You shall be asked for a user name and password. Type admin for both and you should be logged into the admin panel of OVD. Now, register your server here and make it the production server so that you can start hosting desktop sessions on it. For this, go to Servers Menu --> Unregistered Servers. Here, you should be able to see your server. Click on register and the server will disappear from this menu, and would be visible within the Server menu. Now click on 'Switch to production' option and the server shall be available to host sessions.

You can go to http://ip_address_of_OVD_Server/sessionmanager and be able see some test  users to login through. To create your own users, go to Configurations --> Profile Settings and select "I want to create my own users" radio button. Now go to the users menu and you should see the option to create new users. Here, just keep filling the user name, login name and password for users and you should be able to create as many users as possible. Once this is done, the next thing you have to do is assign applications to users. This will make sure the users/groups can only use the applications they are authorized to.

The easiest way to do this would be to create new application groups and align them with users which you have created. For this, go to Applications-> Publications Wizard. Here select the 'Create a group with users' radio button and you will see the list of users which you have just created. From here, select users who would have similar rights, or in other words will be in a single group, and hit Next. It will then ask you to give a name to the user group. Once done, it will ask you to either select an application group or to create a new application group. Please note that this is a newly installed machine and so you will not have any pre-created application group.

Create a new application group by selecting the first option which says, 'Create a group with applications.' Once you select this radio button, you will see all available applications on the system. Select apps which you want to allow for the current user group and press Next. In the next screen, it will ask you to give a name to the application group. Give an appropriate name and proceed. In the next screen it will ask you to confirm the activity. Now you can go to any machine in the same network and access http://ip_address_ of_OVD_Server/sessionmanager. Here you shall see a list of all users that you have created. Select the user you want to log into the network with and type its password.

Now you should be able to see a nice desktop with applications which you have authorized to this user.

Getting the Windows touch
As you have installed everything on a Linux box you should be seeing only Linux-based applications. However, you can get Windows apps directly on the same virtual desktop session along with Linux apps. Sounds exiting? Let's see how you can do it. All you have to do is to get a machine with Windows XP/200x installed, and applications which you want to distribute across the OVD should also be there. Now you have to download a client of OVD for Windows. You can get it from http://water2. ulteo.com /ovd/releases/windows/ovd-agent-latest.exe.

Once it has been downloaded, you can install it by clicking on the setup file. The only thing you have to do in this setup wizard is to give the IP address or FQDN of the machine where you have installed the setup file, and the session manager address of the OVD server, which is http://ip_address_of_OVD_Server/sessionmanager. Now follow the wizard till it ends and after that you should be able to see the Windows machine in the http:// ip_address_of_OVD_Server/sessionmanager/admin pages/ Servers --> Unregistered Servers section. Now register and make the machine production server, in exactly the same way as you did for the main OVD server (explained earlier).

Once that's done, while creating application groups or while running Publication wizard, you should be able to see applications installed on the Windows machine as well, and you should even be able to push these apps directly to the user sessions.