Opensource bluray playback is a cat and mouse game, which involves constantly waiting for hackers to discover uptodate keys to play more recent titles. Oracle and sun microsystems strategic acquisitions oracle. This library effectively breaks the css encryption on dvds, allowing you to watch them. Installing sunray software server srss on centos 5. Lowpower sun servers support the virtualization and sun ray software, which, when combined with.
Because oracle hasnt kept up the sun ray server software, you need to install some older versions of jdk and tomcat, so you will have to determine if. Why should i need oracle sun ray operating software 11 and what is the use of it. Thats mostly because blu ray is loaded with drm that hollywood doesnt want opensource programs to be able to get past. Most of the information for sunsdr2 is applicable to sunsdr2 dx, therefore they share many of the instructions and manuals.
From simple terminal applications to rich network desktops. Sun ray software is the entire package of software needed to use sun ray technology. Jul 31, 2009 about to configure the following software products. How to preserve sun ray software configuration data linux.
After some recearch i fount that the so the unix and linux forums. Sun ray software enables sun ray clients to be connected to a lan or a wan. The firm also said that sun ray software 5 pdf will improve ease of use with better integration capabilities across a number of server platforms, including oracles enterprise linux. After rebooting the server, the sun ray kernel modules loaded, and the sun ray clients booted to a rhel 3 login screen. Sun developed a separate network display protocol, appliance link protocol alp, for the sun ray system. The sun ray from oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments, originally introduced by sun microsystems in september 1999 and discontinued by oracle in 2014. How to configure a sun ray server on a lan and dhcp server setup. Blu ray has been out for a long time now, so it seems crazy that there still isnt a clearcut way to play them in linux. We want to establish sessions through the vmware view manager to 2fs appliances and perform smart card logon scl to a windows 2008 r2 server. Oracle releases sun ray software 5 software itnews. The are also a lot of application notes to download from the application notes library.
Virtualizing windows on sun ray thin clients at the microsoft. I dont think there is a problem with using sun ray 2 devices with any version of srs, but i wonder if there are limitations to the older versions of srwc that might complicate dual monitor, or. This procedure uses the utsetup command to install and configure a sun ray server for both the linux or solaris operating system the utsetup command configures a sun ray server to use a shared network lan and it generates a set of. But there is another option, involving partially proprietary closedsource software, which is for the moment free to use on linux. Sun ray software commands command definition utaction execute commands when a sun ray client session is connected, disconnected, or terminated. The core piece of this software is sun ray server software, which runs on your server. The sun ray 4 security technical implementation guide stig is published as a tool to improve the security of department of defense dod information systems. Download sun ray software from the oracle software delivery cloud or my oracle support. Dec 29, 2008 the sun ray 270 is shown below with the builtin display. Popup gui and sunray 2fs dtus with srss 5 on a linux server. Sunray thinclients are a definite competitor in the business desktop arena providing an attractive alternative to the citrixwindows thinclient solution. Is it possible center just the login dialog box on one screen and resume the unix and linux forums.
Sun ray 1 units from the old aeg are being redeployed to meet demand. It featured a smart card reader and several models featured an integrated flat panel display the idea of a stateless desktop was a significant shift from, and the eventual successor to, sun s earlier line. Can i use any other servers like hp ibm instead of sun fire x 4200 to connect with sun ray thinclients. Sun ray software srs is available for the solaris and linux operating systems. Sun ray software srs is available for the solaris and linux. Ive verified that ive installed the popup gui on the clients, but im unable to bring up the gui on the fs units, but the nonfs unit works fine. The status of this library is legally unclearits potentially illegal under the dmca in the. Zeroadministration sun ray virtual display clients enable access to applications on virtually any platformthe solaris operating system, java technology, linux. A surplus sun ray 270 allinone thin client came evan allens way, and to make something useful from it.
All 100 sun ray 2 units have been deployed or reserved as spares. The sun ray from oracle is a stateless thin client solution aimed at corporate environments. Sun ray 2 sun ray 2fs sun ray 270 total usb ports 2 usb 1. Sep 25, 2019 sun ray clients are connected via an ethernet network to a sun ray server.
Sun ray software is a secure and costeffective solution that delivers a rich virtual desktop experience for sun ray clients, pcs, and laptops. Sun whips its sun ray thin client into better shape. The sun ray 2fs is the only virtual display client from a major vendor that includes fiber to the desktop, native dualhead similar to xinerama and an integrated smart card reader as standard features. Is any sun ray server software available for windows.
Help with sunray 2fs setup the unix and linux forums. Sun extends sun ray technology to linux environments. I dont think there is a problem with using sun ray 2 devices with any version of srs, but i wonder if there are limitations to the older versions of srwc that might complicate dual monitor, or something in the solaris 8 x libraries. The sun ray software has two basic modes of operation generic session or kiosk mode. Yn n about to configure the following software products. Sun whips its sun ray thin client into better shape infoworld.
Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address. The sun ray 270 is shown below with the builtin display. Suns officially supported linux distributions only. The new ultrathin clients are the sun ray 2, a lowend model, and the sun ray 2fs, a higherend version that adds a builtin, fiberoptic connector and dual monitor ports, allowing users to. Oracle acquired sun microsystems in 2010, and since that time oracles hardware and software engineers have worked sidebyside to build fully integrated systems and optimized solutions designed to achieve performance levels that are unmatched in the industry.
Make sure the server targeted to become the sun ray server meets. Figure 7 the sun ray 270, 2fs, and 2 thin clients from left to right. It provides access to virtual desktop environments from nearly any location and dramatically reduces the complexity and operational costs. So, for the benefit of the few that might be interested, here are the issues regarding installation of sun ray server 5. This chapter is intended to define and describe the thin client and smart display architectures as implemented using sun ray technology and either linux or solaris on either x86 or sparc. Dec 29, 2007 16 of 20 sun ray 2fs units have been deployed the remaining 4 are already reserved for deployment or as spares. The following table shows which versions of sun ray server software are compatible with which versions of the solaris operating environment. On a third, it could provide access to linux, the solaris os, or some. The dualdisplay capability is unique for a thin client. Lawrence seskes san storage unix system admin self. Sun launches new thin clients, ships niagara server cio.
Although paul murphy is offline until august 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in progress on sun rays and the smart display. Sun ray operating software is applicable to solaris 10, 11. However, the two new thinclient systems that eweek labs recently testedhewlettpackards t5720 and sun microsystems sun ray 2fsare robust in terms of performance and features. Trouble is, that today i just bought a very neat sun ray 2fs and for setting this up i really do need to find the sun ray server software 4. We are standing up an environment in which sun ray 2fs thin clients attached to sun ray software server srss. This time, however, i put both monitors on a single sun ray 2fs client. Ive tried using a sun keyboard with stopm and stops, but nothing brings up the gui. The sun ray 2fs includes an additional usb port, fiber and ethernet ports, and a dualhead connection for running two displays that can operate as one. Sun ray thin client becomes raspberry pi workstation hackaday.
It featured a smart card reader and several models featured an integrated flat panel display the idea of a stateless desktop was a significant shift from, and the eventual successor to, suns earlier line. Rounding out the current series of sun ray 2 devices, the sun ray 2fs vdc offers a native dualdisplay device using dvi video adapters as well as a fiber networking interface. Is it possible center just the login dialog box on one screen and resume dual display mode after login. Although paul murphy is offline until august 7, he filed a series of chapter summaries for a book in. To download and install the oracle enterprise manager for sun ray software plugin, login to enterprise manager 12c, and go to setup extensibility self update. Sun launches new thin clients, ships niagara server. Sun ray 2 is the latest generation of suns 8yearold thin client technology, which now lets users access applications on multiple platforms, including sun, java, linux, unix and. The sun ray 2fs native ability to support dual monitors will come in handy because intelligence analysts do a lot of imagery work, durante added. How to play dvds or bluray on windows 8 or windows 10 the free vlc media player can play dvds on linux, but it requires a special library known as libdvdcss. It provides access to virtual desktop environments from nearly any location and dramatically reduces the complexity and operational costs incurred by traditional pc deployments.
Suns software lets users switch between linux, windows and solaris much as. Sun ray clients differ from complex pcs and other thin clients with embedded operating systems because they have no local operating system such as windows. The sun ray client architecture consists of two major components. The sun ray 270 has a mips processor board integrated into a 17 inch monitor. If set, turns off the input selector on the front of a sun ray 270 and locks the monitor so that it displays.
Sun ray 2fs offers 1920x1200 resolution on both monitors, which it says is the highest resolution from any thin client vendor. About to configure the following software products. Sun ray software is a secure and costeffective solution that delivers a rich virtual desktop experience for sun ray clients, pcs, laptops, and tablets. This is where you will find software and manuals for our products. Applicable to sun ray series 2 p8, 33i p10 and 3plus p9 only. In 2007, sun and uk company thruput integrated the sun ray 2fs with 28 2048. Virtual desktop infrastructure with sun ray 2 devices. Can the sun ray 2 fs do dual monitor windows on sun ray server 3. I acquired a sun ray 1g thin client and i want to connect it to my linux machine but i m having some difficulty finding software for it sun ray server. Sun ray hardware version sun ray 2fs to sun ray 2fs release 1. This is where display output for the sun ray clients is produced and where input from the clients is processed.
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