iSeries Access for Windows network environments

Learn how iSeries™ Access for Windows^® allows you to make services, that are on your server, available to client PCs, in different network environments. Also learn how to administer a PC that has multiple users.

This topic identifies some of the network environments in which iSeries Access for Windows can operate. You can make i5/OS™ services available to your clients by using iSeries Access for Windows in a three-tier environment, or by installing it on a version of the Windows operating system that provides support for remote logon using Terminal Services. You can administer a PC that has multiple users assigned to it.

Choose from the topics below for information on several methods provided for end users to access to iSeries services using iSeries Access for Windows. Typically this involves a direct connection between a PC running iSeries Access for Windows and the iSeries server. However, using Microsoft^® Windows Terminal Server Edition (TSE) environment or iSeries Access for Windows in a three-tier environment allow you to take advantage of other networking environments.

Also choose from the topics below to learn ways provided by iSeries Access for Windows to administer PCs with multiple users:

• Microsoft Windows Terminal Server
  Use Microsoft Windows Terminal Server features with iSeries Access for Windows.
• Use iSeries Access for Windows in a three-tier environment
  By installing iSeries Access for Windows on the middle tier of a three-tier environment, a wide variety of client workstations can access iSeries services.
• Add TCP/IP configuration to all users
  Use the CWBCFG command, from a command prompt or from Start > Run, to configure iSeries server connections for all users defined on a PC.
• Set PC5250 files location for all users
  The default location in which PC5250 emulator searches and stores all files for all defined users is shared by all the users of a PC although some may not have authority to write to it.
• User profiles for PCs with multiple users
  You can administer PCs with multiple iSeries Access for Windows users. This type of administration is available as a function of the Windows operating systems through the use of roaming and mandatory profiles.