NMS Administration gives you a variety of options that affect the virtual and physical CD drives on client stations. To facilitate intuitive operation, the manner in which a given function is executed always depends on the "location," or the position within the program, from which that function was called. When you right-click on an object (e.g., a client station, virtual CD or drive) in this window, a shortcut menu opens containing the functions that can be applied to that object. The function performed is always dependent on the object selected. This is illustrated in the following examples:

 

Example 1: Ejecting a virtual CD from all virtual CD drives

Say you want to eject a particular virtual CD from all client stations, regardless of which drive letters the different machines are using for that CD. To do this, select the virtual CD in the Image view, right-click on it and select Eject from the shortcut menu:

 

 

Example 2: Locking all virtual CD drives on a client station

In certain situations, it may become necessary to prevent access entirely to virtual CDs on a given station. To do this, select the "Lock" function in the Environment view for the desired client station. Virtual CD NMS locks all virtual CD drives on that client station:

 

 

Other methods can be used to carry out such functions as well; for example, using drag-and-drop, Ribbon commands or the main menu commands. Make sure you select the desired object, so that the function will be carried out correctly.