>>>>> On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:52:50 -0500, Ken Mandelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> said:
> 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 a similar thing, except that Linux is yet to come, and we
don't have the "skip" option. We also have a kiosk-mode web browser
as an option on our CAM chooser.
> 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).
Why not separate failover groups for Solaris and Linux?
> 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.
Wouldn't having separate FOGs for Solaris and Linux take care of this?
> To makes things worse, there is no clean way to disconnect from
> the Linux login gui without rebooting the Sunray.
That is one of our most annoying problems, except that it is Solaris
dtlogin instead of Linux. But as I mentioned, Linux is on our
roadmap. We have logout script action to return the dtu to the CAM
FOG, but that requires a login and logout. We are right now looking
for some kind of dtlogin timeout...
> 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.
I agree. We are close to being able to hack our own way there, but it
does seem like a really natural use case. Maybe it just looks that
way to us because we're at .edu's... :-)
cheers,
-tom
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Thomas L. Baca [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Manager, Information Technology (928) 523-2088
College of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Northern Arizona University
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