Access to Windows Applications under Linux and Sun Solaris
HOBLink UWT offers your enterprise an innovative solution that brings the benefits of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers (NT4,
Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003) to your UNIX platforms.
Attention Mac Users! -
HOBLink JWT is the ideal solution for connecting
your computer running a Mac OS to Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers (NT4,
Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003) HOBLink UWT is not optimized for
Mac OS's.
Product Highlights
The Advantages at
a Glance
Access to Windows applications from Sun Solaris
and Linux platforms
TCP/IP as network protocol, RDP 4, 5, 5.1 or 5.2 as communication
protocol
Load Balancing
Server-based computing in a heterogeneous network
environment
Seamless integration of UNIX and Windows environments
Leverages your existing network infrastructure
No additional components required on the Windows
Terminal Server (in the basic configuration)
Worldwide availability via LAN / WAN, dial-up lines, ISDN, xDSL and VPN
Reap the Benefits,
Protect Your Investment
As an RDP-based solution, HOBLink UWT gives you
unrestricted use of the entire range of Windows applications on the
Windows Terminal Server from your Linux, Sun Solaris or Mac OS X workstation.
Because all Windows applications are centrally installed and configured,
you can significantly reduce your total cost of ownership with HOBLink
UWT.
Security Plus
With HOBLink UWT you can encrypt all transmitted
data based on the cryptographic functionality of the Windows Terminal
Server. The following levels of data encryption are supported:
“Low” encryption of data from client to server
(RC4), 40-bit or 56-bit
“Medium” encoding of data from client to server
and vice versa, (RC4), 40-bit or 56-bit
“High”-level encryption from client to server
and vice versa, (RC4), 128-bit
Worldwide Availability
Connections via standard phone lines, WAN/LAN, VPN,
etc. are possible on the basis of TCP/IP, letting you leverage the
worldwide availability of the Internet and guarantee global access.
This makes HOBLink UWT an ideal solution for international enterprises
that need to connect to Windows applications anywhere in their extended
corporate network.
Keyboard Layouts
Besides supporting the English keyboard (US and
UK), HOBLink UWT includes support for a number of other languages,
e.g. German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese.
Load Balancing
Included standard with HOBLink UWT is a component
which provides integrated “load balancing.” The client sends a request
to every Windows Terminal Server and, depending on the configuration,
is automatically connected either to the first Terminal Server which
responds or to the server with the least load.
Overview of Key Features
Connection from Linux and Sun Solaris
Support for RDP4 and RDP5 protocols
Includes additional component for load balancing
Fully supports encryption of the Microsoft Windows
Terminal Server
TCP/IP as transport protocol
Copy & paste support
Real-time viewing of other client sessions (session
shadowing)
Printing to locally connected printers
Direct connection to an application (application
serving)
Client connection possible via LAN / WAN, dial-up lines, ISDN, xDSL and VPN
Audio (with Windows 2003 Server or Linux with
ALSA)
System Requirements
Windows Terminal Server
HOBLink UWT is compatible with:
Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 - Terminal Server
Edition
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server
and Datacenter Server with integrated Windows Terminal Services
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Client Platforms
Linux
HOBLink UWT has been successfully tested on Intel-based Linux distributions from
Suse, RedHat and Mandrake (kernel version 2.2.10 and higher)
Sun Solaris
HOBLink UWT requires Solaris 7 (SunOS 5.7) or Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8), or higher, on a SPARC system. Mac OS X
HOBLink UWT requires Mac OS X 10.1 or later, as well as an installed X
Server.
Thin Clients
HOBLink UWT has been specially optimized for thin clients. It has been
tested with the following thin clients:
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