SLNet Defined

Multiple Console Windows

SLNet allows you to remotely open multiple console windows on the Windows desktop just as you would if you were sitting at the terminal and needed to run some programs simultaneously. This functionality is designed to be reasonably unobtrusive, displaying a menu of the processes as needed, otherwise remaining completely invisible as you work in the active window.

SLnet Terminal Emulation

SLnet provides ANSI terminal sequences (compatible with the VT-100 and VT-220) for cursor positioning and formatted screen handling.

SLclient32

SLclient is a full-featured, secure 32-bit Telnet client for Windows. The SLclient32 provides secure logon for SLNet users. When a user enters his or her user ID and password, SLclient32 encrypts them and sends them to SLNet where they are decrypted.

Access to Windows' Common Command Shell

Users who Telnet into SLNet can have full access to Windows' Common Command Shell. This command shell is the equivalent of the DOS command prompt, with many additional features. Users can also run OS/2 or POSIX applications from the command shell. (SLNet is completely configurable by the administrator, who can choose to disable access to the Command Shell on a user-by-user basis.)

Direct Access to Custom Applications

SLNet offers you the power to define default custom applications for users as soon as they log in.

Security

Users run in their own appropriate security context, with all their own permissions in place, just as if they had logged in from the main console. This completely preserves all Windows' C2 security features.

Secure Logon

SLclient32 encrypts user IDs and passwords for secure logon over the Internet. With SLNet's AuthTypes registry value you can specify the level of encryption (and the encryption protocol) for the entire system, or on a user-by-user basis.

Logging

SLNet leaves a record in the Windows event log every time a user connects or disconnects, along with a record of what process the user executed and the resulting code from that process.

Remote Administration

SLNet can be remotely administered by using the Run command.

Character Mapping

Full 256-character out-bound character re-mapping. For use in re-mapping European character sets where umlauts and other accented characters above 127 are needed. Note: This is out-bound character re-mapping not keyboard re-mapping.