive from writing to your local drive. Selected
connections	by default.
	Warning: Clearing the Force read-only connections check box may
	result in file system errors and data corruption because of drive
	caching when data is written back to the Redirected local drive.

1.Do one of the following:

a.Click Save to save settings.

b.Click Reset to Defaults to restore system defaults.

c.Click Reset to restore original settings.

Image on Windows Share

In this section of the page, you can enable the Spider device to access a CD-ROM image up to 4.7 GB on a Windows shared folder via SAMBA. The Spider device then makes that image accessible to the target computer by emulating a USB disk drive.

Note: Windows 2003 and Windows Vista do not support this feature.

Appropriate administrative permissions to access the host and file are needed, as well as the ability to see that computer over the network from the Spider device.

The connection remains mounted until the current user logs out or the Spider device is rebooted. Other client systems logging into the Spider device will see the active image in all Virtual Media pages.

To share a CD-ROM image, perform the following steps.

1. Enter the following: fields.

Field	Description
Share Host/IP	IP address of the host of the Windows shared folder.
Share Name	Name of the host of the Windows shared folder.
Image File with Path	Name and path to the CD-ROM image. The file must be structured as a CD-
	ROM image. The filename appears as the Active Image and the image is
	available to the target computer as a letter drive (e.g., F: ).
User Name (optional)	User name for accessing the host and file.
Password (optional)	Password for accessing the host and file.

2.Do one of the following:

a. To discard your changes, click Reset.

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