Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Nielsen
> I meant this to kinda address your very good question. ISTM that > there's been a lot of fragmentation between VNC clients. If AT&T Labs > hadn't closed at the time they had, maybe they would have released > fully-open and GPL VNC server and clients. If that had happened, > surely everyon

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-17 Thread Stroller
On 18 Mar 2010, at 00:24, Adam Nielsen wrote: >>> I would've preferred to use VNC as it's readily available and easy >>> to install, so I'm just wondering why Dell chose a custom protocol >>> instead. >> >> Exceedingly good question! > > And one I suspect we'll never hear the answer to :-) > >> I

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-17 Thread Adam Nielsen
>> I would've preferred to use VNC as it's readily available and easy >> to install, so I'm just wondering why Dell chose a custom protocol >> instead. > > Exceedingly good question! And one I suspect we'll never hear the answer to :-) > I believe that the original VNC project ceased (with t

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Mar 2010, at 15:45, John Lister wrote: >>> I have a DRAC5 but can't use the console redirection because >>> I've never been able to get the browser stuff to work. >> >> Yeah, I just resort to Internet Exploder. I've got IE8 working with a >> DRAC4 - it just takes a lot of fiddling with the

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-17 Thread John Lister
>> I have a DRAC5 but can't use the console redirection because >> I've never been able to get the browser stuff to work. > >Yeah, I just resort to Internet Exploder. I've got IE8 working with a >DRAC4 - it just takes a lot of fiddling with the (in)security settings >in Windows' Internet Opti

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-16 Thread Jefferson Ogata
On 2010-03-16 23:51, Stroller wrote: > I believe that the original VNC project ceased (with the closure of > AT&T Laboratories Cambridge) without encryption as a feature. I have > always felt this a shame, as there seems to be some fragmentation of > projects now. Some of the original develop

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-16 Thread Stroller
On 16 Mar 2010, at 23:14, Adam Nielsen wrote: > ... I have a DRAC5 but can't use the console redirection because > I've never been able to get the browser stuff to work. Yeah, I just resort to Internet Exploder. I've got IE8 working with a DRAC4 - it just takes a lot of fiddling with the (in)

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-16 Thread Adam Nielsen
Sorry, perhaps I should've been clearer - I have a DRAC5 but can't use the console redirection because I've never been able to get the browser stuff to work. There is a telnet/SSH client but it doesn't handle screen updates properly so you can't see the output properly. I would've preferred to

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-16 Thread Stroller
t;> boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of gagan_shres...@dell.com >>> Sent: 11 March 2010 13:42 >>> To: robin-li...@robinbowes.com; linux-powere...@lists.us.dell.com >>> Subject: RE: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat >>> >>> Hi Nic

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-16 Thread Adam Nielsen
p1057972 > > Thanks, > Gagan > > -Original Message- > From: Nick Lunt [mailto:nick.l...@patech-solutions.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:52 PM > To: Shrestha, Gagan; robin-li...@robinbowes.com; linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: RE: DRAC 5 console with Firefo

RE: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-11 Thread Gagan_Shrestha
: Shrestha, Gagan; robin-li...@robinbowes.com; linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: RE: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat Hi > -Original Message- > From: linux-poweredge-boun...@dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge- > boun...@dell.com] On Behalf Of gagan_shres...@dell.com > Sent: 1

RE: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-11 Thread Nick Lunt
f Robin Bowes > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 6:45 PM > To: linux-poweredge-Lists > Subject: Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat > > On 11/03/10 12:53, Nick Lunt wrote: > > Hi > > > > DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat keeps saying I need

RE: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-11 Thread Gagan_Shrestha
: Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat On 11/03/10 12:53, Nick Lunt wrote: > Hi > > DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat keeps saying I need to > install the console re-direction plugin. I click yes, install it, > restart firefox, but it says I need to install

Re: DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-11 Thread Robin Bowes
On 11/03/10 12:53, Nick Lunt wrote: > Hi > > DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat keeps saying I need to > install the console re-direction plugin. I click yes, install it, > restart firefox, but it says I need to install the console re-direction > plugin again. >

DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat

2010-03-11 Thread Nick Lunt
Hi DRAC 5 console with Firefox 3.0.5 on Red Hat keeps saying I need to install the console re-direction plugin. I click yes, install it, restart firefox, but it says I need to install the console re-direction plugin again. Firmware Version= 1.45 Firmware Build = 09.01.16 Last