Sun Ray device sharing among DTU

Hi All,
Anyone has experience on how to share attached device of a DTU among other DTUs in the same LAN? or perhaps some pointers if any? Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Jonathan

I tried getting my iphone to connect up. It is recognized but
there is some kind of error so it doesn't get seen my itunesIt's because iPhone USB device appear as isochronous USB device and Sun Ray Connector USBR feature doesn't support isochronous devices yet. I am not sure if blackberry is also an isochronous USB device or not.

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I have 2 DTU, one has a 17" screen with a resolution of 1280x1024 and the other DTU has a 24" screen with a 1900x1200 resolution attached. The setting of the Sun Ray server is configured only that registrated cards, can make an kiosksession to VMware View 4.6.
When I start the DTU's, there is nothing wrong. The correct screen resolution is displayed on the screen for both DTU's. When I put a smart card into the DTU that has a 17" attached, it's indicates the correct resolution. The problem starts when I hotdesk to the other DTU with the 24" attached to, the session what was builded on the 17" will be showed on the 24". So the the resolution is 1280x1024. With this action there's nothing wrong, because the kiosksession is made on the 17" and no disconnection is made, so this is a correct resolution at this point. When I pull the card out of the 24" DTU, the screenresolution will be still at 1280x1024. It's looks like the setting will be saved on the DTU. Only a restart of a DTU will turn back the good resolution.
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the DTU's are Sun Ray 3 Plus, it doesn't matter which DTU's I place, the problems seems like that the DTU will save the last screen resolution. I got 300 of these DTU's and try a lot of them, but still the same issue.
Note: with each case explained in this thread, the kiosksession will be started at first time, the kiosksession is not builded yet or has been disconnected.
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utresadm -a -c MAC -t default 1280x1024@60 ... and then this is nailed, whatever you do with this box. Very effective especially for beamers ...
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regards, thomas

SRS4.1/VDI3.0 Soalris can detect printer forworded form Sun Ray DTU

Dear all ,
i need some help on the blow please:
environment brief:
i have VM cluster of 8 Servers sun blade 6240 , over this pool of servers there is Virtually 4 VDI 3.0/SRS4.1 servers and pool of windows XP virtual machines , and around 70 Sun Ray 270 DTUs.
all the VDI/SRS servers are Solaris 10 10/08 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
i wanted to configure USB HP LaserJet 2300 Series PCL 6 printer connected to one of the DTUs ,
So i did the following :
on solaris
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp14 /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.<DTU MAC Addres>/dev/printers/Hewlett-Packard00DP3087F
/usr/bin/enable hp14
/user/sbin/accept hp14
then to connect the printer to windows
/opt/SUWuttsc/bin/uttsc -r printer:hp14="HP LaserJet 2300 Serise PCL 6"
the problem is the following the printer gets defined in windows and windows sends the request to the Solaris Sunray server nicely but i cant print .
the problem in solaris i cant make solaris print any thing on the printer
in etc/lp/hp14 i found the follwoing the faultMessege file :
Failed to open the printer port. (No such device)
also when i try to add the printer from the Solaris print manger it adds it successfully but when i double click on it to show its properties it show the printer port is empty even thwo it exists in the lp/etc/hp14/configuration file and when try to change the printer type for example it give java null point exception.
i tried another printer diffrent model but it is still the same error message
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Dear all ,
i need some help on the blow please:
environment brief:
i have VM cluster of 8 Servers sun blade 6240 , over this pool of servers there is Virtually 4 VDI 3.0/SRS4.1 servers and pool of windows XP virtual machines , and around 70 Sun Ray 270 DTUs.
all the VDI/SRS servers are Solaris 10 10/08 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
i wanted to configure USB HP LaserJet 2300 Series PCL 6 printer connected to one of the DTUs ,
So i did the following :
on solaris
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp14 /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.<DTU MAC Addres>/dev/printers/Hewlett-Packard00DP3087F
/usr/bin/enable hp14
/user/sbin/accept hp14
then to connect the printer to windows
/opt/SUWuttsc/bin/uttsc -r printer:hp14="HP LaserJet 2300 Serise PCL 6"
the problem is the following the printer gets defined in windows and windows sends the request to the Solaris Sunray server nicely but i cant print .
the problem in solaris i cant make solaris print any thing on the printer
in etc/lp/hp14 i found the follwoing the faultMessege file :
Failed to open the printer port. (No such device)
also when i try to add the printer from the Solaris print manger it adds it successfully but when i double click on it to show its properties it show the printer port is empty even thwo it exists in the lp/etc/hp14/configuration file and when try to change the printer type for example it give java null point exception.
i tried another printer diffrent model but it is still the same error message
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VDI3.0/SRS4.1 Soalris can detect printer forworded form Sun Ray DTU

