Administrator Guide

Figure 14. Other settings
To congure the other settings, do the following:
1 In the Source section, congure one of the following options:
• Contact DHCP server—If you set the hostname of the thin client by selecting the DHCP server option, the hostname is set to
the standard host-name tag received from the DHCP server. If the DHCP server does not provide the host-name tag, the device
retains the previously set hostname.
• DNS reverse lookup—If you select DNS reverse lookup option to enter the hostname of the thin client, a reverse DNS lookup
operation is performed using the existing IPv4 address of the thin client, and the hostname is set to the received value.
NOTE
: The previous hostname is retained if the device cannot perform a successful reverse DNS lookup
operation due to reasons such as, network connection is not established, DNS servers are not established or are
invalid, and the IP address is not in the DNS server’s list.
• Derive from MAC address—Select the Derive from MAC address option to specify the host name of the thin client. You can
specify the hostname by using the MAC address. The Ethernet of the thin client interfaces with the MAC address. It creates the
hostname by extracting the MAC address from its eld separators, such as, (:) and the MAC address is prexed with the string
LWT. For example, a device with MAC address of 00:80:64:c1:8b:14 has MAC derived hostname as LWT008064c18b14. If you want
to use the manually named device as a seed device for Merlin image pulling, you must be cautious in specifying the hostname
manually. The changed hostname is pushed to other devices and these devices use the same hostname. Only through device
factory reset, you can recover the default value by using MAC address.
• Use the following name—This option enables you to enter your preferred hostname. When you log in to the session, the screen
displays the previous hostname in the box and in the Terminal option.
NOTE
: The hostname entered is not authenticated if the string entered has a white space. The rst part of the
string up to the rst white space is used to set the hostname of the devices. All white spaces at the beginning of
the string are ignored, and the maximum hostname string size is 64.
2 In the Additional entries to /etc/hosts section, you can set the device name and update the entries on the /etc/hosts le. This
option enables you to add to the preset default data, and update or delete the existing entries. To congure this option, do the
following:
a Enter the IP address, host name,and Aliases in the respective elds.
b Click the Add option, and update the default data.
3 In the Hide Desktop icons section, congure any of the following options:
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