Menu Commands → Quick Connection
Note: We offer various Quick Start Guides, which provide detailed
descriptions of this dialog, focusing on specific communication methods such as
SSH (Secure Shell), Telnet and
10224,serial connections). In contrast, the text below offers a
more general overview.
Quick Connection is a window that allows you to quickly set up a connection to a host. This feature is designed for connections that you do not plan to make regularly. For hosts you connect to frequently, you should add an entry to the Host Directory. Host Directory entries can be activated through various shortcut methods, such as user-defined buttons or key combinations, and they offer additional benefits like automatic login.
To make a quick connection, select a connection type, the host to connect to, an optional port number (for Telnet, Rlogin, and SSH connections), an emulation, and your login data (for SSH and Rlogin connections).
The connection will be based on various configuration options (e.g., window size, colors, cursor shape, etc.) defined in a Session Profile. The session profile also contains options for connection type and terminal emulation, but in the Quick Connection window, you can override these specific settings using the Configure buttons without altering the session profile (altering the session profile may affect other connections which are are based on that).
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Depending on the connection type, you can enter a host name or IP address, a phone number or whatever identifies the remote host. This field offers also list of recently made connections. If you want to reconnect to a host to which you recently made a connection, simply pick the host from the drop down list.
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If necessary, you can make the connection based on a session profile different from the one which is currently loaded. However, in any case (loaded or current), the selection of connection type and emulation in the quick connect window will override the corresponding settings from the session profile. This allows you to use a session profile which matches your needs generally (in regard to screen layout, f-keys, etc.) and reuse it for connections that require different connection types and emulations.
See also: Customizing ZOC
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This is a list of connection types which can be
used to make the connection. Most of these methods can be configured by
clicking the Configure button
next to the list. Alternately, general defaults for each communication type can be set
in the Device section of the Session Profile.
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Here you select a terminal emulation which will be used to let the host
display data in the terminal area of ZOC. The emulation will depend
on your remote host. For connections to Linux or Unix hosts the
Xterm or VT220 emulations will be a good choices, although
other systems sometimes require quite specific and even obscure choices.
Emulation specific settings can be configured by clicking the
Configure button next to the list and
general defaults can be defined for each emulation in
Options→Session Profile→Emulation.
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SSH and Rlogin communication will offer a field to enter your username. Type a username or
use the text %USERNAME% or %USERNAMELWR% or %USERNAMEUPR% to log in
using the same username that was used to log on to your workstation (the latter two placeholders
are variants of the username translated to lower or upper case characters).
This field will be used to identify you on the remote host. If you enter
? as a username here, you will be prompted for one at login time.
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SSH will also offer a field to enter your password. The password is usually required together with your username and you will be prompted for one if you do not enter it here.
If you enable the Save password option, ZOC will remember the
password if you use this dialog again for the same host
(you can manage saved passwords in
Options→Program Settings→Passwords).
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When making SSH connections, some hosts require files containing public and private encryption keys rather than using a username/password pair for identification. You can either pick an individual file from the SSH directory (configured in Options-Menu, Program Settings, Folders) or use the global SSH authentication file, which are chosen by pressing the configure button next to where you select Secure Shell in this window or through the secure shell settings in Edit Session Profile→Connection Type If, instead of a private key file, you provide the full name and path of a PKCS#11 compatible DLL, ZOC will use that pkcs11 DLL to access your smart-card and retrieve the identy from the SmartCard chip. Note: Public/private key file pairs can be created through the Manage SSH Keys function, which is available from ZOC's File menu while Secure Shell is your active communication method. | |||||||||||||||||||
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