Sunray Deficiencies

hi,
i hope this is an ok place to post this - u couldnt find a sunray forum at Sun.
from my experience so far i've come across the following deficiencies with the sunray architecture/software that tend
to impede it's widespread acceptance -
(a) no support for the common usb devices out there, i.e. a school was given a batch of
usb scanners as a gift but couldn't use them - of course the point was raised if they were a
windows lab they would be able to.
is there a list of usb devices supported by sunrays? in particular are there any scanners and digital cameras and some
basic capture software that works with the sunrays?
(b) pretty much only networked postscript or PCL (with some extra ghostcript setup if i remember correctly)
are easily compatible.
(c) is there an evolution binary package available for solaris 8/9/gnome in a sunray environment that works?
a working bianry of the evolution connector with sunone calendar?
(d) to support a large couple of labs where flash is used extensively (which in schoosl for example it is)
places a huge load on the sunray architetcure so it becomes too expensive to buy the server power required.
(e) if they absolutely do want to run windows apps then they have to fork for a windows terminal server
(hence increasing cost to deploy). when i worked at universities, teaching staff would often insist on
windows apps being made available to common use laboratories.
(f) some clients complain that solaris skills are too hard to gain and source staff "cheaply enough that know"
compared to windows. personally i dont agree
(anyone who knows linux for example should be able to pikcup learn solaris).
just some problems i've noticed with the architecture that i've posted here because i'm interested in
hearing other people's experiences (perhaps there are answers to these questiosn i just wasn't aware of) :)
don't get me wrong overall i think it's a great system - just a few niggles/problems that i see stopping it's
widespread adoption in certain environments.

There are no agents for the SunRay software as far as I know. However, that's not to say you can't create a highly available architecture for SunRay users.
Obviously, internally we use SunRays (I'm writing this from a SunRay at home) and we have highly available infrastructure. I think the general approach is to have highly available home directories and then mount those onto one or more SunRay servers. If a SunRay server fails, the users can log onto another SunRay server.
There might be an architecture whitepaper somewhere - see if there are any SunRay forums (fora) and ask there.
Regards,
Tim
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As far as I know: no for SRSS on Sparc. I don't know
SRSS on x86, but I heard that USB Sticks on SRSS 3.1
x86 are not supported at all. In SGD 4.3 this might
be possible ! I don't know any docs regarding
'mounting a USB Stick on a SunRay and export them to
Windows ')Through SGD, your Windows session would be able to access the USB thumb drive on the Sun Ray device (provided administator allows you to do so.)
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4) Can a printer attached to a SunRay be made
accessible to published Windows apps?
Yes, there are several ways.
a) SGD creates a virtual PDF printer. If you print
from you Windows App to that one, an Acrobat Reader
on the SunRay should open and you can print from that
one on your local attached printer. This is good for
remote connections.
b) SGD have a feature of "follow me printing" - this
should do what you expect directly but we never used
that.
c) we use CUPS as printing system on the SunRays. On
the Windows you can then configure any CUPS printer
with the IPP URL
(http://myprintserver:631/printers/sunray1) of the
CUPS server (CUPS Server can run on Sun Ray Server).
5) SGD is currently configured to authenticate
against active directory. Will I have to create unix
users for all active directory users?
You mean authenticate your SunRay User ? I don't have
any experience with this configuration. If the user needs to login into Sun Ray first, then you'll need to configure the Sun Ray to authenticate against AD first (which I don't have any experience either.) Once that's done, SGD can authenticate against AD directly.
However, if you configure CAM mode, then you can present just the Windows logon to the user sitting in front of the Sun Ray.
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CU
Carsten
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Issue with configuration of another sunray server on same network

Hello,
I'm wondering whether it's possible to have another sun ray environment in the same network next to another.
I'm trying to setup a test environment to do some testing, but after installing the server the only server displayed in the test sunray webGUI is the production sunray server. Luckily I cannot do anything with it, because if I could do actions with the production server from the test server that would be a huge security issue.
Kind regards,
J

Just FYI, a sunray server array will have a group signature that is shared amongst other members in that array. If a new sunray server is setup with a different group signature, they should not care about eachother.

Cleaning /tmp on a SunRay server

Hello,
I'm running a server with 70 SunRay units, used by a different group of users every week. Mostly. Some stick around for a few months, but the majority are here for a week at a time. The /tmp directory gets littered quickly with files related to SunRay usage. We're also using Sun's GNOME 2.0 desktop environment, which creates /tmp files. Some of the files in /tmp should not be deleted, since they will cause the SunRay units to go into a "transient state", where they have an IP address, but no graphics data is arriving from the server. The screen will display only a blue box containing the IP and MAC addresses, a status code, etc, and it will float around the screen like a screensaver. The same thing appears to happen after about 30 days, to random SunRay units, if no files from /tmp are deleted. I am trying to determine which files, if deleted, will cause the floating blue box of death, and which ones I should nuke to maintain stability.
Here are some examples of files from /tmp that I'm not sure when or if to erase:
-rw------- 1 root other 352 Aug 30 15:07 .Xauth.Aay8j
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1536 Sep 28 14:28 .X11-pipe
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 0 Aug 10 18:11 X101
prw-rw-rw- 1 root other 0 Sep 28 08:25 X11
prw-rw-rw- 1 root other 0 Sep 28 08:39 X12
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 0 Sep 27 20:39 X13
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1536 Sep 28 14:28 .X11-unix
srwxrwxrwx 1 root other 0 Sep 28 01:25 X10
srwxrwxrwx 1 root other 0 Aug 10 18:11 X100
srwxrwxrwx 1 root other 0 Aug 10 18:11 X101
What is a good way to tell if the .Xauth* files, and the files in the .X11-unix and .X11-pipe dirs, are still in use or are from a now non-existent X session?
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root other 1388 Sep 28 01:26 .dcs.robson:10.37dd79
srwxr-xr-x 1 jbullock 03frg304 0 Sep 23 07:03 jpsock.140_03.12710
-rw------- 1 jbullock 03frg304 49 Sep 23 06:58 sh12690.2
There are dozens of .dcs* and sh* files. What are the .dcs*, jpsock.* and sh* files for, and when is it safe to nuke them?
Many thanks,
Brent

