Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:21:37 +0100 From: Grzegorz Czaplinski <G.Czaplinski@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> To: cloper <cloper@crowncollege.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUNRays Message-ID: <20031207202137.GG10875@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> In-Reply-To: <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org> References: <3FD24741.5000100@crowncollege.edu> <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org>
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On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 10:31:17PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote: > cloper wrote: > > >I have a few SUNRay thin clients that I would like to use on something > >other than Solaris. Has anyone successfully used these under BSD? Does > >anyone have any ideas what so ever? > > I've seen an installation of about 30 SunRays before and I seem to > remember thinking that they needed specialised software from Sun running > under Solaris in order to work. They are *really* thin clients that > really only consist of a monitor, mouse and keyboard and rely on their > host server for everything else. That's not an architecture that you're > going to get FreeBSD to run under I wouldn't think. > > I'd like to be proved wrong however. Perhaps the rays just provide an X > Server or somesuch and you could persuade them to display the output of > XFree86 under FreeBSD? > > I don't know enough detail to say for sure - do some investigating then > come back and tell us all! > This is true. You will not be able to install anything on SunRay. You need a SunRay server which is a software run on top of Solaris. SunRays are thin clients - CPU, some RAM, I/O devices and ethernet card. They authenticate to the server via MAC address, the session is on the real server and everyting is passed via ethernet cable. There is a software for Windows though, but I can't remember the name, so you could connect your SunRay to Windows server. You can't run FreeBSD on SunRay. Cheers, greg -- Grzegorz Czaplinski <gregory at prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> "The Power to Serve, Right for the Power Users!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Fingerprint: EB77 E19D CFA2 5736 810F 847C A70F A275 2489 469F
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