I spent some time exploring and experimenting with wikis.sun.com. First of all, it is a wiki that is open to people inside Sun as well as outside. Second, it is divided into spaces on various topics.
Each space is created by a Sun employee, has its own set of permissions
that control the access level for the users. Everything is possible --
from anybody can do everything, down to just the space owner can see
and edit the pages of her wiki space.
The notation guide
reveals some nice features. It is definitely worth to take a look. My
personal highlight is the capability to include some external content
to wiki pages. For example, the wiki page for the Sun Ray Conenctor for VMware View Manger lists all of Sun's blog postings that are tagged with 'srvc'. The wiki macro that does the trick is:
{rss:url=http://blogs.sun.com/main/feed/entries/atom?tags=srvc}
The
other feature I like to discuss in brief is the page layout and a
navbar with macros. Therefore, all my wiki pages are based on the same
skeleton:
{section}
{column:width=70%}
main content goes here
{column}
{column:width=5%}
{column}
{column:width=25%}
{include:navbar}
{column}
{section}
This
divides the page into 3 columns: 70% width for the main content, 5%
white space, 25% for the navigation bar on the right. The latter
contains the same elements for all pages by including another wiki page
'navbar'. Here is my navbar:
{panel:bgColor=#eef|borderColor=#ccc}
h6. Pages
[A Social Software Pattern Language]
{pagetree:startDepth=2}
\\
{pagetreesearch}
\\
{recently-updated-dashboard:showProfilePic=true}
\\
{panel}
A
light blue box with a tree view of all pages in the wiki space, a
search element, and a log of recent changes in the wiki space to
stimulate participation. '\\' is a forced empty line. Here is an
example: A Social Software Pattern Language
BTW_
I strongly recommend to put such recurring elements to the right, in
order not to break the visual connection between the page heading and
the content.
enjoy,
mmprove
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Did I miss the release notes? Would like to know what is fixed/added in this update.
Posted by Art Peck on March 11, 2009 at 09:19 PM CET #
Any release notes/change log for 1.1?
Posted by Duco Jaspars on March 12, 2009 at 01:42 PM CET #
Hello Art, Duco,
you haven't missed anything. There are no release notes. Here is a quick overview what has changed:
- rebranded and certified for VMware View 3
- new documentation
- localization of user interface and documentation. The latter is in progress.
- '-d' to specify a default domain.
- some minor bug fixes, e.g. the Java 5/6 issue to solve some keyboard issues (http://blogs.sun.com/sjf/entry/keyboard_layout_problems_with_sun) is gone.
Posted by mprove on March 12, 2009 at 02:10 PM CET #
Thanks mprove,
Have one more question though (which I am trying to get answered for a while now). What we are missing in the View connector is the menu bar you get in the top of your screen when you use the VMware client, which gives you the oportunity to switch sessions. The only way to do this now is to disconnect your session, and login again if you want to go back. Next to that, an end user can not reset his desktop when it hangs. Both these isues would be very welcome, either via a menu bar ala view client, or maybe an other way. Is this something that will show up in the not so far future?
Thanx
Duco
Posted by Duco Jaspars on March 12, 2009 at 09:41 PM CET #
I have also another problem. When I click logoff from the View client, my Sun Rays are not presented with the log in prompts again. The only way for me to do this, is to kill the sessions (through a cold restart). Is there a way to solve this?