i had the "Mailbox is on a different server" error too recently (mine shows up in ms outlook express) - and believe my problem came from having the hostnamealiases space delimited instead of comma separated (with no spaces, e.g. "foo.host1.com,bar.host2.com") - comma delimited, no spaces seems to be required ...
i am having a different problem now though:
i can login to communications express hosted domains via -
the main host url using credentials like: [email protected]/passwd
but when going to any of the hosted.com's urls, and trying to login without the @hosted1.com in the user - i get redirected to access manager (and subsequently can't login using either uid or [email protected] at the hosted1.com/uwc url).
here's what i have in AMConfig.properties:
com.sun.identity.server.fqdnMap[mail.hosted1.com]=mail.actual.org
com.sun.identity.server.fqdnMap[mail.hosted2.com]=mail.actual.org
com.sun.identity.server.fqdnMap[mail.hosted3.com]=mail.actual.org
here's what i have in uwcauth.properties:
virtualdomain.mode = y
mail.actual.org.isvirutalhostname=mail.actual.org
i have also added the cookiedomains in amconsole under service configuration --> platform - in addition to creating directories (hosted1.com, hosted2.com, hosted3.com) under /opt/SUNWuwc/WEB-INF/domain - containing the original files and directories under /opt/SUNWuwc/WEB-INF/domain (i was not clear if these directories should take this form e.g. including the .com or if they should just contain the domain-name --e.g. hosted1?)
i can receive hosted email via pop using uid [email protected]/passwd, etc.
thanks for any input.
s7
using sparc 2005q4 msg -58; uwc - 42

Patch for sunray 2s on srss 3.1

Anybody know if the sound patch is out there? Will srss 4 fix this problem?
My new sunray 2s just arrived but the sound configuration tool does not work with them.
I saw a reference to the patch through google but the sun website makes no mention of a patch (last blog on sun about it was aug 2006).

With SRSS installed in a mixed mode setup with 64bit system but 32bit
libraries available, I ended having problems with the 32bit pam modules
included with srss.The build of GDM supplied with SRSS is a 32-bit executable and therefore requires 32-bit PAM modules. If you're trying to use the distro's native 64-bit GDM then obviously those modules won't work.
(The SRSS GDM daemon is 32-bit but SRSS delivers 32- and 64-bit GDM greeter executables and runs the appropriate one automatically. That gets around some missing 32-bit Gnome libraries on the supported 64-bit platforms.)
Is a linux 64bit SRSS scheduled?SRSS 3.1.1 and SRSS 4.0 (currently in beta) are supported on 32-bit and 64-bit RHAS4 and SLES9. SRSS is not supported on any other distros. If you want to try to install and run SRSS on other distros that's fine, but Sun won't provide assistance or support.
You might try asking on the sunray-users mailing list at <http://www.filibeto.org/sun/sunray-users/>. Some people on that list run SRSS on unsupported distros.

Sunray 4.2 Connector Proxy messages

I recently upgraded one of the 5 sunray servers in a failover group from SRSS 4.0 to SRSS 4.2 All of the 250+ sunray sessions connect via a kiosk script to one of 4 windows terminal server farms running win 2003 and win 2003 R2.
I upgraded the SRWC (2.2) as well as the SRSS (4.2). In addition I have also installed SRSS 4.2 patch (140994-03), Kiosk 4.2 patch (143535-01) and SRWC 2.2 patch (143215-03) All servers are X4100 running Solaris 10 update 8.
SInce the upgrade, I have had no complaints from users, but my /var/adm/messages file is filled with entries every few minutes as shown below :
Sun Ray Connector proxy: [12349] : [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown.
Sun Ray Connector proxy: [12553] : [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown.
Sun Ray Connector proxy: [12588] : [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown.
Sun Ray Connector proxy: [12620] : [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown.
Sun Ray Connector proxy: [12652] : [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown.
Sun Ray Connector proxy: [12684] : [ID 855542 user.error] Child closed socket prematurely, session shutdown.
Also I have noticed that the upgraded server doesn't seem to have as many sessions as the other 4.0 servers
Any ideas /suggestions much appreciated.
Frank
Auckland, New Zealand.

Sorry for later answer, we are deploying a vSphere and things got complicated.
Nice to meet Frank (Paco, Curro ...) ;-). You're one of 'the Line'!!!, CADIZ! hehe
How small is this world ... I'm from Granada, you are welcome to my land ..
On the subject of black screens, I can tell you that my infrastructure consists of two servers in cluster with SSRS and SRWC. On the back I have a Windows Terminal Server farm with two servers.
At first, all servers were virtualized with VMware 3.5, but later changed the SSRS per physical server (Sun Fire X2100 (x86) with the latest version of Solaris and the latest patches sunray), but the problem persists. Since I can only remove the WTS and pass it to the new platform vSphere.
As I said in my first message, after a short period of inactivity, the DTU are blocked without responding to the mouse or keyboard, although the WTS session is still active, because I can connect from the server itself.
I do not know if you can guide me in some way things look, to cancel, etc.
First of all, thank you very much for your interest, even calling to SUN.
Nice to talk to you ...
Jose Garrido
Granada
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