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Copyright © 1991-2, RSA Data Security, MN-LGDUG0-XX-US 2 Contents 1 Introducing LapLink Gold 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42 Why LapLink? Staying in touch with the office Connecting at the office How can I connect to other computers? Connecting by modem--Overview Connecting by modem directly to another LapLink computer Dialing in to a network through an office computer: LinkToNet Dialing in to a network through a network server: Dial-Up Networking Using Address Book for modem connections Connecting over the Internet Making a computer available for Internet connections Using an office Internet connection from outside the office Connecting over an office network Using Address Book for network connections Connecting by cable Connecting by wireless Connecting over CAPI 2.0/ISDN Changing CAPI 2.0/ISDN performance in LapLink Connecting automatically 3 Setting up security for incoming connections 46 48 50 52 54 56 58 62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 80 82 84 86 88 Allowing incoming connections Denying access to certain drives and folders Locking out password crackers Allowing or requiring callbacks Allowing incoming LinkToNet calls Protecting your security settings with a password Encrypting information over incoming connections Using Remote Control--Overview Viewing the host Customizing keyboard control Disabling the host keyboard and mouse and blanking its screen Rebooting and logging on to the host Hosting a Remote Control session Sharing clipboard information with remote computers Customizing Remote Control performance Using File Transfer--Overview Navigating through drives and folders Selecting files and folders Copying or moving files and folders Setting File Transfer options for the results you want 3 2 Connecting to other computers 4 Using Remote Control 5 Using File Transfer 90 92 94 96 Synchronizing folders with SmartXchange Replacing one folder with another: Clone Folder Speeding file transfers with SpeedSync and compression Resuming an interrupted file transfer 112 Scheduling an Xchange Agent to run automatically Using Print Redirection--Overview Printing over a LapLink connection Setting up printers for Print Redirection Exchanging typed messages using Text Chat Talking to someone using Voice Chat Improving Voice Chat performance Using Manual conversation mode Introduction to troubleshooting 7 Using Print Redirection 116 118 120 124 126 128 130 134 6 Automating file synchronization with Xchange Agent 100 102 104 106 108 110 Using Xchange Agent--Overview Creating an Xchange Agent Previewing and running an Xchange Agent Dealing with conflicts Customizing an Xchange Agent Using filters to include or exclude files 8 Using Text Chat and Voice Chat 9 Troubleshooting 159 Index 4 1 Introducing LapLink Gold 6 8 10 Why LapLink? Staying in touch with the office Connecting at the office Why LapLink? LapLink gives you the freedom to leave the office without giving up access to your office computer and network resources. Whether you're traveling on business or working from home, you can still read your email, share the latest files with coworkers, access network programs and databases, browse the Internet over a high-speed connection, and collaborate with colleagues. Things you once could do only in the office you can now do remotely. Suppose you work at home Instead of joining the morning rush-hour traffic, you sit down at your home computer, connect to your office, and begin your workday as usual, by tackling your e-mail. While finishing your orange juice, you read your messages, write new ones, send replies--in other words, you operate much as you would in the office. You're using LapLink. In particular, you're using Remote Control, one of the LapLink services, to operate your office computer from home. On your home monitor you see what you would have seen had you commuted to work, and you operate your e-mail program as you would have from the office. You can even use your home printer for those messages you'll review later. Forget to get the latest copy of a file before leaving the office? Move to File Transfer, another LapLink service, and drag the file from the folder on the office network to its location on your hard drive at home. Since you're updating a file already on your home computer, the file is transferred almost before you know it. (In fact, LapLink merely updates the file, transferring only the parts that have changed.) Returning to Remote Control, you start a network application and access the company's huge product database. Just as you thought, customers ordered more blue widgets last month than during the previous two months combined! More grist for the quarterly report you're working on. 6 While you're still connected, you check out a rumor. Is the competition really selling their widgets at cutthroat prices? Connecting over the dedicated Internet line in the office, you visit the competition's Web site. Whew, no price war after all! A final check of your e-mail confirms your suspicions. It's off to Chicago tomorrow for a two-day business trip. Suppose you're on a business trip Settling into your hotel room, you take your eyes off the view long enough to discover a dedicated digital phone line. All the better to connect to your office computer, first by dialing the local number for your Internet service provider and then by opening a LapLink connection over the Internet. It's been a busy day. You need to catch up with your coworkers and exchange the latest files with them. You rush through your