Thanks for everyone. It was quite a number of useful responses. I am
appending everyone's response as it reads.
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>
> Hello Sun admins,
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> We are looking for a best solution to run NT apps on SPARC(ultra) work
> stations. Please share with me if you have any thoughts.
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> I 'll summarize the results.
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> Thanks
> Siva
>
jrlee
WINNT 4.0 Terminal Server w/ Citrix Metaframe 1.8
Tim
The best way I've found was to buy the SunPCi card. This is a 300 MHZ
pentium
co-processor that fits into a PCI slot. The advantage is, it's a real PC,
that
runs NT in native speeds.
I dont recommend softwindows, or any other emulator. just toooo slooowwww.
Renny
Do you wan tto RUN or DISPLAY NT Apps? There's a neat program call VNC by
AT&T (UK).
John
Two best ways I can think of:
1) if you have a newer PCI based ultra (U5, U10, U60, etc) then the
SunPCi card is the way to go. Runs your NT apps on a AMD processor
based card with 64-128MB ram right in your box. Quite nice for that
purpose, not as fast as a PC but very passable and doesn't require a
second computer.
2) VNC -- available: http://ee-staff.ethz.ch/~strub/vnc/index.html
Set yourself up a nice NT box and then install the NT server part of
VNC and then you'll be able to access the NT desktop from Solaris.
VNC is an excellent product although I'll admit I generally use it in
the reverse situation, controlling the Solaris from the NT. It does
work the other way also although I've never tried it.
Jim
Sun makes a PCI processor card which has I believe an AMD processor that can
run Windows while you run Solaris.
Tim
Check out Citrix WinFrame, or MetaFrame, or whatever they're calling
it nowadays. http://www.citrix.com/
You will probably also want to look at NCD's "Thin" Clients for Microsoft
Terminal Server. http://www.ncd.com/
Finally, if all you want is MS Office, download StarOffice from Sun's
web site. It's free, and runs natively on Solaris.
john
if you have a pci architecture, try the sunpci cards.
Lee
The best way is to buy the PC card that can run native NT applications
withing the Solaris framework.
Tom
Have you tried bochs <http://www.bochs.com/>?
Dan
Port the NT app to Solaris. :-)
Or
Verify that it HAS to be NT, if 95 will work you may have some luck with the
SunPCi card. They can be a bit slow, but I have had good luck with them.
Stan
If your talking about a ULTRA 5 then you can get a PC-COproccessor for that
machine. Other then that I'm not sure.
Dave
For Office products (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) you can use StarOffice, which
is now owned by Sun. It's BIG (~100MB), but Sun will soon come out with a
thin client. I've used the Word and Excel clones, and they work great.
OGiraud
I've tried the SUN PC card which is an hardware solution. No software
solutions are strong enough to do the job.
The PC card is a PCI card with an AMD K6-300 and 64Mo of RAM and a video
card.
Just install it in a free PCI slot (ultra5) install 2 packages and start the
"PC"
You can now access the CD drive and start window$ installation.
Have Fun.
Mark
use a Sparc Ultra 5 or 10
Get the Sun PCI card (400 mhz AMD pc on a card)
Install NT on the Sun PCI card
New NT drivers were just released. It works for me.
See
http://www.performancecomputing.com/reviews/hardware/9910hard.shtml
and Suns webpage
John C
Talk to your SUN dealer - I think that there is a program called "wabi"
that can do win32 apps. I don't know how reliable it is as I have never
used it.
Shawn
Try SoftWindows 95 for Solaris from Insignia Solution
Sun Microsystem came out a hardware plugin for Ultra 5/10 Workstation that
has a
Intel CPU chip built-in and it can run Windows 95/98/NT 4 OS. The price is
expensive and cost nearly the same if you were to buy a new PC.
Michael
If they are PCI based Ultra boxes, I would recommend the SunPCI
co-processor.
It is an AMD 400Mhz board which will take up 2 of the PCI slots in and
Ultra 5, 10, 60, etc. It will run Win 95 and NT. If you are just looking
for casual use of Office 97 apps then SoftWindows95 (about 225 US$) is
a pretty good solution on an Ultra with 300Mhz or better cpu. Finally,
have you tried looking at StarOffice?
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