Select Specify host name if you want to define the destination host in the connection profile. Enter the name or the IP address of the remote host computer to which you want to connect with the profile.

When transparent TCP tunneling is used on Windows, '%DESTINATION_HOSTNAME%' is supported as the hostname definition. This option exists for backward compatibility reasons. From release 6.0 onwards, you can define that SSH Tectia ConnectSecure uses the destination IP address received from the tunneled application with setting Transparent Tunnels → Filter Rules → Use host name from the application (in XML configuration: hostname-from-app="yes").

Select Prompt user for the host name if you want the user to enter the host name manually when connecting.

Select Use current Windows user name if the connection should always be made using the currently logged in Windows user name. This is similar to defining %USERNAME% (note the percent signs) as the user name. %USERNAME% reads the actual user name from an environment variable.

Select Specify user name and enter the user name, if you want to define the user name this profile will use when connecting to the remote host computer.

Select Prompt user for the user name if the user should enter the user name manually every time when connecting.

Select Use the Default Connection's user name if you want to apply the generic user name defined in the General - Default Connection settings.

In Port number, enter the port number you want to use for the Secure Shell connection. The default port is 22.

	Note
	A Secure Shell server program must be listening to the specified port on the remote host computer or the connection attempt will not succeed. If you are unsure which port the remote host computer is listening to, contact the system administrator of the remote host.

In Compression, select the desired compression setting from the drop-down menu. Valid choices are zlib and none. Compression is disabled by default.

In Tunnel using profile, use this drop-down list to select a profile for creating a nested tunnel.

This field shows information on where the defined profile is used.

Select the check box to use the values defined on the Default Connection page (Defining Server Connections) for the server connection settings.

This settings define the number of transport channels used by the Secure Shell connection. Using more than one transport channel may increase the throughput over low bandwidth connections. Currently, a value of 1 to 8 transports is supported. The default is 2 transport channels.

Specify how long idle time (after all connection channels are closed) is allowed for a connection before automatically closing the connection. The default is 5 seconds. Setting a longer time allows the connection to the server to remain open even after a session (for example, SSH Tectia terminal GUI) is closed. During this time, a new session to the server can be initiated without re-authentication. Setting the time to 0 (zero) terminates the connection immediately when the last channel to the server is closed.

Specify for how long a TCP connection will be attempted to a Secure Shell server. Define the timeout in seconds. After the defined time the TCP connection will be released in case the remote server is down or unreachable. Setting the value as 0 (zero) means that the default system TCP timeout will be used.

Specify an interval (in seconds) for sending keepalive messages to a Secure Shell server. The default is 0, meaning that no keepalive messages are sent.

Select this check box if you want that the profile always opens a new connection, instead of reusing a currently open connection.

Select the check box if you want to have the server banner message file (if it exists) visible to users before login.

Select this option if you do not want to use a proxy.

Select this option to use the proxy rules defined in the General settings Proxy Rules page (Defining Proxy Rules).

Click Add... to add a new proxy definition for this profile.

Figure 4.17. Defining alternate proxy for the profile

Select the Type of the rule. The type can be Direct, Socks4, Socks5, or Http.

For other types than direct, enter the address of the proxy Server and Port.

The text colors affect the terminal window background color and the color of text in both a connected window and a disconnected window.

Select the desired cursor color from the drop-down menu. You can select from sixteen colors. Navy is the default cursor color.

With ANSI control codes it is possible to change the color of text in a terminal window. With the ANSI Colors setting you can select to use this feature. Even if you disable ANSI colors, you can still select your favorite text and background colors to be used in the terminal window.

Select the Enable ANSI Colors check box to allow ANSI colors to be used in the terminal window. By default, ANSI colors are selected.

By reversing the display colors you can quickly change the display from positive (dark on light) to negative (light on dark) to improve visibility.

Select the Reverse Video check box to change the foreground color into background color and vice versa. This setting affects the whole terminal window when you click OK.

Use this option to create additional keyboard shortcuts or to modify the existing ones. The additional key mappings are saved into a separate file with the .sshmap file extension. The current keymap file is displayed in the text field.

You can modify the current key mappings by clicking Edit to open the Keymap Editor dialog.

If you have defined an alternative keymap settings file, you can load it by typing the path and file name in the text field, or by clicking on the button on the right-hand side of the text field. Clicking the button will open an Open dialog that allows you to locate an alternative keymap file.

Select the Backspace sends Delete check box if you want to map the Backspace key to the Delete operation.

Select the Delete Sends Backspace check box if you want to map the Delete key to the Backspace operation.

Select the Enter sends CR + LF check box if you want to map the Enter key to send the carriage return (CR) and line feed (LF) characters. Otherwise only the line feed character will be sent.

Select the Lock Function Keys check box if you want to lock the function keys.

Select the Line Wrap check box if you want the text lines to wrap at the terminal window edge. By default, line wrapping is on.

Select the Use Alt as meta key (send Escape) check box if you want the Alt key to function as the meta key in the same way as the Escape key. If this option is selected, you can for example press the Alt+X key combination to simulate the Escape followed by X.

Select how you want the numeric keypad on the right-hand side of the regular keyboard to function.

Select Numeric Keypad to use the keypad to enter numbers.

Select Application Keypad to use the keypad for application control (with the keypad keys functioning as cursor keys, Home, End, Page Up, Page Down, Insert and Delete).

Use the Terminal answerback drop-down list to select the same terminal answerback mode that is used by the SSH Tectia Server related to the profile.

Use the Euro character drop-down list to select the support mode for the euro character (€).

The supported options are Windows (where euro is mapped as 0x80) and ISO 8859-15 (euro mapped as 0xA4). Select the same character set that is used by the SSH Tectia Server related to the profile.

Note however that enabling the euro character support will disable the 8-bit terminal control codes.

Detect Windows server from the version string: Secure Shell client and server exchange version strings when setting up the connection. Select this check box to automatically detect Windows servers and use the correct setting for them. For this feature to work correctly, the Windows server has to specify "windows" in its version string.

Select the Unix check box to use Unix compatible line breaks (LF).

Select the Windows check box to use Windows compatible line breaks (CRLF).

Select the Ask before ASCII transfer check box to make SSH Tectia ConnectSecure ask you to specify the server type before each ASCII file transfer.

This list contains the favorite folders you have defined for the current connection profile. You can add, remove, and sort the favorites by using Add..., Delete, and the arrow buttons below the list.

If you are defining a remote favorite that is located on a Windows Secure Shell server, the folder on the Windows server must be specified as follows: /drive/folder/subfolder.

A valid favorite folder definition would be, for example:

/C/Documents and Settings/All Users/Desktop

In the Home Folder field you can enter the directory where any new SFTP connections associated with this profile will start. If you leave the field empty, new connections will use the remote home folder that has been specified for your user account on the remote host computer.