Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help page on auto-setting firefox java prefs in clients?

2017-03-09 Thread David Groos
= not to worry, Thanks Alkis! David On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Opening a .jnlp file is like opening a .doc file; it doesn't require any > support from the browser, and it doesn't require any plugins. > It runs locally and natively inside the

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help page on auto-setting firefox java prefs in clients?

2017-03-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
Opening a .jnlp file is like opening a .doc file; it doesn't require any support from the browser, and it doesn't require any plugins. It runs locally and natively inside the OS. After you open it, you can even close the browser. Or you can get it with wget. Or you can store it locally and

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help page on auto-setting firefox java prefs in clients?

2017-03-09 Thread David Groos
Wow! that was close, almost updated my Firefox this morning. Thanks Alkis. Now, I just tried the java app in question (ends in .jnlp) on my mac which has FF v. 52 and get the message "What should Firefox do with this file?" and I click on "Java Web Start" and it starts! Now this seems to

[Ltsp-discuss] Client booting fails at /dev/etherd/e0.1

2017-03-09 Thread Rolf-Werner Eilert
Meanwhile I have a server running with 2 NICs in a VM, and when I start my Intel NUC, it loads and boots, but booting fails: 1. Loading init-rd is very slow, about 1 minute; anything wrong here, or could that be the effect of the VM? 2. At some point when booting, it says Waiting for block

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help page on auto-setting firefox java prefs in clients?

2017-03-09 Thread Alkis Georgopoulos
David yes solutions for this exist for all users, but unfortunately Firefox 52+ no longer supports Java applets at all, so there's no point in even translating from a Greek wiki page to English there. :)

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] help page on auto-setting firefox java prefs in clients?

2017-03-09 Thread richard kweskin
On 2017-03-08 21:52, David Groos wrote: > Hi All, > > Using 14.04 ltsp-pnp fat clients. When a student is browsing/loading > a > java-based sim such as on > https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/energy-forms-and-changes [1] > the client asks a few things: > > * "What should Firefox do