AAP User Manual (for Mac)
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1. of the audio suffers Play Audio Synchronously All audio will played as it is received regardless of what is happening with video 5 In the Audio tab you will find choices on how you would like your audio to be sent to your client By default the client will support Remote Audio Playback To improve performance you may want to turn it off on the AAP client Just muting the sound on your client hardware will not turn the sound off in the AAP client and will not provide any data savings If you want the data savings that not supporting Remote Audio Playback will provide you will need to toggle this switch to the off position 6 The Lossy Audio Compression toggle works for high bandwidth low latency sessions By default it is turned on for low bandwidth sessions If you toggle this off you are requesting that your audio not be compressed and be exactly as the application sent it as long as you have enough bandwidth for it 7 You can choose to either Synchronize Audio with Video or Play Audio synchronously If you choose to Synchronize Audio with Video the client will try to keep the two in sync at the expense of better audio If you choose to Play Audio Synchronously your audio will be played at full quality and not try to keep it in synch with your video Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 8 of 10 Display Printing Keyboard Audio v Compress data sent to and from the server v Encrypt data sent to and received f2. Aqua Accelerated Protocol AAP For Mac User Manual AAP Table of Contents About Aqua Accelerated Protocol ccccccccecceeeeeeeeeeeeeseneeneeeesenscneseesensoneseessneones 3 System FROGUINGINIQIIUS sedaieesites tose atdcieaedntila us tindssredivecsades nla taitatemecemduesaesiaeteneemensbemnadsteoet 4 Hardware CMGI ecsi ena teaautedcouiesanecencaitesaie wuawenuucaucuanes aaa seeuudesearvavetuee aiid danteversuatuaeuinee 4 Hardware Server Connecting 10 ciiscciciseseetvedeacenseatiwsivciixedateisaneraehnretaauessseeniedvatenvexvowdews 4 SoftWare AAP CHOI ercsi a a aaa aaa 4 Software Server Connecting tO s sssssssnnnrnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn 4 Establishing Connections to Aqua Connect Remote Desktop Services 5 PRONO aoon E tans motewantestace weevnns am sansevennesesteenesaatsanetve 6 PRCTORCNGES onian acne oumaateueaebanwuicussauareitanwnotsuretantseratennsus 6 G neral User Tip Sesani a a a 10 Cu rrentiy Reported BUGS ineas e a a a E a 10 Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 2 of 10 About Aqua Accelerated Protocol Aqua Accelerated Protocol AAP is a protocol designed by Aqua Connect to work with our line of products for Apple hardware Created to improve upon the other protocols available AAP has several features that are improvements on both VNC and RDP While VNC has no encryption and RDP has 128 bit AAP has RSA 2048 bit TLS FIPS 140 2 encryptio
3. and lower limits we recommend that you keep your display resolution between 640x480 and 2560x1600 for best use 2 The Fast Update Quality slider allows you to choose the quality of updated screens sent from the server Higher quality updates will look better but take more bandwidth Lower quality updates will look blurry but will use less bandwidth Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 6 of 10 a0 Preferences Display Keyboard Audio Server Submit Print Jobs to Printer Ask Each Time 3 In the Printing tab you can choose which printer your print jobs will be sent to In the dropdown you can have it ask you each time which printer you would like to use or pick from a list of available printers Audio Server Display Printing Send Application Switching Keys to Remote Session Causes application switching key combinations e g 3 tab Expose Mission Control etc to be sent to the remote session Note that this may affect your ability to use these keys locally 4 In the Keyboard tab you can choose to send your application switching keys to your remote session If you choose to do that you may not be able to use those keys locally It is not set by default Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 7 of 10 a O Preferences Display Printing Keyboard Welle Server v Remote Audio Playback e Synchronize Audio with Video Audio will remain synchronized with video even if the quality
4. e on several different platforms users have a wide variety of choices for clients This guide assumes that you already have ACTS or ACRDS installed and working on the server you wish to connect to For the most up to date list of versions available please visit our AAP downloads page that is posted on the website http www aquaconnect net downloads 1 Download the client application on the hardware you wish to connect with Drag the application bundle to your Application folder 2 Open up the client application You will first see the login window that looks like this Server v Username Password D V1 0 1 V Save Password Connect 3 In the login window enter in the IP Address of your AAP Server By default AAP uses port 310 to connect so you should make sure that it is open If you would like to connect via a different port you should enter in the server IP address and then add a colon and the desired port number at the end of it If you have connected to a server before the IP Address should be available in the dropdown 4 Enter in the User Name and Password of the user you wish to connect with If you would like the client to save your password check the Save Password box Please make sure that you are not logging into the user that is already logged on at the console if there is a user or the server will not log you in remotely If you would like to save your User Name and Password check the box Hit Connect 5 Aft
