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

[Gary Gendel]

Jon,

You're a better man than I.  I tried but got stuck somewhere.  I 
remember getting many of the pieces working, but not all.

Gary

On 02/27/2013 12:32 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote:
> 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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