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SunRayQuestionsOn this page... (hide) 1. Solaris Sun Ray QuestionsThis section offers a brief summary of frequent questions regarding the ECE/CIS Sun Ray computers running Solaris. 2. Windows Virtual Machine SunraysOn March 28th 2011 we migrated the Sunrays from using a shared Windows 2008 Server to a per-Sunray Virtual Machine running Windows 7. This means that each Sunray is connected to a virtual machine (VM) in the data center. Initially the VM is setup with a default account. Please ask the labstaff in the help request system for the username and password. This account has administrator right and if you don't want other to login to your Sunray then you should change the username and password as soon as possible. You can simply rename the existing account by running the command compmgmt.msc. Go to Local Users and groups -> users. Select the ECEuser account and press F2. Then you change it to your EECIS user name. This will make printing and mapping the network drive easier than naming it differently. Your Full Name can be anything. IMPORTANT: Do not work on the local storage. I.e. do store any files you might need later on the computer but work solely on your samba network drive. Please see on how to map your network drive. Of course you can for instance use the local hard drive for download and temporary files as well as applications. The reason we encourage user to use the network drive is that we roll back the VM to previous (working) states if problems (such as Virus/Malware) occur. 3. Using Removable StorageIt has been found that USB keys and other removable storage crash the Sun Ray - but only if plugged into the USB ports on the keyboard. Simply plug the removable storage into one of the ports on the back of the unit. After it is plugged in, Solaris will mount your drive automatically. Run If you are running Windows then the USB flash drive should be mounted automatically. 4. Connecting to a remote Windows systemThe RDP protocol is implemented by two unix programs, rdesktop and uttsc. Note you can only connect to the windows server provided by the department due to security reasons. In the following examples the server gilded-yak.eecis.udel.edu will be used. Open a console and type: rdesktop -f -d ECECIS gilded-yak.eecis.udel.edu to use rdesktop. The option -f will make it run in fullscreen and -d will use the ECECIS domain. Note in order to toggle between full screen and a window press CTRL+ALT+ENTER. Similarly you can use uttsc -m gilded-yak.eecis.udel.edu to exit fullscreen simply move your mouse to the top of the screen and a menu should pop up. 5. Sun Ray ShortcutsIf a SunRay becomes frozen for some reason you can use either of the following key sequences to reboot the Sun Ray:
You can find other shortcuts for volume and more on this website: http://www.alekz.net/archives/333 6. Changing System Volume SettingsRun Comments To add a comment, click the link below. You are free to contribute anonymously, but it is preferred that you sign your comments with your name. Simply add I found some additional helpful information regarding Removable Storage on the SunRays... Locate a removable drive: (after it has been automatically mounted)
Unmount a removable drive: (when you're done using it)
Be sure to unmount a drive before removing it! (source: http://www.cs.umd.edu/faq/sunray/usbdrive.html) |