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Configure Connection Settings Dialog Box for VT

How do I get to this dialog box?
  1. Open a session document.

  2. Open the Settings window.

    The steps depend on your user interface mode.

    User Interface Mode Steps
    Ribbon or Reflection Browser With a session open in Reflection, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click .
    TouchUx Tap the Gear icon and then select Document Settings.
  3. Under Host Connection, click Configure Connection Settings.

From this dialog box, you can specify the settings for a VT connection.

Connection Method

Setting Description
Network Configure a host connection through a network.
Serial Port Configure a host connection through a serial port on your PC.
Modem Configure a host connection through a modem. The modem must first be configured in Windows.

Network

These options are available only when you have selected Network under Connection Method.

Network Connection Type

Setting Description
Telnet Select to use your PC as a virtual terminal over a TCP/IP connection. When Telnet is the selected protocol, you can configure secure connections using SSL/TLS.
Secure Shell Select for secure, encrypted communications between a trusted host and your PC over an insecure network. When you select Secure Shell, all connections between your PC and the remote host(s) are encrypted, protecting the data sent between these machines.
Rlogin Select to use your PC as a virtual terminal over a TCP/IP connection.

Options

Setting Description
Host name/IP address Identify the host to which you will connect. Type the host name, alias, or numeric IP address.

Note: Both IPv4 addresses (in the form 127.0.0.1) and IPv6 addresses (in the form 2001:0db8:3c4d:0015:0000:0000:abcd:ef12) are accepted.
User name Type a name that identifies you or your PC to the host. This option is enabled only for Secure Shell or Rlogin connections.
SSH configuration scheme Type a descriptive name to label these connection settings, making them available for use with other Secure Shell sessions. If you leave this field blank, and make changes to any connection settings, Reflection saves the configuration scheme using the value from the Host name/IP address field.
Handle SSH User authentication in terminal window For Secure Shell connections, display user name and password prompts in the terminal window instead of in a dialog box.
Security Secure data communications with Secure Shell, SOCKS, or SSL/TLS.
More Settings Configure additional settings.

Serial Port

These options are available only when you have selected Serial Port under Connection Method.

Setting Description
Serial port to use Reflection detects available serial ports on your PC and displays them here.
Parity Set the parity for data transmission to and from the serial device on this port. This setting determines whether a parity bit is generated for each character transmitted. Parity is used to detect errors in data transmission; the number preceding the slash indicates the number of data bits sent.

To use the multinational character set or 8-bit controls, Parity must be set to one of the values that offers 8-bit controls. If your communications link generates parity, and you set Parity to 8/None, multinational characters appear on your screen. In this case, set Parity to either 8/Even or 8/Odd.
Baud Set the rate at which Reflection transmits and receives data through the selected serial port. The baud rate setting must match the baud rate of your direct connection.
More Settings Configure additional settings.

Modem

These options are available only when you have selected Modem under Connection Method.

Setting Description
Modem to use Reflection detects modems configured on your PC and displays them here.
Phone number Type the phone number you want the modem to dial when connecting. The number must adhere to the rules of your modem.
Use country code and city code Select this option if you want to specify a country code and city code (or area code) for the number you are dialing. Clear this option if you do not want to use the Country code, City code, and Current location options.
Country code Type the country code for the country you are calling.
City code Type the city code or area code for the location you are calling.
Current location Select the previously defined location from which you are calling. These locations are defined from the Dialing Properties dialog box.
Dialing Properties Add, modify, or remove a location from the Current location list.
More Settings Configure additional settings.

Host Connection Options

Setting Description
Automatically connect to the host Select to establish a host connection as soon as the associated session document is opened.
Allow exit while connected Select to allow closing the workspace when a session is connected to a host.
When connection is terminated Specify options for reconnecting after any disconnection that is not initiated from Reflection.

- Reconnect automatically: specifies to attempt to reestablish the connection.

- Prompt for reconnection: specifies to prompt whether to attempt to reestablish the connection. (When No is selected, the session is left open and disconnected.)

- Leave disconnected: specifies to leave the session disconnected with the session open.

- Close session automatically specifies to close the session.

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