sounds plausible for drac5 too.. from whence do you download that jnlp file? perhaps it "offers" for you to download it? the way it (doesn't) work for me is when i click the "Console" tab it shows a spinning hourglass image followed by "Loading the Console Redirection Plug-in...", but nothing further happens. On 13 June 2013 21:16, Jon Schewe <jpschewe at mtu.net> wrote: > Does the drac5 run a full webserver and you're just trying to get to the > console? I've got a drac7 and to launch the console app I get a jnlp file, > which is for java webstart. I've been unable to get it to work directly > from my browser, so what I do is download the jnlp file and then execute > javaws <filename> and it works as long as I don't wait longer than 30 > seconds to execute it because the login credentials timeout. > > > On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 8:40 PM, gregrwm <tclug1 at whitleymott.net> wrote: > >> does anybody connect to dell drac5 from ubuntu firefox? what's the trick? >> >> >> http://projects.nuschkys.net/2011/08/11/dell-dracremote-console-discoveries/ >> >> the above page suggests that ubuntu's icetea java plugin needs to be >> substituted by the sun java plugin. but i can't find any sun java plugin >> in the raring repos. perhaps i should be looking somewhere else? or >> falling back to an earlier ubuntu? where/which? >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20130613/f29ff96e/attachment.html>