Re: [Thinstation-general] VDM broker Thinstation -- SUCESS

[Rondall S. <bob...@su...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul O'Leary" <pol...@gm...>
To: "Rondall Stewart" <bob...@su...>; 
<thi...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] VDM broker Thinstation -- SUCESS


> Great to hear...happy I was able to save some time.
>
> I am still being prompted to press run for the vdm applet as well. If
> I figure out the automation I'll let your know. Are you getting and
> digital signature errors wheb running the vdi connection?

No, I have not got any signature errors yet, but I am still just testing


>
> I added the kiosk package which opens firefox in full screen kiosk
> mode.....very clean and professional looking.
>
> I am currently trying to prevent to FF download diaglog from popping
> up. I tried the pref browser.downloadmanager set to 2 but it didn't
> work.

I got this to turn off but can't remember how.  Ill send this in later 
today.

>
> I'll keep you posted on any updates I make to my image.
>
> BTW, I like your test vms, I am having a ton of drivers problems with
> various network cards....

Try hard coding the IP in the buildtime file, Trevor had posted some things 
you can try in another e-mail. Since the VM was only for testing,  I just 
hard coded the IP in the buildtime file.

>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 4/29/08, Rondall Stewart <bob...@su...> wrote:
>> Paul,
>>
>> Thanks a bunch, I was able to plug in the build.conf and the
>> thinstation.conf.buildtime and get a working firefox screen first boot. I
>> only had to make 1 small change to get VDM to work. In the build.conf I 
>> had
>> to enable rdesktop, other than that pretty much copy and paste.
>> I couldn't get the mimeTypes.rdf you sent downloaded.  I think it got
>> chunked up by my e-mail server.  Attached is what I created, probably the
>> same thing.
>>
>> I still haven't got it working quite the way I want, but It is useable.
>>
>> Here is a briefer summary of what I did, may not be the best route, but 
>> it
>> works.
>> I created 2 virtual machines to speed up the testing.
>> VM1 is a Fresh Install of openSuSE 10.3
>> VM2 is a virtual machine that has no hard drive and points directly to 
>> the
>> thinstation.iso
>> NOTE: I have to statically assign IP to get the TS to work in VM2.
>>
>> I copied your build files into the Thinstation-2.3 dir.
>> Enabled rdesktop
>> Change thinstation.conf.buildtime to match local setting
>> Opened Firefox on VM1 and configured it to attach to VDM including
>> copied /home/user/.mozilla/firefox/dkrndkl.default/prefs.js and
>> mimeTypes.rdf to .../packages/firefox/etc/TS.default
>> Built the image (more than once)
>> powered on VM2 and jumped for joy
>>
>> Only 2 things are outstanding
>> 1.  Everytime firefox starts it tries to go to www.mozilla.org for
>> something.
>> 2.  It still prompts to run the software checker.
>>
>>
>> Again thanks for the help.  You save me a ton of head scratching.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Paul O'Leary" <pol...@gm...>
>> To: <bob...@su...>
>> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 6:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] VDM broker Thinstation
>>
>>
>> > Rondall,
>> >
>> > Sorry for the latest in getting these to you, I haven't been near my
>> > build machine in a couple days. Here are the build files that I used
>> > for the beta VDM image. Please note that I have indeed added the kiosk
>> > package as suggested by Trevor, and it works wonderfully, very clean
>> > looking now.
>> >
>> > If you have any questions on the setup let me know if I can help. I am
>> > still trying to fix a couple small bugs with DHCP on some subnets, but
>> > other than that I and our company are quite pleased with this image.
>> >
>> > I have tested it on a variety of machine, mostly dell/hp
>> > desktops/laptops of various vintages, they all seem to boot into VDM
>> > broker page cleanly.
>> >
>> > Of note, if you are using any machine with the Tigon3 driver for the
>> > NIC, it's a little flaky. I had to DL the one from the contrib site,
>> > and play with it and the original file to see which works best.
>> >
>> > Don't mind the filename for my build, its just how I archived it.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> >
>> > Paul
>> >
>> > On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:16 AM,  <bob...@su...> 
>> > wrote:
>> >> That would be great,  you just made my day.
>> >>
>> >>  The build/conf files would be most helpful. Maybe just make notes of 
>> >> the
>> >> FF changes made.  What ver Java did you use?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>  ---- Paul O'Leary <pol...@gm...> wrote:
>> >>  > Rondall, I just finished creating my beta image to use with VDM.
>> >>  >
>> >>  > It is built on TS2.2.1 or 2.3, both work fine. Is uses FIrefox to
>> >>  > connect to the VDM broker and from there we select the VDI client 
>> >> to
>> >>  > connect to. I have to make a few changes to FF mimetypes to llow 
>> >> for
>> >> the
>> >>  > java portion of VDM to start automatically. I also had to install 
>> >> the
>> >>  > java package obviously, but once those two things are done, and you
>> >> set
>> >>  > FFs default webpage to the VDM broker, it looks very nice.
>> >>  >
>> >>  > There are a couple things I am still looking to do,
>> >>  > 1. have FF start maximized or with the full screen F11 option.
>> >>  > 2. not have Java prompt me about digital signatures errors when
>> >> starting
>> >>  > the VDM applet.
>> >>  >
>> >>  > If you like I can provide any build/conf files I have, or even a 
>> >> full
>> >>  > image (54mb).
>> >>  >
>> >>  > Best of luck, and hopefully you'll get all the help you need from 
>> >> this
>> >>  > group. Everyone here has been just great helping me along the way.
>> >>  >
>> >>  > Cheers
>> >>  >
>> >>  > Paul
>> >>  >
>> >>  >
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