Overview
This will be required for most Point of Sale hardware in the Windward Software System Five on Cloud solution.
This setup will only function on a 64 bit Windows operating system.
Setup RDP Virtual Channel and Remote POS Device Manager on alocal machine
- Download RDP-SaaS.zip from the Windward FTP ? ftp://ftp.windward-ca.com/pub/mercurypay/RDP-SAAS.zip
- Extract it to a temporary folder
- Copy the latest version on the WindwardPOS.exe into this folder
- Right click on the Setup.exe and run as administrator
- Restart Windows on the local machine.
- Start the Windward POS Device Manager on the local machine (RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR)
- Navigate to the Remote Desktop tab
- Set the communication mode:
- Enable “Listen - RDP with VPN or workstation has fixed external IP”
- Server: localhost
- Port: 35888
- If these settings are grayed out, Set the Connection Mode to “Connect - Server has fixed external IP”, make the changes to the port and server, then set it back to “Listen - RDP with VPN or workstation has fixed external IP“
- Turn on Enable Remote Desktop Devices
- Right click on Windward POS device manager icon in the local machine system tray to register RDP Virtual Channel
- *** - Need to search for WindwardRDP.dll on local computer. You will be asked for this file when you register the Remote POS Device Manager.
- RDP into the remote machine
- Log into System Five on the Remote Machine
- Navigate to Setup Wizard, Point of Sales Devices, Device Options
- Enable RDP Virtual Channel in Use Point of Sale Manager, Port: 35888