ThinLinc provides a connection to a full, graphical desktop environment on a remote computer, including audio, local resource sharing (drives/printers/etc.), and smart card authentication.
It operates over the secure SSH protocol and utilizes optimized variants of VNC, PulseAudio, and NFS to provide a responsive computing environment over the Internet or enterprise networks.
ThinLinc is pre-installed on instructional computers in IST Open-Area Computer Labs, accessible from the INS Programs > Unix-Linux menu.
If you do not have administrative access to your IST-managed workstation, please create an IT Ticket.
Download the ThinLinc software:
Install the software
Launch ThinLinc...
CCLDesktop.cc.umanitoba.ca
, your UMnetID and password and click Connect"db:b7:1f:3a:82:ae:23:b3:21:bd:ed:52:cd:17:51:6e"
. If so, click Continue.Before logging in, you can change the default options which will be used each time you start the ThinLinc client. Use the Advanced>> button to extend the window if it's not already. Click Options... to open the Options window.
When not using ThinLinc, please conserve system resources for others by logging out of the environment. Closing the ThinLinc window does not end your session – instead:
Sessions which are left idle for 4 days will be automatically disconnected, but continue to run on the server.
Sessions which have been disconnected for 21 days will be automatically terminated and any running processes or associated compute jobs will be terminated.
According our policy on Computationally-Intensive Processes the ThinLinc service is intended for interactive computing. Long-running or intensive batch jobs should instead be run on IST’s CC compute cluster.
More Information
If you have additional questions/feedback, please don’t hesitate to ask. Create an IT Ticket or send an email to servicedesk@umanitoba.ca with an info request for the Linux team
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