Jim,
Are you using SRSS 3.1.1? Which flavor of RHEL are you using (ES or
AS)? I've installed 3.1.1 many time on CentOS which as you know is
identical to RH. There are a couple of workarounds required, but
nothing along the lines of the gdm not being present. Can you walk us
through utinstall from beginning to end?
Regarding the second part, when you first described what you were trying
to solve it sounded like CAM with SGD would meet you needs. It sounded
like you wanted users to be able to access different linux servers
without having SRSS installed on those servers. It can indeed do that.
You can put the Sun Ray Server in kiosk mode and have it run the SGD
client. There would be no solaris login involved. Users would
authenticate to SGD and get a set of applications which could be full
screen linux desktops offering Gnome, KDE, etc.
Jim Kusznir wrote:
Hi all:
I've posted in the past with a form of this problem.
I have several sunrays that I would like to serve up a linux terminal
server (the main login will default to this system all the time...the
user just sits down, wiggles the mouse, and there presented with a login
screen to this linux box). I've heard from many sources that this is
perfectly doable and is being done. I've had people write bits and
pieces as to how its done. Unfortunately after working on it on and off
for over a month now, I'm no closer to making it happen.
Method 1: Install SRSS on the linux box (it is a RHEL4 system -- a
supported configuration)
Problems: numerous bugs in the installer. The current "hard wall" is
that the archive downloaded from sun is missing the GDM rpm (the
directory structure is there, there's just no files in it). Based on
the large number of major bugs in the installer I've had to work around
so far, and now this one, it appears Sun hardly even tests these
releases, if at all... In any case, if anyone knows how to actually
install SRSS on RHEL4, I'd greatly appreciate knowing how and where to
get the working files.
Method 2: Use some sort of desktop roming system such that the sunray's
boot from a SUN server (running Solaris 10) and display a different
(linux) box. I've seen references to SGD and CAM, but the only
information I've found on these seem to have nothing to do with
accomplishing what I've said above: having the thin clients display as
their login this linux terminal ( i.e, it is NOT ok to require the users
to double-login or log into a sun server, then start a program that
opens a window into the other terminal server). Its also NOT ok to
require the users to select "remote server" from the options popup on
the default solaris xdm, and then select the other systems.
Either solution would be fine, but I'm rapidly running out of time, and
may have to ditch the sunray's all together if I can't make this work
very soon.
Thanks!
--Jim
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