how to run linux applications

> Now can someone tell me how to run linux applications.

Do it the same way you'd do it from any other remote X desktop. The easiest and most secure way to do it is to 'ssh -X' or 'ssh -Y' to the Linux box and then just launch the Linux application. The X commands generated by the application will be tunneled to the Sun Ray X server through the encrypted 'ssh' session.

You could also do what people used to do before 'ssh', which is to rlogin or telnet to the Linux machine, set your $DISPLAY environment variable on the Linux machine to refer to the Sun Ray X server, make sure that the Linux machine has permission to contact your Sun Ray X server (this will probably happen automatically if you are sharing a network-mounted home directory across the two machines) and then just launch the Linux application.

> And how to use the same smartcard for linux authentication also.

Can you explain what you mean by this?

OttoM.

ottomeistera at 2007-7-12 17:32:38 >

> I would like to know how to export the complete desktop.

If you want to get the Linux desktop without logging in on Solaris at all then the easiest way is to do a remote X login to the Linux machine. At the Solaris login greeter choose Options->Login_to_Remote_Host->Enter_Host_Name and give it the name of the Linux machine. If you want a Linux desktop in a window on your Solaris desktop then use Xnest. For either of these to work the Linux machine will have to be configured to grant remote X sessions.

If the Linux machine is a VNC server then you can use a VNC client (download from Sunfreeware or Blastwave or someplace else) to get a Linux desktop in a window. The nice thing about this is that the desktop can be resumable, whereas with Xnest it's not; when you close Xnest, the remote session dies.

All of the above will give you a desktop but they won't give you audio or device access. If you want those then the Linux machine will need to run the Sun Ray software (supported on only a couple of distros, but can be made to run on others). You can then connect your Sun Ray to the Linux machine and get a full desktop from it.

> and i am using smartcard for logining into sunray

> DTU, is it possible to have a single sign on?. I

> mean use the same smartcard authentication for linux

> login too.

Unless you're using some smartcard middleware the card really isn't involved in logging on, it's just a Sun Ray session selector. Your login is based on your user account. Regardless, if you want real single sign-on then you'd have to deploy something like Kerberos across your systems. If you don't already know what Kerberos is then Wikipedia is as good a place to start as any.

OttoM.

ottomeistera at 2007-7-12 17:32:38 >