Dear all ,
i need some help on the blow please:
environment brief:
i have VM cluster of 8 Servers sun blade 6240 , over this pool of servers there is Virtually 4 VDI 3.0/SRS4.1 servers and pool of windows XP virtual machines , and around 70 Sun Ray 270 DTUs.
all the VDI/SRS servers are Solaris 10 10/08 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
i wanted to configure USB HP LaserJet 2300 Series PCL 6 printer connected to one of the DTUs ,
So i did the following :
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/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp14 /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.<DTU MAC Addres>/dev/printers/Hewlett-Packard00DP3087F
/usr/bin/enable hp14
/user/sbin/accept hp14
then to connect the printer to windows
/opt/SUWuttsc/bin/uttsc -r printer:hp14="HP LaserJet 2300 Serise PCL 6"
the problem is the following the printer gets defined in windows and windows sends the request to the Solaris Sunray server nicely but i cant print .
the problem in solaris i cant make solaris print any thing on the printer
in etc/lp/hp14 i found the follwoing the faultMessege file :
Failed to open the printer port. (No such device)
also when i try to add the printer from the Solaris print manger it adds it successfully but when i double click on it to show its properties it show the printer port is empty even thwo it exists in the lp/etc/hp14/configuration file and when try to change the printer type for example it give java null point exception.
i tried another printer diffrent model but it is still the same error message
i appreciate any help with this.

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i need some help on the blow please:
environment brief:
i have VM cluster of 8 Servers sun blade 6240 , over this pool of servers there is Virtually 4 VDI 3.0/SRS4.1 servers and pool of windows XP virtual machines , and around 70 Sun Ray 270 DTUs.
all the VDI/SRS servers are Solaris 10 10/08 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
i wanted to configure USB HP LaserJet 2300 Series PCL 6 printer connected to one of the DTUs ,
So i did the following :
on solaris
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp14 /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.<DTU MAC Addres>/dev/printers/Hewlett-Packard00DP3087F
/usr/bin/enable hp14
/user/sbin/accept hp14
then to connect the printer to windows
/opt/SUWuttsc/bin/uttsc -r printer:hp14="HP LaserJet 2300 Serise PCL 6"
the problem is the following the printer gets defined in windows and windows sends the request to the Solaris Sunray server nicely but i cant print .
the problem in solaris i cant make solaris print any thing on the printer
in etc/lp/hp14 i found the follwoing the faultMessege file :
Failed to open the printer port. (No such device)
also when i try to add the printer from the Solaris print manger it adds it successfully but when i double click on it to show its properties it show the printer port is empty even thwo it exists in the lp/etc/hp14/configuration file and when try to change the printer type for example it give java null point exception.
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Soalris can detect printer forworded form Sun Ray DTU

Dear all ,
i need some help on the blow please:
environment brief:
i have VM cluster of 8 Servers sun blade 6240 , over this pool of servers there is Virtually 4 VDI 3.0/SRS4.1 servers and pool of windows XP virtual machines , and around 70 Sun Ray 270 DTUs.
all the VDI/SRS servers are Solaris 10 10/08 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
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on solaris
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp14 /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.<DTU MAC Addres>/dev/printers/Hewlett-Packard00DP3087F
/usr/bin/enable hp14
/user/sbin/accept hp14
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/opt/SUWuttsc/bin/uttsc -r printer:hp14="HP LaserJet 2300 Serise PCL 6"
the problem is the following the printer gets defined in windows and windows sends the request to the Solaris Sunray server nicely but i cant print .
the problem in solaris i cant make solaris print any thing on the printer
in etc/lp/hp14 i found the follwoing the faultMessege file :
Failed to open the printer port. (No such device)
also when i try to add the printer from the Solaris print manger it adds it successfully but when i double click on it to show its properties it show the printer port is empty even thwo it exists in the lp/etc/hp14/configuration file and when try to change the printer type for example it give java null point exception.
i tried another printer diffrent model but it is still the same error message
i appreciate any help with this.

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i need some help on the blow please:
environment brief:
i have VM cluster of 8 Servers sun blade 6240 , over this pool of servers there is Virtually 4 VDI 3.0/SRS4.1 servers and pool of windows XP virtual machines , and around 70 Sun Ray 270 DTUs.
all the VDI/SRS servers are Solaris 10 10/08 Generic_139556-08 i86pc i386 i86pc
i wanted to configure USB HP LaserJet 2300 Series PCL 6 printer connected to one of the DTUs ,
So i did the following :
on solaris
/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p hp14 /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.<DTU MAC Addres>/dev/printers/Hewlett-Packard00DP3087F
/usr/bin/enable hp14
/user/sbin/accept hp14
then to connect the printer to windows
/opt/SUWuttsc/bin/uttsc -r printer:hp14="HP LaserJet 2300 Serise PCL 6"
the problem is the following the printer gets defined in windows and windows sends the request to the Solaris Sunray server nicely but i cant print .
the problem in solaris i cant make solaris print any thing on the printer
in etc/lp/hp14 i found the follwoing the faultMessege file :
Failed to open the printer port. (No such device)
also when i try to add the printer from the Solaris print manger it adds it successfully but when i double click on it to show its properties it show the printer port is empty even thwo it exists in the lp/etc/hp14/configuration file and when try to change the printer type for example it give java null point exception.
i tried another printer diffrent model but it is still the same error message
i appreciate any help with this.

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