Hi Chris,

2009/11/12 Chris Richardson <[email protected]>:
> I would be happy with any solution I don't really need audio or
> anything fancy my question is actualy more general I want to user the
> sunrays with out a card or anything the main reason I want to pass it
> of to a linux box is so I can do active directory auth easier plus I
> feel the users would find kde4 more fimilar but osol is easier for me
> to install srss on but I can not figure a good way to handle domain
> authing any sugestions or example would help a lot
>

I'll say it again.  Run SRSS on Linux.  It is supported on RHEL 5.

CentOS is binary compatible with RHEL:
http://www.centos.org/

I'm sounding like a broken record now, so I think I'll just lay off this thread.

> Thanks so much for your time and input
>
>
> On 11/11/09, John Francis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>> 2009/11/12 Seth Galitzer <[email protected]>:
>>> I'm currently using Xnest to do this.  It's good enough for a desktop, but
>>> you don't get any local hardware forwarding, so you lose USB and audio.
>>>  If
>>> anybody has some insight on the NomachineX option (which I believe I
>>> looked
>>> at, but forget why I didn't use it), or other ideas, I'd be interested in
>>> them.
>>>
>>
>> For USB, you could get around that by exporting the directory where
>> the mounts happen over NFS.
>>
>> As for the audio issue, you would have to look at playing with one of
>> the network sound systems.  I have never had much fun playing around
>> with those.  Like I was saying, for the richest possible experience,
>> you'd want to see if you can run SRS directly on the host.  There was
>> a thread on this list a while back talking about AMGH which you'd
>> probably find relevant.
>>
>> The more I think of it, SRS itself is the solution to the question
>> that originally started this thread.
>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Seth
>>>
>>> John Francis wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Chris,
>>>>
>>>> There are a number of ways of doing this.
>>>>
>>>> 1. You could use SSH X forwarding.  In this way you would connect only
>>>> individual applications while using the local window manager.  We use
>>>> this to run CD burning software on a Linux machine.
>>>> 2. You could use something like XNest.  This will give you a session
>>>> in a window.
>>>> 3. You could run a VNC server on the Linux box and connect with any vnc
>>>> viewer.
>>>> 4. You could go for something like Nomachine X, which handles things
>>>> like disconnected sessions and multimedia quiet well.
>>>> 5. You could run SRSS directly on the Linux box.  Perhaps setup
>>>> separate FOGs for Solaris, Linux environments.  Might want to play
>>>> with AMGH.  This will probably offer the best user experience.
>>>>
>>>> 2009/11/12 Chris Richardson <[email protected]>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi guys i was wondering if it is possible to make a session connector
>>>>> like the one used for windows to connect to a linux server?
>>>
>>>
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>>
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