[OpenIndiana-discuss] Vnc to mimic SunRay behaviour, how??

[Jonathan Adams]

you cannot really use VNC do do that ... you would be better off using
something similar to freeNX ... it doesn't have a client for Solaris,
but there are lots of clients for most other platforms.

I have compiled freeNX this in the past, and got it all working, I
even tar'd the file up somewhere if you want it ... but you might be
best off seeing if you can get it to work yourself.

Jon

On 27 February 2013 15:23, Hans J. Albertsson
<hans.j.albertsson at branneriet.se> wrote:
> I'm pretty comfy with the way SunRays work: you login to a remote server
> with a full graphical UI.
> When you're due for lunch, you pull your card, and go get yer grub. In the
> lounge area, you plug yer card into a sunray on a temp desk, and just
> continue in the session you left behind. Performance was OK for what we used
> them for 5-8 years ago.
>
> Alas, SunRays are a thing of the past for most of us. Oracle's price tag is
> just way too hefty for most people. Also, next SW and HW upgrade  we want
> better performance for medium-complexity graphics, so what to do instead?
>
> Initial tests with GB net and modern fanless media PCs indicate that VNC
> might just be good enough for the next 5 years or so. But, as far as I can
> see, using Xvnc in OI151a7 leaves you with but two choices, open-for-all
> possibly passwordprotected persistent preassigned sessions or non-persistent
> but automatically assigned sessions.
>
> Could one fiddle around with options and other things to simulate SunRay
> sessions in a better way??
>
> I'd like to avoid having to preconfigure a set of logical displays for each
> of my over 200 users...
>
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