What do I need to tell my users?

Users can log in to Tarantella in two ways:

• Using one of the supported web clients.
• Using the Tarantella Native Client, a program dedicated to providing access to a Tarantella webtop. Every Tarantella server has a Tarantella Native Client Setup download page at http://server/tarantella/cgi-bin/install.cgi (you may alternatively use https).

Optionally, you can tell web browser users where to download the Tarantella Java™ archive they need before they first try to log in to Tarantella. These are available at http://server/tarantella/cgi-bin/install.cgi (you may alternatively use https).

This is usually http://server/tarantella (you may alternatively use https), where server is the name of a web server configured for Tarantella.

For anonymous (kiosk-style) access, you may prefer to use http://server/tarantella/kiosk.html.

With an array of Tarantella servers, you may want to use a load-balancing technique to distribute users between the Tarantella servers.

Tarantella supports many different types of user, including users with ENS person objects, UNIX users, LDAP users and anonymous users. The usernames and passwords depend on the type of user.

Applications on users' webtops may run on many different application servers. When a user clicks a link to start an application, Tarantella may prompt them for a username and password for the application server. By default, users may choose to save the authentication details in the password cache (stored securely on the Tarantella server) so they don't need to type their details more than once.

After logging out of Tarantella, users should log out of the web server by closing their web browser.

When Tarantella is first installed, all users have a link to the Using Your Webtop guide on their webtop.