Dell Wyse ThinOS Version 8.5 Administrator’s Guide

Configuring the general settings

1. From the desktop menu, click System Setup, and then click Network Setup.
   The Network Setup dialog box is displayed.
2. Click the General tab, and use the following guidelines:
   1. To set the default gateway, select the type of network interface from the available options.
      1. Single Network support—Either wireless or wired network is connected.
         • ENET — Click this option, if you want set up the Ethernet Wired Network Connection.
         • WLAN — Click this option, if you want set up the Wireless Network Connection.

         • If the user use wireless network after selecting ENET connection or wired network after selecting WLAN connection, then the system log "WLAN: set default gateway xx.xx.xx.xx" for first case and "ENET: set default gateway xx.xx.xx.xx" for second case are printed to ensure that the UI setting reflects the actual usage.

         NOTE:The User Interface (UI) will not be changed automatically.
      2. Dual Network support—Both wireless and wired networks are connected. The default gateway is determined by the UI settings.
   2. Use Static Name Servers—By default, this check box is not selected, and thin client fetches the server IP address from DHCP. Select this check box to manually assign static IP addresses.
      If name servers are changed using GUI, INI or link down/up, then the details are displayed in Event Logs.

      In dynamic mode, the DNS/WINS can be merged from Ethernet and Wireless, if network is not working.

      1. Enter the URL address of the DNS Domain in the DNS Domain box.
      2. Enter the IP address of the DNS Server in the DNS Server box.

         Use of DNS is optional. DNS allows you to specify remote systems by their host names rather than IP addresses. If a specific IP address (instead of a name) is entered for a connection, it is used to make the connection. Enter the DNS Domain and the network address of an available DNS Server. The function of the DNS Domain entry is to provide a default suffix to be used in name resolution. The values for these two boxes may be supplied by a DHCP server. If the DHCP server supplies these values, they replace any locally configured values. If the DHCP server does not supply these values, the locally configured values will be used.

         NOTE:You can enter up to 16 DNS Server addresses, separated by a semicolon, comma, or space. The first address is for the primary DNS server and the rest are secondary DNS servers or backup DNS servers.
      3. Enter the IP address of the WINS Server in the WINS Server box.

         Use of WINS is optional. Enter the network address of an available WINS name server. WINS allows you to specify remote systems by their host names rather than IP addresses. If a specific IP address (instead of a name) is entered for a connection, it is used to make the connection. These entries can be supplied through DHCP, if DHCP is used. DNS and WINS provide essentially the same function, name resolution. If both DNS and WINS are available, the thin client attempts to resolve the name using DNS first and then WINS.

         You can enter two WINS Server addresses (primary and secondary), separated by a semicolon, comma, or space.

   3. Enter the digit multiplier of 30 seconds in the TCP Timeout box to set the time-out value of a TCP connection. The value must be 1 or 2 which means the connection time-out value is from 1x30= 30 seconds to 2x30= 60 seconds. If the data for connecting to the server is not acknowledged and the connection is time out, setting the time-out period retransmits the sent data and again tries to connect to the server till the connection is established.
3. Click OK to save the settings.