Newbie...i currently boot to CDE, how do I change this to boot to Java
Desktop. Solaris 10.

Thanks,.
/mike

"miwiley" <Michael.S.Wiley@gmail.com> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
|Newbie...i currently boot to CDE, how do I change this to boot to Java
|Desktop. Solaris 10.

On the login screen, click the options button to bring up a menu and
choose Java Desktop System under the sesssions submenu.

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Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> "miwiley" <Michael.S.Wiley@gmail.com> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |Newbie...i currently boot to CDE, how do I change this to boot to Java
> |Desktop. Solaris 10.
> 
> On the login screen, click the options button to bring up a menu and
> choose Java Desktop System under the sesssions submenu.
> 
I'd suggest you don't login to JDS as root, but first create a user 
account using SMC (Solaris Management Console) that you can find in the 
menu of CDE.  Then login as your user in JDS.  This will prevent some 
JDS configuration files from appearing on your root directory structure.

On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:25:49 +0000, KJ wrote:

> I'd suggest you don't login to JDS as root, but first create a user 
> account using SMC (Solaris Management Console) that you can find in the 
> menu of CDE.

Isn't it time you learned how to use useradd(1M)?

# useradd -c 'User's Name' -d /export/home/user -m -s /usr/bin/ksh user
# passwd user

Thanks all..much appreciated.

/mike

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Tue, 08 Nov 2005 22:25:49 +0000, KJ wrote:
> 
>> I'd suggest you don't login to JDS as root, but first create a user 
>> account using SMC (Solaris Management Console) that you can find in the 
>> menu of CDE.
> 
> Isn't it time you learned how to use useradd(1M)?
> 
> # useradd -c 'User's Name' -d /export/home/user -m -s /usr/bin/ksh user
> # passwd user
> 
In my experience that isn't the best way to have a new user learn. 
Getting them to have the desktop up and running then slowly have time to 
use the CLI seemed to work best with the more casual Solaris users [yes, 
they do exist] I've met.

On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:42:15 +0000, KJ wrote:

> Dave Uhring wrote:

>> Isn't it time you learned how to use useradd(1M)?
>> 
>> # useradd -c 'User's Name' -d /export/home/user -m -s /usr/bin/ksh user
>> # passwd user
>> 
> In my experience that isn't the best way to have a new user learn. 
> Getting them to have the desktop up and running then slowly have time to 
> use the CLI seemed to work best with the more casual Solaris users [yes, 
> they do exist] I've met.

At what point in their experience do you suggest that administrators,
*not* users, actually learn how to perform such basic functions?

The invocation of a memory and resource hog such as smc just to add a user
account is beyond the absurd.  That is a tool for Windows users not UNIX
system administrators.

Dave Uhring wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 03:42:15 +0000, KJ wrote:
> 
>> Dave Uhring wrote:
> 
>>> Isn't it time you learned how to use useradd(1M)?
>>>
>>> # useradd -c 'User's Name' -d /export/home/user -m -s /usr/bin/ksh user
>>> # passwd user
>>>
>> In my experience that isn't the best way to have a new user learn. 
>> Getting them to have the desktop up and running then slowly have time to 
>> use the CLI seemed to work best with the more casual Solaris users [yes, 
>> they do exist] I've met.
> 
> At what point in their experience do you suggest that administrators,
> *not* users, actually learn how to perform such basic functions?
> 
> The invocation of a memory and resource hog such as smc just to add a user
> account is beyond the absurd.  That is a tool for Windows users not UNIX
> system administrators.
> 
I don't disagree with you.  However, most people I know learning Solaris 
are not administrators by trade [myself included], instead, just curious 
desktop users.  Therefore, rather than become so initially frustrated 
with something so different [UNIX vs. Windows], the GUI stuff gets them 
basic functionality quickly so they may have more time to gradually 
adjust and learn the 'proper' ways of administering a UNIX system.

Do I think SMC is great?  Hell no.  Does it work and provide a simple 
place for easy, though limited, GUI administration for novices?  Yes.