e-mail, finishing in time to connect to a coworker's computer. Her e-mail sounded desperate: if you're free before 7 o'clock this evening, could you help with the cover art for the annual report? Now you're looking at her monitor and talking to her at the same time, using another LapLink service, Voice Chat. After some discussion and trying this and that, the two of you agree: make the logo larger and reverse the colors. She'll have a finished draft waiting for you on the network in an hour. . . . Why LapLink? In an hour, however, you expect to be at your favorite Chicago restaurant, choosing from the dessert menu. On your way out the door, you schedule LapLink to reopen the connection with the office and synchronize folders on your laptop with folders on the office network. By the time you return to your hotel room, LapLink will have exchanged the quarterly report you finished on the red-eye flight this morning for the reports that await your review on the office network. And you'll get the latest draft of the cover art as well. Now to find the time to review all of this. 7 Staying in touch with the office lines, modems, and LapLink: these are the basics necessary to connect to the office from home or elsewhere. To these basics you can add a network, a network server, even the Internet. You determine how to connect by considering your office setup and what you want to accomplish when you are connected. Connecting to the office requires that your home computer or your laptop have a modem and a phone line to connect to. It must also be running LapLink. Depending on the availability of a network and the Internet in your office, you can then make any or all of these kinds of connections: · To your office computer directly · To your office computer or another office computer through the office network · To your office computer through the Internet Phone Connecting to the office network If your office has a network, you can connect to the network and then to any computer running LapLink on the network, including your own. In fact, you can access any network resources normally available to you from the office. If you browse the Internet from your desk at work, for example, you can browse it from afar, too. LapLink gives you two ways to connect to the office network: · Dial in to a dedicated network dial-up server using Dialup Networking · Dial in to a modem on an office computer using LinkToNet Before using LinkToNet, set up your computer or any other computer as a LinkToNet host. When you leave the office, leave LapLink running, with the modem turned on. Connecting directly to your office computer If your office computer is equipped with a modem, you can connect to the computer directly, using Connect over Modem. Turn on the modem and leave LapLink running when you leave the office. Then connect through the modem and run programs and transfer files as you would normally. If your computer is attached to a network, you can read your e-mail and access the customary network resources, though you cannot connect to other computers on the network. Connecting over the Internet Many workstations now have direct Internet access over dedicated, high-speed connections. If your office computer is one of these--and you have Internet access from your home computer or your laptop--you can connect to the office using Connect over Internet. 8 . . . Staying in touch with the office Using Connect over Internet is like connecting to your office computer by modem, with these advantages: · The office computer does not require a modem. · If you make a local call to connect to the Internet while you're away from the office, you can save money on your long-distance connections to the office. · If you connect to the Internet over a high-speed line while you're away from the office, you can improve the speed of your connection to the office. Before connecting over the Internet, set up your office computer for Internet access by publishing its address through the LapLink Internet directory. Then be sure to leave LapLink running. 9 Connecting at the office th greater resources at hand, you can make faster connections--and connect in more ways--while working in the office. Connect over a corporate network, for example, for the fastest file transfers. Use a LapLink cable to synchronize your desktop and laptop before and after you travel. And take advantage of your organization's direct connection to the Internet for cheap connections to distant locations. Wi Connect to other computers on your network If your office is equipped with a local network (LAN), you can connect directly to any other network computer running LapLink using Connect over Network.Because LapLink connections over networks are fast, they are ideal for sending large amounts of data in a short time. Suppose it's your job to distribute files to several computers every Tuesday. To automate the operation, create an Xchange Agent file by showing LapLink which files to copy and where to copy them. When Tuesday arrives, run the Xchange Agent yourself or schedule it to run unattended, at a time when the computers are usually idle. LapLink automatically connects to the computers, transfers files to the designated folders, and disconnects, all without assistance. It may also be your job to maintain those computers. Without leaving your desk, you can use Remote Control to troubleshoot problems on other computers, chatting with their users, if necessary. You could then locate the most recent files, whether on the laptop or the desktop, and copy them to the other computer. Instead ...