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Using Sun Ray thin clients in 2025
setting up 20 year old hardware is bound to work first try, right? ... right?
i also wanted to set up the Sun Ray server so that when i inserted a particular smart card into a client, it would bring up an RDP session to my existing “desktop” (a Fedora VM running Xrdp). this was a fairly common use case back in the day, and some people wrote helpers to allow things like that - one of which being Daniel Cifuentes’ meta-kiosk, which i borrowed some ideas from. with much the same setup as the RDP sessions, it’s pretty easy to start a kiosk-mode Firefox, pulling the URL to open from the token data:
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