These are the differences between the two sessions, one before login, and one after login! Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks :
root 13573 1 0 13:32:42 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWkio/lib/kioskcritd /var/run/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/utku1/kioskcritd utku
utku1 13576 13362 0 13:32:42 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/ctrun -l child -i none /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession custom
utku1 13671 1 0 13:32:42 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWut/bin/utaudio
utku1 13698 1 0 13:32:44 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/gconfd-2 10
utku1 13675 13639 0 13:32:42 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWut/lib/utslaunch
utku1 13639 13576 0 13:32:42 ? 0:00 /bin/ksh /opt/SUNWkio/lib/Xsession
utku1 13712 13711 0 13:32:47 ? 0:00 /bin/sh /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/vdm/vdm -http -s 172.16.4.121 -p 80
utku1 13720 13712 0 13:32:47 ? 0:12 /usr/java/bin/java -client -Duser.language=en_MT.UTF-8 -Djavax.net.ssl.trustSto
utku1 13711 13639 0 13:32:47 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWkio/lib/kioskcrit /var/run/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/utku1/kioskcritd /etc/
utku1 13700 13684 0 13:32:45 ? 0:00 iiim-xbe
utku1 13699 13684 0 13:32:45 ? 0:00 iiim-panel --disable-crash-dialog
utku1 13687 13684 0 13:32:43 ? 0:00 iiimd -nodaemon -desktop -udsfile /tmp/.iiim-utku1/:12.0 -vardir /var/opt/SUNWk
utku1 13684 1 0 13:32:42 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/iiimx -iiimd
utku0 12455 1 0 13:29:08 ? 0:00 /usr/bin/iiimx -iiimd
utku0 12446 1 0 13:29:08 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWut/lib/utslaunch
utku0 12442 1 0 13:29:08 ? 0:00 /opt/SUNWut/bin/utaudio
utku0 12469 1 0 13:29:09 ? 0:00 /usr/lib/gconfd-2 9
utku0 12457 12455 0 13:29:08 ? 0:00 iiimd -nodaemon -desktop -udsfile /tmp/.iiim-utku0/:11.0 -vardir /var/opt/SUNWk
utku0 12347 12192 0 - ? 0:03 <defunct>
utku0 12470 12455 0 13:29:11 ? 0:00 iiim-panel --disable-crash-dialog
utku0 12471 12455 0 13:29:11 ? 0:00 iiim-xbe
Posted by Jean Paul Gatt on March 13, 2009 at 02:25 PM CET #
Hi Duco,
The Connector uses the script /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/uttsc
to start the Windows RDP session. If you change
the line:
theUTTSCDefaultArgs="-m -b"
and remove the -b option, a menubar will be available when
you move your mouse to the top of the screen that allows you to
disconnect your session. You can find more about this option in
the uttsc man page.
Tom
Posted by Tom O'Connor on March 18, 2009 at 12:15 PM CET #
Hi Jean Paul,
I don't see anything unusual in this log output that
would explain your problem. You could also look in
the file /var/dt/Xerrors to see if there is anything
there that might help to diagnose it.
Tom
Posted by Tom O'Connor on March 18, 2009 at 12:18 PM CET #
Hi,
Has anyone experienced issues when the username (under "Owner" in token registration) has a space, hence; "lastname firstname". It fails to pass the full information to the VMView server on logon. Hence when that user inserts the smartcard, it displays only LASTNAME in the User Name field.
Regards, Eduardo
Posted by Eduardo on May 19, 2009 at 02:22 PM CEST #
Does Vmware View Manager for Sun Ray work with Vmware View server 3.1 ?
Posted by Jefferi Holland on June 01, 2009 at 09:11 PM CEST #
Hi All,
Does Vmware View Manager for Sun Ray work with Vmware View server 3.1 ?
Posted by Jefferi Holland on June 01, 2009 at 09:14 PM CEST #
I'm using
-s anetv91 -http -d OENBNT -- -m -l de-DE -r usb:on
as options for VmWare View, but I do not get a German Keyboard, which works for uttsc session, and no USB Devices are forwarded to the Target PC, even if have EA2, an actual patch level of the Sun Ray DTU, etc. It seems, the -- options are more or less ignored.
With uttsc (RDP) and USB redirection installed on the Target PC, USB redirection works and also the german keyboard.
any ideas, thomas
Posted by Thomas Fuerle on October 23, 2009 at 12:05 PM CEST #