Sun Ray Configuration

here are the few quick steps for the installation of sun ray software and getting the desktop login of your server on any sun ray desktop provided in your LAN.

Sunray is nothing but an thin client from sun microsystems ,Its very effective and cost saving systems compared to our traditional desktops which draws attention every often to replace the failed components ,updating the antivirus software or any other applications,adjusting the space on the desk to keep the monitors or cpu cabinets in between your legs(aaahh...not again)below the desk,facing space problem in the hard disks,keeping an eye on the users who will use their personal removable disks filled with happy playing virus with its families.....
above issues can be overcome by using sunray thin clients by updating the software or hardware on one server can provide the same facilities to the sun ray users.even administrators can restrict the normal sunray user to use his/her own removable medias.

lets get into the steps of configuration.

i had installed sunray software on my laptop's solaris 10 x86 running on an virtual machine.luckily i got 2 sunrays in my office lying just like dumb.moreover its an dumb client....it is....

download the SRSS(Sun Ray Server Software) software and copy to any directory in your solaris system

apache-tomcat and java 1.6 or higher version should be installed before you procedd installation,anyhow the SRSS software contains both the sofwares.

step 1.) extract the sunray software zip file
# unzip srss_4.2_solaris.zip


step 2.)install jre
after unzipping get into the srss_4.2 to run the jre script
#cd /srss_4.2/Supplemental/Java_Runtime_Environment/Solaris
#./jre-6u13-solaris-i586.sh

step 3.)install apache-tomcat
#cd /srss_4.2/Supplemental/Apache_Tomcat/
#tar -xvf apache-tomcat-5.5.20.tar
create an symbolic link by moving the untarred file to /opt
#mv apache-tomcat-5.5.20 /opt/
#ln -s /opt/apache-tomcat-5.5.20/ /opt/apache-tomcat

step 4.)install sun ray server software
# cd srss_4.2
# ./utinstall
accept all of the defaults
# init 6

step 5.)Configuration of sun ray server software
#/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utconfig
accept all of the defaults except for:
Enable remote server administration? (y/[n])? y
Configure Sun Ray Kiosk Mode? (y/[n])? y
#init 6

step 6.) this step is to configure the parm files,but i did'nt do it on my system .

# mkdir /tftpboot
# vi /tftpboot/srssconfig
The file should look like the following:
servers=
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -i /tftpboot/srssconfig -f /opt/SUNWut /lib/firmware_gui


step 7.)configuration of LAN connections

# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utadm -L on
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utrestart -c


now connect an sunray to your network and you must be able to see an welcome screen of your server on the sunray screen.

Till now we did the above configurations for sun ray server ,now we will play around some more stuffs to get our windows desktop screen on our sunray server.

get the Sun Ray Windows Connector software srwc_2.2_solris.zip
step 1.) unzip the software
#unzip srwc_2.2_solris.zip

step 2.)now create an group to use this.
# groupadd sunrayusers


step 3.)install the windows connector
# cd srwc_2.2
# ./installer
# /opt/SUNWuttsc/sbin/uttscadm -c

step 4.) go for a cold restart
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utrestart -c


to check the windows connector

open any internet browser and use the server's ip and port number 1660 to login to the windows machine.here i used my solaris ip 10.0.0.199

http:\\10.0.0.199:1660