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NCD ThinPATH™ Xware

Cost effective access to legacy systems

NCD ThinPATH Xware delivers X Windows emulation to Microsoft® Windows® Terminal Server.


Highlights
  • Delivers X Windows applications to Windows-based Terminals or PC devices
  • Multi-user version of NCD’s industry standard X Windows emulation product
  • Migrates terminal users to NT application environments while retaining the low management overhead of thin clients
  • Connects thin client users to X Windows applications on any host including Sun®, DEC® and UNIX® systems
  • Licensed for Citrix WinFrame™ and Microsoft® Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition
NCD ThinPATH™ Xware—X Windows emulation from NT server
NCD ThinPATH Xware is a server-based emulator module from the NCD ThinPATH family of software, NCD ThinPATH Xware displays X Windows applications side-by-side with Windows NT applications on the thin client desktop. NCD’s expertise in X Windows emulation yields these NCD ThinPATH Xware features:
  • Superior 32-bit X server performance
  • X11R6 Font server support
  • Graphical keyboard remapping utility
  • Graphical FTP client
  • VT terminal emulation
  • Local and remote Window Management support
  • Customized options for multi-user administration
NCD ThinPATH Xware—optimized for thin clients
NCD ThinPATH Xware is the ideal solution for organizations beginning to deploy Windows NT Servers. NCD ThinPATH Xware installs quickly and easily on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition or Citrix WinFrame. Access from thin client desktops is provided through the RDP, ICA or X11 protocols. System Administrators can choose the level of access and configuration control users are allowed, regardless of whether the desktop device is a PC, Windows-based Terminal, Network Computer, UNIX Workstation or Macintosh®.

High performance in multi-user NT environments
NCD ThinPATH Xware combines high X Windows compliance with optimized performance for multi-user NT systems from Microsoft and Citrix. To ensure easy access between legacy and NT applications, NCD ThinPATH Xware uses the advanced desktop design of Windows NT 4.0 to access X Windows and other Intranet applications over the network. A Connection Wizard simplifies access to host applications, while central administration options allow a high degree of setup flexibility. Through NCD ThinPATH Xware, System Administrators are readily able to optimize the X Windows Server to match users’ expertise at the desktop.

The NCD ThinPATH Software Family
NCD ThinPATH Xware is a member of the NCD ThinPATH Software family. NCD ThinPATH Software provides enhanced functionality and flexibility for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Terminal Server Edition from PCs and NCD ThinSTAR Windows-based Terminals. The NCD ThinPATH Software family is comprised of Management, Desktop Support, and Emulation modules. NCD ThinPATH Software offers a robust, low-cost Terminal Server solution. NCD ThinPATH Software is predicated on NCD’s decade of experience in meeting customer needs with industry-leading hardware and software technology. A good deal of our success is the result of close working relationships with companies like Citrix®, IBM®, Intel® and Microsoft®.

World-class technical support
NCD and NCD Technology Certified Resellers provide a decade of experience in thin client computing. Backed by formal service level agreements with Microsoft and Citrix, you can choose from a wide range of services that cover the entire thin client environment.

Technical Specifications

NT Server Operation Systems
  • Microsoft's Windows NT® Server 4.0—Terminal Server Edition
  • Citrix WinFrame 1.6/1.7 (Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.51)
  • 32 MB Base RAM + 4 MB per user (server RAM)
Multiple User Support
  • Separate folder for Administrator-created connections
  • Separate folder for end-user created connections
  • Configurations defined by the Administrator or end-user
  • Display number may be specified or automatically assigned
X Server
  • 32-bit X11R6
  • Backing store
  • Save under
  • XRDB
  • Visual support
  • Automatic visual selection
  • Support for StaticGray, GrayScale, PseudoColor, DirectColor, TrueColor, StaticColor
  • Extension support
  • SIE
  • WinCenter Acceleration
  • SHAPE
  • XIE
  • XIdle
  • XTEST
  • PSEUDO-ROOT
  • MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD
  • ServerManagementExtension
Font Management
  • X11R6 font support
  • X11R6 font server
  • Automatic font substitution
  • File services access to fonts via TFTP
  • Native X server font format compressed .PCF
Optional Fonts
  • HP, DEC, OpenLook, Hanzi Guobiao, Hangul, Kanji
Keyboard
  • Automatic keyboard detection
  • Graphical keyboard remapper
  • Predefined Map for Generic UNIX, Sun Type 4 and 5, DEC, Latin 1, Latin 2 and Modifier keys
Desktop Management
  • Single window mode
  • One Microsoft window in which all X applications run using NCDwm or a remote window manager
  • Multiple window mode
  • X applications and Windows applications run simultaneously on desktop with either a local or remote window manager
  • Virtual screen support
Local Window Managers
  • Microsoft Window Manager
  • NCD Window Manager
  • OSF/MOTIF appearance and behavior
  • ICCCM-compliance
  • Support for click-to-type and pointer-driven input models
  • Uses standard X Window configuration files
Remote Window Management Support
  • Support for OPEN LOOK, Motif, twm, others
  • DEC Session Manager
  • Available in single and multiple window mode
Common Desktop Environments (CDE)
  • TriTeal Enterprise Desktop (TED)
  • HP Vue
  • SCO
Startup Methods
  • Telnet, rlogin, rexec, rsh
  • X Display Manager
  • Broadcast, direct, indirect
Remote Access
  • XRemote over PPP
  • Serial, XRemote
  • Custom scripting support for automated dialing login and call-back procedures
NCD Terminal Emulation
  • VT320, VT300, VT220, VT102, VT100, VT52 ANSI support
  • Uses X default file for terminal emulation configuration
  • Color support
  • Hewlett Packard color pair model
  • Character sets
  • ASCII (7-bit and 8-bit)
  • DEC Supplemental Graphics
  • ISO Latin Alphabets 1 Supplemental Graphics
  • Scripting support
Configuration and Administration Management
  • Xdefaults file
  • X keyboard map
  • Host machines/applications
  • Window Manager
  • Open systems-based remote configuration and diagnostics
  • GUI-based
  • ASCII-based Telnet
Security
  • MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1
  • XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 FTP Client
  • 32-bit Windows FTP Client
  • Drag-and-drop file transfer
  • File transfer, preview, renaming and deletion from one program
 


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