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Wednesday Oct 06, 2004

The patching of my home Sun Ray server was successful, now running Firefox!

I am a big fan of JET (Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit) and have used it for quite a while, especially when jumpstarting a Sun Ray servers. Its really cool to to start with a blank machine, hook it to my laptop, kick off the JET build, take the customer to lunch and when you get back the Sun Ray terminals are waiting at the dtlogin prompt.

I have JET on the Solaris 10 partition on my laptop, with the media for Solaris 9, Sun Ray 2.0 and the EIS CD. The Sun Ray module needed a bit of work to get 3.0 beta working and the first test was successful with LAN based connections only. I wasn't able to test the configuration of interconnects as my test Ultra30 didn't have a 2nd interface - thanks to JM it does now.

I will download the latest build of Sun Ray 3.0 today and get test JET build with both a private interconnect and LAN connections running. Once this is working I will need to book a couple of lab machines and do a JET build of a failover group - I hope to have the updated JET module available for Sun personnel as Sun Ray 3.0 is released.

The Sun Ray JET module isn't a free module included with the JET download from sun.com, but if you are interested you can get Sun to install a JET solution which includes it.

Signed up for the work from home Sun Ray pilot in europe, but haven't heard anything yet.

Paul

Comments:

Is the Sun Ray JET module available for Solaris x86 (i.e. Sun Ray Server 3.0 is running on Solaris x86)?

Posted by Unknown on October 06, 2004 at 12:30 PM BST #

I am working on getting JET working for Sun Ray 3.0 on linux, can't comment on Solaris x86.

Posted by PJShore on October 06, 2004 at 12:53 PM BST #

I have a question about Sun Ray working over internet connection: When working from home using a Sun Ray over internet (for example: DSL or cable modem) while the Sun Ray server (3.0) is sitting behind the corporate firewall, what kind of encryption/authentication mechanism is Sun Using? (We don't want the data transfered over internet be snoopped by other people.) What ports need be opened on corporate's firewall to allow Sun Ray trafic in/out? (the least ports to open, the better) Thanks for your time!

Posted by Unknown on December 02, 2004 at 09:21 PM GMT #

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