Open Session Dialog Box
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The Open Session dialog box lists all session profiles and provides information about these profiles. You can also create new profiles in this dialog box, create folders in which to store the profiles, and reconfigure existing profiles.
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Each button in the Open Session dialog box has an associated keyboard shortcut. |
Folder—Displays the location of profiles displayed in the dialog box.
Up One Level—Navigates from a subfolder to its parent folder.
Create New Profile button—Opens the New Profile dialog box, which lets you creates a new session profile.
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When creating a profile, the profile name cannot contain any of the following characters: \ / : * ? “ < > | |
Create New Profile Folder button—Lets you create and name a new profile folder.
Profile list—Lists the available folders and their profiles. This box also provides information about each profile, such as its name, its type of connection, the host it connects to, and its port. You can double-click a profile to connect, or you can right-click a profile and select an option from the context menu.
Host Name—Displays the host name (IP address) of the selected profile. You can edit the host name in this box.
TCP Port—Specifies the host port or socket number to use for the Telnet session. You can specify a number between 0 and 65535. The default for this option depends on the parameters you set in the profile you select.
Connect—Launches the selected profile to attempt to connect to the host. You must select a profile with a valid host name to launch a connection.