Starting and Connecting a Client to a Presentation Session

Steps are:

1. Define the screen area for slideshow with the 'Drag and Define' function.

2. Locate the folder where the downloaded PowerPoint slides are stored by pressing the 'Locate the directory . . . ' button and then selecting a local directory in the pop-up 'Browse files' window.

3. Set other slideshow options (as appropriate):

   1. Enable/disable the RPPT remote laser pointer emulating function.

   2. 'Auto-reconnect if the server has been rebooted'. Enabling the option allows the client to periodically query the server and automatically connect back to the server, if the connection is broken during a presentation.

4. Connect to a RPPT server:

   1. Enter the DNS name or IP address of the machine where the RPPT server is running.

   2. Enter the port number that the RPPT server is using.

   3. Press the 'Connect' button.

   4. If the server is running on the same machine, you may press 'Default' to retrieve the DNS name for this machine.

5. After a client has connected to an RPPT server, the client operates in an unattended mode by default. It automatically switches between the presentation mode (when a presentation is running) and the setup mode (when a master or the server has disconnected or errors happen. If there is an error, you should fix the problem according to the error message, and manually switch back to the presentation mode by pressing 'Setup complete' button or 'Connect' button).

6. About the option 'Block messages from the server': If the RPPT client detects errors that stop PowerPoint from loading slides in the presentation mode, it will enable this option to block server/master's messages. A user may also enable the option in order to pause watching a presentation.

See figure 5 and 6.