5.2.12 Creating and Modifying Terminal Services

Terminal services allow client-based terminal emulator programs to connect to the UNIX host. For many clients, you can simply use the built-in TCP/IP protocol and a vendor-provided--or third-party--telnet program. TAS NetWare terminal services provide the same capability using SPX as a transport. To connect to TAS NetWare terminal services, you need a terminal emulator that supports SPX. Usually, clients with only IPX/SPX available use TAS NetWare terminal services.

Follow these steps to create or modify a terminal service:

1. Follow these links:

   • NetWare Realm->Manage Terminal Services

     The List of NetWare Terminal Service screen appears.

2. From the list, select the terminal service you want to delete, or enter the name of a service you want to create in the text field. The list contains nothing if no terminal services exist.

3. Click Create or Administer. The Administer button does not appear if no terminal services exist.

   If you clicked Create, the Create New NetWare Terminal Service screen below appears. Go to Step 4.

   If you clicked Administer, the NetWare Terminal Service servicename screen appears. Click Configuration, or click the appropriate link from the following, then click OK on the subsequent screen: Accept Service Connections, Reject Service Connections, Status, Start Service, Shutdown Service. If you click Configuration, the Update NetWare Terminal Service servicename screen, same as the Create New NetWare Terminal Service screen below, appears. Go to Step 4.

   

4. Enter or select values for the following attributes, as needed:

   • NetWare Terminal Service Name -- The terminal service. If you clicked Administer and Configuration, this attribute does not appear.

   • Service description -- The description used within TAS for the service. It consists of an arbitrary line of text.

   • Start this terminal service? -- The option to start this terminal service when you click Submit. If you clicked Administer and Configuration, this attribute does not appear.

5. Click Submit.

   The Create New NetWare Terminal Service servicename screen or the Update NetWare Terminal Service servicename screen appears.

6. Click OK.

   To administer a terminal service from the UNIX command line, use the tnservice command.