Running Solaris IE Binaries in FreeBSD? 35
Hugh asks: "I work for a company that requires all its employees to use Internet Explorer, but they have no problem with "alternative" operating systems. As such, I would like to run FreeBSD but because there is no BSD IE binary, I would need to run the Solaris binary. BSD has a great Solaris compatibility layer, but I have not had any success getting it to work with IE. I was wondering if anyone else had any input on the topic?"
ie for sparc (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:ie for sparc (Score:2, Interesting)
I think your only option would be to run it via a forwarded X11 connection to a Solaris box.
Ahhhh.... bring on Transmeta's Crusoe!
Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:2)
IE on Solaris is a complete dog. And it won't work any *better* even if you manage to by some kludge make it work under some other unix. Exporting it over the network with X11 works, but seriously, what's it all for ? Why can't you just use a browser that works on your OS ? Mozilla ?
I'd ask my boss for the reason for such an idiotic policy. If the answer is not satisfactory, go work for someone who actually has a clue. You'll only regret working for idiots in the long term anyway.
Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:2, Interesting)
Also, more recently, I have run into a few things at my current job that have IE requiored, due to features built in to it. These are mainly features with Java and Orical DB stuff. Opera and Netscape would not run the Java we have in place at the time of implementaion.
Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:1)
That is not entirely true. The company I work for uses an Intranet application that makes use of a LOT of ActiveX type things that IE has built into it. Unfortunately, the html and javascript code in the pages are also tuned to IE and that makes the page look like goat crap in Netscape.
No, it's logical. (Score:2)
Agreed that IE for Solaris is flaky. But compare it to the alternatives! A couple years ago, I was working for a Solaris-only company where a lot internal docs (meeting minutes, project plans, etc.) were written in HTML. At the time my choices were Netscape 4.0 and IE. Solaris Netscape crashed a lot, and had some silly limitations. (Hello! Page numbers on printouts are a basic feature!) So I used IE. Had problems of its own, but still better than Netscape. If I were there now, I'd probably want to switch to Konqueror -- but there are still pages that the K can't render correctly!
Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:2)
The one I am at enforces IE because it allows them to use the pass through security on internal sites...that doesn't work with any other browser...all the IIS servers are set to accept NT Challenge response only, basic Auth is truned off.
There is a very good reason for this. (Score:2)
Re:There is a very good reason for this. (Score:2)
This merely moves the problem. "Why must I use IE?" changes into "Why do you use proprietary shit for something as simple as a proxy-server?".
I don't know about you. But I've got better things to do with my time than battling PHB's for permission to use the tools that will allow me to get my job done efficiently.
Re:There is a very good reason for this. (Score:2)
Unfortunately, the security/gestapo group controls the firewalls, not me. The Nazis want all outgoing connections to be authenticated against the W2k domain via active directory. They disallow non-ntlm connections to enforce this.
I have better things to do than fight powerhungry lunatics -- so I connect to my home pc via citrix and do everything from there.
Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:1)
does anyone have a way around this?
Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:1)
I don't like it, but I can understand why they do it.
PS: Also, application vendors, such as SAP, can push them into this corner, too.
Re:Hello ! I work for a clueless company. (Score:2)
Then any standards-compliant browesr will work. Yes, I'm aware that no 100% compliant browser exists, but a few are close enough to work well in practice.
It's a *long* time since I saw a page that validated under validator.w3.org but still failed to work ok in both Mozilla, Galeon and IE.
Fake it and save yourself the trouble (Score:1)
If it's the latter, then you might want to consider theming Mozilla to look like IE. This might save you a great deal of hassle and make the browser considerable more responsive!
Re:Fake it and save yourself the trouble (Score:1)
Mozilla needs an "exploiter" mode (Score:1)
Galeon Plugins was:Mozilla needs an "exploiter" m (Score:1)
Re: write themes for mozilla (Score:1)
Comment removed (Score:3, Insightful)
i concur... wine is the answer... (Score:1)
that isnt to say that a stealth mode mozilla isnt a cool idea.
A side note... (Score:2)
As an aside, I use IE for Solaris (on Sparc) for those pesky few corporate web pages which require IE. For everything else, I'm still using netscape. (Also, the IE for Sparc also now includes Outlook!)
About the BSD compatibility thing... was that a Solaris library compatibility, or SPARC processor and Solaris library compatibility? I'm just wondering if it only works for Solaris code on Intel.
IE never ran on Solaris for me (Score:1)
Any help here?
Err, Yes and No (Score:3, Insightful)
On your box with the XServer (FreeBSD in this case):
$xhost +solaris.box.ip.here
On the Solaris box:
$DISPLAY=insert.your.ip.here:0
$export DISPLAY
$./ie &
It should display on your FreeBSD Xserver just like you want. I have done this for quite a while to get the HP/UX version of IE running on an Apollo 735 to display on my Linux box. A fast network is obviously preferred.
Toodles
Re:Err, Yes and No (Score:2)
(notice, I havent tried Solaris under VMWare, don't even know if its possible).
Not that it helps in this case (IE for Solaris is Sparc-only [microsoft.com]), but Solaris supposedly can run in VMWare for Linux, but not VMWare running on Windows. Well, that's not entirely true. Supposedly it can install only on a Linux host, but once it's installed it can run on either host platform.
Re:Err, Yes and No (Score:1)
Since IE for solaris is a SPARC binary, not x86... well, it might be tough to run it in VMWAre.
By the way - Mozilla runs better on Solaris than IE does, and Konquerer isn't too shabby, either...
Re:Err, Yes and No (Score:1)
How did you do this, do you have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance...
Re:Err, Yes and No (Score:1)
Codeweavers... (Score:1)