From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 7 12:21:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0778916A4CF for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:21:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl (prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl [194.29.178.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F9543FEC for ; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 12:21:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from G.Czaplinski@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl) Received: from localhost (localhost.mini.pw.edu.pl [127.0.0.1]) by prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350432439A; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:21:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 1368) id BE0B524394; Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:21:37 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2003 21:21:37 +0100 From: Grzegorz Czaplinski To: cloper Message-ID: <20031207202137.GG10875@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> Mail-Followup-To: cloper , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3FD24741.5000100@crowncollege.edu> <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FD258B5.3030101@cream.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-PGP: http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~gregory/pgp.txt X-URL: http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~gregory/ X-Voice: +48 600 396 054 X-FreeBSD: Running FreeBSD? - Share the server config! - http://prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl/~gregory/FreeBSD/ X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS (prioris) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SUNRays X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 20:21:55 -0000 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 "The Power to Serve, Right for the Power Users!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ Fingerprint: EB77 E19D CFA2 5736 810F 847C A70F A275 2489 469F