Sun Ray licensing?

I have been using and advocating Sun Ray installations since they were introduced years ago.
I finally won over enough people to get preliminary approval for a widespread deployment in our company. For the past two months I have been calling Oracle Sales once or twice a week to find out what it will cost. I get the same thing every time--What is your budget? We'll have someone call you.
I've tried VARs and they throw their hands up at the mention of Oracle and start talking to me about other vendors solutions. How do I actually get someone to give me a quote and take my money before management spends it on some Windows based thin client?

So I calculate with
- 300 € for Sun Ray 3 incl. Software license excl. Hardware Maintainence (which would add another 12 % around 24 €)
- 500 € for Sun Ray 3 plus incl. Software license excl. Hardware Maintainence (which would add another 12 % around 48 €)
for the first year,
number of devices * 100 €
for the following years.
If you do not run the Sun Ray Server on Oracle Hardware you need to add
800 € / CPU for small machines (1-4) or
1600 € / CPU for large boxes (5+)
per year
for being entitled to run solaris on it.
regards, thomas

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I have no issue in connecting to other Windows server (say windows-02) only to this particular Windows server (windows-01). Surprisingly, I have no problem 'uttsc'-ing to windows-01 using pre-existing Sun Ray 4. Any idea why and how to resolve this?
Appreciate anyone who responds. Thanks.
Regards,
Jonathan

What Terminal Server license model are you using? And what does Windows Terminal Server License Manger show for number of licenses in use and availble?

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Can someone direct me to a document or explain how I can configure the Sun Ray Software to allow me the ability to print to a USB printer attached to a Sun Ray 2 thin client. I believe this is possibele using the USB redirection utility but only when connecting to Windows XP desktops. I see it's being done when connecting to Windows 2003 Terminal Server. Any help or info on this would be great.
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Here is a repost of my article on the sun-ray users mailing list.
Lars Tunkrans
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:34:47 -0800
This article is for using Solaris as the Sun Ray server.
I have used a Sun-Ray local USB attached printer in two ways.
Precondition1: The printer was using Postscript rendering.
The printer had its own rendering engine.
The printer was NOT a dumb windows-driver dependant printer.
Precondition2 the user logging on needs to have the printer administrator RBAC role to be allowed
to create /destroy printqueues.
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Set up a solaris printqueue with
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This will use the solaris lpfilter mechanism to convert the printdata to postcscript protocoll.
2) Printing from Windows.
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lpadmin -p printername -v " sunray devicename" -m printermodel
Set up the windows printer with a working windows Postscript driver.
The windows included hplaserjet-postscript driver works. for a hplaserjet printer.
or any printer emulating the HPlaserjet like many Xerox printers do,
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"pass-though" the Solaris spooler without change.
So if you need to print from both the SR server and the windows PC you need to define two spooler queues for each printer. Below are two scripts that have existed in various versions on sun-rays.org that I enhanced a bit and ran from the VDI superstructure to make it do what I wanted. For windows printing you then need to pass the printername as an argument to the "uttsc" startup command.
uttsc ......... -r printer $printername .........
# the SCRIPT "set-printer.sh" for printing from a unix desktop
#!/bin/sh
MACAddr=`ls -l $UTDEVROOT | sed 's/.*\.//'`
PrinterName=$MACAddr
PrinterPath=`ls /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.$MACAddr/dev/printers/* 2>/dev/null|head -1`
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_default $PrinterName
Message="Current Printer: $PrinterName"
else
Message="No printer assigned"
fi
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if [ -d /etc/lp/printers/$PrinterName ]; then
if [ -z "$PrinterPath" ]; then
pfexec /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x $PrinterName
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pfexec /usr/bin/enable $PrinterName
pfexec /usr/sbin/accept $PrinterName
fi
zenity --info text="$Message"
# "set-printer.sh" script for Passthrough printing from a windows PC.
#!/bin/sh
MACAddr=`ls -l $UTDEVROOT | sed 's/.*\.//'`
PrinterName=$MACAddr
PrinterPath=`ls /tmp/SUNWut/units/IEEE802.$MACAddr/dev/printers/* 2>/dev/null|head -1`
if [ -n "$PrinterPath" ] ; then
cat <<.>$HOME/.printers
_default $PrinterName
Message="Current Printer: $PrinterName"
else
Message="No printer assigned"
fi
# Add or remove the printer to the Solaris spooler (choose only the first printer)
if [ -d /etc/lp/printers/$PrinterName ]; then
if [ -z "$PrinterPath" ]; then
pfexec /usr/sbin/lpadmin -x $PrinterName
fi
else
pfexec /usr/sbin/lpadmin -p $PrinterName -v $PrinterPath -A none -o media=A4 -o banner=never -I any -u allow:all
pfexec /usr/bin/enable $PrinterName
pfexec /usr/sbin/accept $PrinterName
fi
zenity --info text="$Message"
//Lars
Edited by: ltuarn on Aug 28, 2010 10:32 AM

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I have also a lot of fun with different screens, so I walk the "hardwired" mostly when I run into my screen does not look like correctly.
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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Sun Ray workstations and Server Win2K.

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Florent.

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1. Sun Ray 5 (Sun Ray 4.2)
2. SRWC 2.2
3. Solaris 10 u9 X86 on two x2200
4. Terminal Server on Win2K3 R2 Standard x64 Edition SP2
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<begin snip>
DTSOURCEPROFILE=true
/opt/SUNWuttsc/bin/uttsc -b -m -O -u uname 192.168.100.29
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<end snip>
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Mar 16 09:38:31 sunraya Sun Ray Connector proxy:[12941]: [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown
. . . . Using cron, I reset the Sun Ray service twice a day on both servers at 7AM and 7PM . . .
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# This is to restart SunRay 5 service due to
# what I think may be a memory leak that disconnects
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I have done the same setup with SunRay 170.
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