Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote:
Dear all
We have a lab with ~20 SunRays feeding off a Solaris 10 x86 machine running
srss 3.1 in kiosk mode.
Our users would like to be able to view special image types (tiff etc) ont he
web that are not natively supported by firefox.
We're trying to install the necessary plugin (plugger) and we've successfully
done so on the sunray server. I.e. running firefox locally on the sunray
server one can use the plugin and view tiff images. But the SunRay clients do
not recognize the plugin.
Do I need to install it somewhere in the pseudo-filesystem used by SunRays
under /var/opt/SUNWbb/root/ ?
The only relevant file I see in there (e.g. for user utcu0)
is: /var/opt/SUNWbb/root/home/utcu0/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but its
format seems to suggest it's not human-editable...
Thank you for any suggestions!
Note for Brad:
[ I dont think all this below is described in one sweep anyware ,
This procedure should be on the Thin Think Blog or the next
version of the SRS manuals ,
//Lars ]
The problem is not the plugin , but that the Users Firefox environment
is not configured. The plugins is to be installed in the usual firefox
"plugins" directory.
I believe that you need to setup or edit your CAM firefox Prototype
Firefox files can be stored anyware in the file system, I assume below
the you have installed firefox binaries in /opt/sfw/lib/firefox........
When you run in CAM ( Kiosk ) mode. You always wipe the Kiosk
clean when you exit
a " crittical " application. That means that your
.mozilla/firefox/*default directory
is lost every time a new user restarts the kiosk.
In order to save state (like a firefox mimeTypes.rdf file ) between
sessions you need a
Prototype.
The prototypes live in /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes
What you need to do is to create a directory in
/var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes with the same name/Label as
the CAM application , presumably "firefox" in your case.
Start a CAM session verify that you are USER utcu0
Start firefox and initialize all defaults to your likeing
Open all files that you need to automate . Run all media types that
you wish to
program and select to " always Open media X with App Y" , Do NOT Exit
FIREFOX.
From another terminal : Copy the whole
/var/opt/SUNWbb/root/home/utcu0/.mozilla/* hierarchy
to /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla
BEFORE YOU EXIT FIREFOX on the first screen.
Then you rename
/var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/*.default
to something like
/var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/*.CAM
Make sure that the whole hierarchy ( including dot-files ) is set
to read-only and owned by root:root so no-one
can change the files in /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/
Then you edit your CAM application firefox parameters so that the
commandline is
/opt/sfw/bin/firefox -P CAM
This will convince firefox to load your now stored and canned
firefox profile.
This will save all your edits into a Prototype that from now will
be replicated to any/all CAM users.
Then Cold-Restart the CAM .
Why do you need to do this ?
Mainly because you want to customize the mimeTypes.rdf file and
prefs.js file These files are saved for each user.
root's mimeType.rdf file is saved in /.mozilla , not in the
/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/default/profile/mimeTypes.rdf.
Also it is likely that you dont want the same defaults for Kiosks
as for authenticated users. So you will probably
want different defaults in
/opt/sfw/lib/firefox/default/profile/mimeTypes.rdf as compared to
/var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/*.CAM/profile/mimeTypes.rdf
Even though the mimeTypes.rdf file is an XML style thing it's not
easy to edit by hand.
You almost have to copy the file as it comes out after a firefox session.
//Lars
_______________________________________________
SunRay-Users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
