Andreas,
I use Solaris, XP, Mac, and linux just fine.
I strongly suggest you just fire up a browser and point at your SGD
server, click 'login'. If on a Mac, make sure you have X11 installed first.
There is some confusion around the terminology used to describe the
client. Bottom line is, today the "browser client" is just an initial
page with a small Java applet that does the initial login then downloads
a native component into the client's temporary cache. The reason the
other clients have gone away is basically as this primary client is for
the most part a native client.
Let us know how you get on.
Curtis.
Andreas Höschler wrote:
Hi Martin,
after having successfully used SGD 4.2 for a while I just downloaded
and
installed SGD 4.4 on a AMD machine running Solaris 10 11/06.
Installation worked like a charm, no additional (security) package(s)
required. However, it does not work at all (for me). I cannot connect,
neither from a Mac, nor from Solaris SPARC nor from Windows. Since a
native client for Mac OSX is no longer available for the Mac :-(, I
downloaded the native client for Solaris SPARC, but it seems this
ttatcc
does nothing more than starting a web browser with the URL of the
tarantella server!!??
One of the messages about 4.4 mentioned:
"The 4.40 release (yesterday's) no longer supports *any* native client"
Does that perhaps relate to your problems?
I read that but I am not sure what that means. When connecting to the
greeting page of a SGD 4.4 server there still is an entry for
"Installing the Sun Secure Global Desktop Client". The MacOSX row now
shows "Not supported" but there seems to be one for Soalris, Linux and
Windows. I only tried the Solaris Sparc client which actually is a
tool named ttattc or similar. This also behaves similar to the old
one at first but after entering the location it simply forwards that
to the default web browser. I read something about a new feature that
allows to integrate the configured SGD apps into the start menu of
GNOME (to avoid the browser road). However, we are using Window Maker
(for very good reasons). We have a dock but no start menu!!?? I wonder
how SGD is supposed to integrate into that or any other window manager
with a slightly different philosophy.
We never accessed the SGD server via a browser since this takes far
too long for daily usage. Only the native client gave us quick access
to the SGD apps. It seems we are hosed now! Since I wasn't able to
connect to the server either way ("Failed to install Tarantella Client
Component") I finally did "tarantella uninstall -purge" and
reinstalled SGD 4.2. :-(
However, if anybody got this new version to work, may be even in a
GNOME-free environment I would be very interested to hear how.
Thanks,
Andreas
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