>>>>> On Thu, 04 Jan 2007 12:25:31 -0500, Bob Doolittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> If users use cards, you can use AMGH to direct all pseudo
> (non-card) tokens to the CAM FOG when the card is removed.
Craig made a similar suggestion in his initial set of ideas. The
difficulty here is that we don't want students hotdesking and leaving
disconnected/idle sessions on the servers. I don't know of a way to
use cards without allowing hotdesking.
thanks,
-tom
> Thomas L Baca wrote:
>> We are very interested in doing the three-way CAM chooser, utswitching
>> to Solaris and Linux FOGs (and uttsc to Windows TS). Any ideas about
>> how we can solve the utswitch-back-to-the-CAM-FOG-on-logout problem?
>>
>> thanks,
>> -tom
>>
>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:16:30 -0700, Craig Bender <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
>>>>>>>
>>
>> > Not necessarily. Let me think about it. I wonder if we can do
>> > something on logout to utswitch it back...
>>
>> > Thomas L Baca wrote:
>> >> Thanks for the response! This is a great starting point for us.
>> >>
>> >> One related issue for us is that, being at the university, we have
>> >> *lots* of users for relatively few DTU's. So, I am reluctant to
>> >> support hotdesking for student users because of the likelihood of
>> >> many, many idle sessions taking too many resources on the servers.
>> >>
>> >> My IT support team *does* use card-based hotdesking to great
>> >> advantage, and I may even consider opening that to
>> >> faculty/instructors.
>> >>
>> >> So, does not supporting hotdesking for students throw a monkey wrench
>> >> into the works?
>> >>
>> >> thanks,
>> >> -tom
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>>>>> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:52:44 -0700, Craig Bender <[EMAIL
PROTECTED]> said:
>> >>>>>>>
>> >>
>> >> > Yes. It could be done a few ways.
>> >> > Have two or three FOG's/or stand alone servers, but the DTU's only
being
>> >> > directed to the one FOG/server
>> >>
>> >> > You could enable NSCM and non-card users would get solaris. You
could
>> >> > customize the S10 artwork on the log in screen to direct users to
insert
>> >> > card for linux or windows.
>> >>
>> >> > Card users would get CAM that displayed a chooser application that
>> >> > offers windows, linux
>> >>
>> >> > If they click linux, it utswitch to the linux fog/server, if
windows run
>> >> > uttsc locally and connect to a terminal server.
>> >>
>> >> > You could then use AMGH to return the DTU's to the primary fog.
>> >>
>> >> > Or you could do a chooser that offers three applications. and
>> >> > utswitches over to the linux or solaris servers.
>> >>
>> >> > It would be best to do that with cards so you could use AMGH to
return
>> >> > the DTU back to it's home server. Or you could just instruct the
users
>> >> > to power cycle the Sun Ray when the logout.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > Thomas L Baca wrote:
>> >> >> Suppose you had some of each:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Windows Terminal servers
>> >> >> Solaris Sun Ray servers
>> >> >> Linux Sun Ray servers
>> >> >>
>> >> >> ...and wanted to present a choice to users at the dtu startup
screen,
>> >> >> before login (e.g., with CAM), as to which system they wanted to
>> >> >> connect to initially. Is it possible?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I'm in a university environment and want to give easy access to
each
>> >> >> of those operating environments without the Windows user having to
>> >> >> know how to navigate a Unix/Linux environment, even briefly, and
>> >> >> vice-versa.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> For our purposes this sort of *simple* universal terminal
>> >> >> configuration would be ideal.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Thanks for any ideas, hints, etc.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> -tom
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