UbuntuOnSunRay
An annotated, step-by-step guide to running Ubuntu on the SunRay thin-client architecture.
Adapted from [http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~simigern/sunray-debian/ SunRay Debian] guide, more specifically, the 3.1 Final guide and various postings on the [http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users/ SunRay Users Mailing List].
Introduction
[http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray1/index.xml SunRay Thin-Clients] are a definate competitor in the business desktop arena providing an attractive alternative to the Citrix/Windows thin-client solution. Prior to SunRay 3.x, SunRay was only available on Solaris, however the release of 3.x SunRay Server Software (SRSS) allowed for the deployment onto Linux-based servers.
Sun's officially supported Linux distributions only included the following commercially-available distributions - RedHat Enterprise, SUSE and Sun's own Java Desktop System (SUSE-based). Many thanks have already been given to the pioneering work carried out by Michael Gernoth & Thomas Glanzmann for providing their tools and guide on how to run SunRay on Debian Sarge. From the SunRay Debian guide, users have managed to successfully run SunRay on other distributions such as Fedora Core 3 and Ubuntu.
After successfully setting up Ubuntu to run SRSS 3.1, I wish to provide an easier-to-follow, Ubuntu-tailored version of the SunRay Debian guide. The guide outlines the configuration of a SunRay LAN interconnect w/o failover on a base Breezy Badger installation. Failover may be covered in future revisions of this guide.
Packages
The following packages are to be installed:
- ldap-utils
- SRSS utilises an LDAP server to store configuration info
- dhcp3-server
- nscd
- SRSS uses nscd to lookup info such as passwd and hosts
- pdksh
- SRSS requires the use of the Korn shell
- alien
- converts Sun's supplied RPMs to a superior package format - deb
- atftpd
allows SRSS to serve firmware to SunRay thin-clients via TFTP
- wdm
- build-essential
- necessary for the compiling of audio modules
linux-headers-uname -r
- necessary for the compiling of audio modules
- gawk
- SRSS requires the use of gawk in scripts
- iputils-ping
- for pinging stuff..
- libraries: libdb3-util libx11-6 xlibs
Install Command
ncampbell@naaman:~$ sudo apt-get install ldap-utils dhcp3-server nscd gawk iputils-ping pdksh unzip alien libdb3-util libx11-6 xlibs atftpd wdm build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
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