Dell Wyse ThinOS Version 8.5 Administrator’s Guide

Login dialog box features

While the Login dialog box allows you to log on to the server, it also allows you to:

• Obtain system information.
• Access Admin Mode to configure thin client settings.
• Change or reset your own password, and unlock your account.
• Open the Shutdown dialog box by using CTRL+ALT+DELETE.

In the Login dialog box, use the following guidelines:

• System Information—Click the Sys Info button to open the System Information dialog box. You can view the thin client system information such as System Version, IP Address, information on devices connected to your thin client, event logs and so on. For more information, see Accessing system information.
• Admin Mode—Click the Admin Mode button to configure various settings locally on the thin client other than broker desktop configurations. For example, you can choose to manually configure the Citrix XenBroker Server URL or override the URL that is centrally defined by file servers by using the Remote Connections dialog box as described in Remote Connections.
  • Classic desktop—Use the Leave Administrator Mode option in the Shutdown dialog box.
  • Zero desktop—Use the Leave Administrator Mode option in the Shutdown dialog box, or use the Leave Administrator Mode icon (X) in the upper-right pane of the System Settings menu.
  NOTE:By default the Admin Mode button is not displayed on the log on dialog box. You can display it by selecting the Show local admin button check box in the Shutdown dialog box, see Signing off and shutting down.
  NOTE:By default there is no password needed for the Admin Mode button use. You can password protect the Admin Mode button (to require login credentials) by using the AdminMode parameter in a wnos.ini file, see Dell Wyse ThinOS INI Guide.
• Shutdown—Click the Shutdown button to open and use the Shutdown dialog box to sign off, shut down, restart, reset the system setting to factory defaults, and so on. For information, see Signing off and shutting down.
• Account Self-Service—Click the Account Self-Service icon shown when configured using the AccountSelfServiceoption of the PasswordServer INI parameter to open and use the Account Self-Service dialog box to change or reset your own password and unlock your account. For information on INI parameter, see Dell Wyse ThinOS INI Guide.

This process assumes that the security questions and answers have been pre-registered by the user inside their Windows environment. Users must use HTTPS (not HTTP) for an account self-service server address such as Https://IPAddress, in the Broker Setup tab. For more information, see Configuring the remote connections. After the security questions are answered, your new password will be set or your account will be unlocked.