hi..
we have installed Spectra on a Solaris 7 box with Netscape LDAP and Sybase
too, everything seems to work fine for us, we even have an application built
on Spectra, yes, i do agreed the installation on Solaris version of
MM/Allaire product sometime might be misleading when you read it from the
manual, and trust me, i have scream for help when I installed spectra for
the 1st time. i guess MM/Allaire just put too much effort on Windows. I get
the same answer too when i asked for help previous : "try the forum"
if you need some help, mail me off the list, may be i can share some of my
painful experience with you
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From: "Rion D'Luz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Spectra-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:46 AM
Subject: Any Solaris success stories out there?
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> Hello All:
> Has anyone got a good, reliable, working Solaris system up and running?
> I'm trying to run CF4.5/Spectra1.5, NS Fasttrack, NSLdap, Sybase ASE
> to get a system running. I've installed all the Solaris hot fixes.
> The install is o.k., the various servers are talking fine. BUT.....
> I've had nothing but grief , and judging from Allaire's response more
grief to
> come.
>
> Netscape clients break on the webtop, Xapp fails on SEARCHing
collections,
> Nothing I install seems to work out of the box, template paths are all
> windows oriented. The list goes on and on.
>
> MM assistance arrived with this:
> > I wanted to let you know of some support options that you could take to>
acheive some answers on your issues.
> >
> > The Spectra Forums is an excellent source of information, suggestions,
and
> > discussions with Macromedia Support Engineers. This is a free option to
> > take for your open issues.
> > http://www.allaire.com/support/forums/
> Have been there and read them all. They are almost exclusively window
> centric. For instance, when creating an object, I'm prompted for the
> 'ewebedit' application. First, ewebedit.exe does not exist under my
> document root tree:
> /opt/netscape/server4/web/allaire/spectra/ewebeditpro/
> The '.exe' file simply does not exist and furthermore i fail to see the
> relevance since i'm running a netscape client on a linux box workstation
> connected to a Solaris host. Secondly I'm irked that the application is
bundled
> into Spectra with those kind of dependancies. Its one thing for a sample
> application, Restorenet, or Xapp for that matter, to require things that
are
> platform based. But for macromedia
> to sell a product that they claim is for Solaris and have so much latent
> window's code that even the plp paths are d:\somedir\somefile.xxx
> is misleading at best. To claim that Spectra runs on unix and then find
> out that not only does a Netscape client break the webtop when trying to
> create an application, type, or property but that I'm forced to use an
> IEexplorer client for the webtop to even function correctly. Try to
migrate a
> CODB using netscape. This is horrendous, and is hardly addressed in the
forums.
> What is addressed in the KB's are things that have fixes, not those for
which
> nobody has a solution or even a clue.
>
> Allaire is telling me that I should be forking out $ on a per call basis
for
> support and I'm of the mind that this Application, for solaris, is not
ready
> for prime time. I got my company to purchase Easysoft's ODBC-ODBC
> bridge. The application installed fine, worked fine out of the box. But
> we had some difficutly getting connected to a particular DB host. So
> we paid for tech support. That's the way I feel things should work.
> But Allaire seems to think that I'm breaking the system when all i'm
> doing is following what's been laid out in their reference manuals and
> watching it blow up.
>
> If I hadn't gotten my company so committed, and if we
> weren't already predominantely CF oriented (now that it runs on a linux
> cluster) I'd scrap the entire thing.
> Sincerely
> Another Crash Test Dummy
>
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