"Ken Mandelberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> We will be running both Solaris and Linux Sunray servers, and want to
> >> give users who sit down at a Sunray a choice of which to use. Is there
> >> any way to do this?
>
> >I don't know if SRSS 3.x changes this, but in the past you just set
>
> >selectAtLogin=true
>
> >in /etc/opt/SUNWut/auth.props and users will be given a list of hosts
> >to choose from before getting a login prompt.
>
> My understanding is that this requires the two servers to be in the
> same failover group.
Yes, as noted in 'man utselect'. Only servers belonging to the
same group as the current host are shown as choices in the selection
selection panel. If you turn on the "remoteSelect" property in
auth.props then the 'utselect' dialogue will offer a text entry box
that allows the user to enter the name of any server instead of just
having to pick from servers within the group.
I recall a proposal to allow additional hosts to be configured into
the selection panel but that hasn't been implemented yet. If you'd
like to see it happen please file an RFE ("Request For Enhancement")
asking for it.
I know of a couple of sites that have written their own Sun Ray
server-chooser to run prior to login, you could always give that
a try. It'd be fairly straightforward to doctor the existing
'utselect' to offer additional hostnames beyond the ones it
discovers for itself by running 'utswitch -l'. One thing to
watch out for is that the Solaris and Linux implementations of
'utselect' are quite different, one's written in 'dtksh' and
the other is in Tcl.
> That seems undesirable for servers running
> different environments like Solaris and Linux.
Not just undesirable, unsupported too. So many odd things can
happen that it's just not worth leading people to believe that
they should try it. Some of those odd things are caused by
SRSS-on-Linux not having some features that SRSS-on-Solaris has.
Once that's been fixed the support story might change but even
if mixed Solaris/Linux groups become supportable from the SRSS
point of view there will still be plenty of room for bad things
to happen. For instance, different versions of Gnome sharing a
single home directory is a recipe for disaster because of
incompatibilities in configuration files from one version to the
next. Of course you can hit those problems without using SRSS
at all.
OttoM.
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ottomeister
Disclaimer: These are my opinions. I do not speak for my employer.
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