Firefox 1.0.x and DRAC5

[David Sparks]

Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> Has anyone successfully used the Console Redirection or Remote Media
> extension in the new DRAC5 with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.x ?

Never got it to work here.  We have 1 Windows 2003 server in our network
so we rdesktop to that machine and then use IE to connect to various
DRAC5 based servers.  Very slow, many screen drawing errors, many
disconnects, etc.  Not a good solution.

Also using multiple full screen virtual desktops in a stacked
configuration make things like <ALT>-<Fx> to change consoles not work.


> At first I assumed that the DRAC5 docs only listed FF 1.0.5 as
> "supported" because of Redhat ES/AS bitrot, but I recently tried FF
> 1.0.8 on Win32 and neither Media or Console are functional, which leads
> me to doubt that they're functional in RHEL on 1.0.5_[some_patch_level].
> 
> I mean, how hard can it be to teach the JRE to read /dev/floppy and
> /dev/cdrom on the host?   Why does this stuff have to be ActiveX?
> 
> And the VNC Remote Console Redirection on DRAC4 was perfect; the latest
> patch fixed a couple of longstanding bugs that involved key sequence
> recognition.

DRAC4 was awesome, I though DRAC5 was going to be even better. :(


ds