5. er a few seconds your session will appear When you want to leave the session you can either disconnect or log out Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 5 of 10 Printing For remote printing AAP provides full support and does not require the installation of any printer drivers on the server Extra printer features like stapling or collating may not be supported When clicking Print the menu for printing will show up both on the client hardware and in the session The printer window that appears in the session will contain minimal options such as number of pages to print and orientation The printer you want to use will say YOUR USER NAME s Printer Once you choose a printer in the session then the print job is transmitted in pieces to the client hardware which will then display a local print dialog window once the complete job has arrived This one should have all of the features available Preferences If you would like to change how the client handles your connections you can go to the Apple Menu and choose Preferences an Preferences Printing Keyboard Audio Server Display Settings Display Resolution 1024 x 768 Low High Fast Update Quality 1 In the Display tab you can set your display resolution Currently it offers 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1680x1050 Other and Full Screen If you choose Other boxes will appear for you to enter in the resolution you would like While there are no set upper
6. n It can also provide full motion 1080p video at less than 1 Mbps download speed versus at least 7 Mbps for RDP In terms of speed AAP provides a 2 to 1 data savings over VNC including audio which VNC does not support With audio on it provides a 5 to 1 data savings over RDP With audio turned off on the client it provides a 10 to 1 data savings over RDP In general we recommend having anywhere from 2 5 Mbps per user when using RDP With AAP we recommend 1 2 Mbps per user For AAP latency is a factor in performance in addition to available bandwidth AAP is optimized for a network connection with latency of 100ms or less However higher latencies could yield an acceptable experience Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 3 of 10 System Requirements Hardware Client e Intel Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz processor with 4 GB of physical memory installed and 256 MB of dedicated video memory Hardware Server Connecting to e Intel Core 2 Duo 2 Ghz processor with 4 GB of physical memory installed Software AAP Client e Apple Mac OS X software for v 10 5 v 10 6 v 10 7 or v 10 8 Software Server Connecting to e Apple Mac OS X software v 10 7 4 or higher or v 10 8 2 or higher e Version of Aqua Connect Terminal Server Remote Desktop Server higher than 4202 Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 4 of 10 Establishing Connections to Aqua Connect Remote Desktop Services Since Aqua Accelerated Protocol was designed for us
7. n it off You can always turn it on again if needed It will only do it the first time you log on When printing using your session for more than just basic use may slow down printing up to five times longer than usual If you are playing audio and video it may be disrupted Printing will resume when the audio and video playback is stopped Users who are using the 10 5 version of the client will see a lesser performance than they would when using the 10 6 10 7 or 10 8 versions as the client has not be optimized for use on 10 5 When in full screen mode on 10 6 and higher if you place the mouse cursor at the top of the screen and wait a moment the local computer s menu bar will appear over the session s menu bar which will allow you to close the client or do other local system tasks Currently Reported Bugs 1 2 Only one AAP client window per client machine can be running at a time The clipboard is broken to and from the session to the client Cut and Paste will work inside the session though Sometimes when using an application with sound and you disconnect you may not have sound in your session when you reconnect If that occurs completely close the application you were running and open it again Sound should work again Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 10 of 10
8. rom the server 8 In the Server tab you can choose whether you would like to compress your data to and from the server or not By default it is turned on If you choose not to compress your data all of the information will be sent at full quality You can also choose whether to encrypt the data sent to and from the server in this tab By default it is also turned on If you need to use a VPN to connect to your server you can choose to uncheck this box so you would only be encrypting the data once instead of twice Note that these settings must match the settings in the server for Aqua Connect versions 3 7 4768 and above Once you make your changes close the Preferences section It will automatically save your changes Aqua Accelerated Protocol User Manual Mac Page 9 of 10 General User Tips 1 Mixing connections of RDP and AAP in the same session are highly discouraged because the two protocols are very different and could cause issues Audio and video are in sync Even with high compression the audio may get behind You may hear a skip in the audio as it tries to catch up If you would like to improve the audio experience disable lossy compression on the audio That option can be found in the Preferences section Running AAP over a VPN will take a performance hit possibly due to the double encryption AAP works best when Flash Acceleration is turned off The first time you log in with the AAP client it will automatically tur
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