
MorphoAccess® SIGMA Family Administrator Guide
Connecting the Terminal to a PC
2017_2000025464-v03
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Connection through a LAN
Description
The administrator can also connect the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Family terminal to a PC via Local
Area Network (LAN) by specifying a unique IP address or host name.
The IP address could be static or dynamically assigned by the DHCP server in the network. If the
administrator chooses to specify the host name of the terminal as its unique identifier, then in
that case the ‘terminal name’ must be added to the DNS server database by the network
administrator.
Figure 4:
Connection through LAN
The administrator is recommended to connect MorphoAccess® SIGMA Family terminals on a
dedicated network in order to reduce possibilities of fraudulent access to the configuration of
the terminal. It is advised to contact the network administrator for more information on LAN
security strategies.
Before the administrator connects the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Family terminal to a LAN, it is
necessary to configure the LAN parameters into the terminal. The values of these parameters
are to be provided and/or approved by the network administrator.
LAN with DNS Server
When a DNS server is available in the LAN, the PC can request the connection to the
MorphoAccess® SIGMA Family terminal by using its host name instead of its IP address.
The network administrator must add the MorphoAccess® SIGMA Family terminal host name to
the DNS server database, otherwise a TCP open session request using the terminal’s hostname
will fail.