Category Archives: server based computing

thin clients, remote desktops, citrix and stuff…

how to recover the sun ray admin password

By stotti | Published: April 15, 2007
you have forgotten the password to the sun ray administrator interface? don’t worry, this is a quick guide to retrieve it using some simple shell commands. the key to success is the file /etc/opt/SUNWut/utadmin.pw – it contains an ascii string which is the administrator password. what, plain text passwords, you may ask? of course not… the [...]
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usb unmount script for sun rays

By stotti | Published: February 26, 2007
as promised here comes part two of the usb scripts for sun ray ultrathin-clients. this is yet simpler but fancier than the mount script because it uses zenity to display the result of the unmounting operation. [CODE] #!/bin/bash ################################################################################### # Sun Ray USB UnMount Script – /opt/SUNWut/bin/utusbumount.sh [...]
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usb mount script for sun rays

By stotti | Published: February 12, 2007
as you all know the sun ray ultrathin-clients support several types of devices connected to them, including serial and parallel devices, usb mass storage, pdas and so on. for a full list see the sun ray admin guide, chapter four. now when a usb mass storage device gets plugged in, the sun ray services mount [...]
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sun ray 2 video specifications

By stotti | Published: November 30, 2006
another reminder for me and for all who want to know which video specs the “new” sun ray 2 virtual display clients support: sun ray 2: 1600×1200 max at 32bit sun ray 2fs: 1900×1200 max at 32bit, supports dual monitor setups (so each screen supports 1900×1200 pixels) and yes, you can still use your old vga monitors with [...]
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tuning sun ray startup procedures

By stotti | Published: November 22, 2006
craig bender blogs on reducing sun ray server load by setting some simple values in the sun ray config. this results in faster startup times. here’s a quick abstract on what the sun ray engineering guys did: Increase Authd worker threads from 8 to 32 Change utprodinfo to do an echo vs. a pkginfo Use non-invasive methods for [...]
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