Sun Desktop Manager / Firefox
Hi All.
I'm currently testing the newest Sun Desktop Manager to use to configure the desktops for a set of sunrays. We have a number of Sun Ray Servers and instead of having apps installed on each of them I have a central file system which is nfs mounted onto each server. The applications on this mount all work perfectly well however I cannot get Sun Desktop Manager to configure the firefox browser. If I install firefox on /usr/local then my changes appear but it's as if apoc is only looking in certain predefined paths for the firefox. Any ideas ?
TIA
Dave
# 1
Hi Dave,
There shouldn't be any difference, as far as the Desktop Manager client components are concerned, as to where the Firefox installation resides. Note, however, that the Firefox component provided with the Sun Ray Software 4 is sort of an early access for that component, but it should work nonetheless. Am I understanding correctly that your users, if they start the application from /usr/local/bin/firefox, get their settings from the Desktop Manager profiles, but that if they start it from <mount path>/firefox they don't?
Could you please check that in your shared installation, you've added the shared object to the components subdirectory with the relevant ownership and permissions (same as the other shared objects in that directory)? The way the Firefox integration works (much like the Mozilla one) is that the extra component registers itself as the preferences provider for the application, and complements the data from the local files with the one coming from the profiles (and obtained through the Desktop Manager agent), so the installation path isn't involved.
Thanks,
Cyrille
# 2
Hi Cyrille,
The problem is now sorted. I had already run all the component install as suggested but without any luck, however looking back at the release notes it looks like the first time each user runs firefox the component is registered it creates a compreg.dat file which at some point must make a reference to the location of the firefox installation, any subsequent installs appear to be ignored. I have rectified the problem by deleting the compreg.dat file from each users home directory.
Thanks for your help with this, it certainly put me on the right track.
David
