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Glossary

Term Meaning
Remotle The Computle app that connects you to your workstation. Shown as Computle (Remotle) on Windows, Mac and Linux, and Computle on iPad and iPhone.
Workstation The computer you connect to. Remotle also calls it your machine or your Computle machine.
Device The computer, tablet or phone you connect from.
Remotle host The software on a workstation that Remotle connects to.
Organisation Your company’s account with Computle.
Administrator A person in your organisation who manages workstations, users and settings in the Computle portal.
Computle portal https://portal.computle.com, where administrators manage workstations and users.
Session The time you are connected to your workstation.
Session menu The menu opened with F2 or the half circle at the top of the screen.
Relay A Computle server that forwards encrypted session traffic when your device cannot reach the workstation directly.
Rendezvous The Computle service that introduces your device to your workstation at the start of a session.
STUN A standard way for a device to learn its public network address. Remotle uses it to find a direct path.
Support Code A code in Settings, Diagnostics that identifies your device to support.
Stable, Beta Update channels. Stable is the current release. Beta receives new features first.
Kiosk terminal A Windows, Mac or Linux computer that starts straight into Remotle, for shared desks.
Single Sign-On Signs you in to Windows on your workstation with your Microsoft account when you connect.
Take over, Ask to share The choices when you connect to a workstation that is in use on another device.