>From: ottomeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >I'm not sure what this feature would look like. The whole >notion of a Sun Ray host group (aka "failover group") is >that it doesn't matter which machine provides the user's >desktop. If that's not true then the machines don't belong >in a group. > >Can you give an example of how you would want this >feature to behave?
Our needs may be different than the originator of this thread, but I can tell you what we want and what we have done.
We want our Sunray users to see a startup GUI that gives them the choice of Solaris, Linux, and Windows, with a per user settable default that skips the GUI.
We have implemented this by hacking and leveraging on utselect/utswitch with Solaris and Linux sunray servers in the same failover group (windows via uttsc from one of the sunray servers).
It works reasonably, with a couple of issues. The most fundamental is that we really don't want failover. Unfortunately depending on load and timing, a user sometimes gets failed over to the wrong server. To makes things worse, there is no clean way to disconnect from the Linux login gui without rebooting the Sunray.
It would seem to me that other organizations would also like to use sunray appliances in this way, and it would be nice to have Sun support for it.
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