To be able to use a Debian Jessie computer as a BlackBox (so without monitor or keyboard/mouse) with Caldera, it’s mandatory that some specific services run on the operating system. These services are needed to do a remote connection by VNC (session 1, session 0 works).
Unfortunately these services do not start if an user is not logged on the system and by default Debian Jessie asks for login and password.
It’s not possible to change this behaviour in « Users and Groups » settings of the Debian Jessie.
To enable an autologin for the « caldera » user, you have to do the following manipulations in order.
1) Open the Mate terminal (in « Applications -> System Tools -> Mate Terminal »).
2) Identify yourself as root by typing « su – » and validate by pressing the Enter key. It will ask you for a password : put the root password (usually « caldera »).
3) Edit now the file « lightdm.conf » by typing : pluma /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
4) Find these two lines (possible to use CTRL+F):
#autologin-user=
#autologin-user-timeout=0
5) Remove the # before each line to keep only the following :
autologin-user=
autologin-user-timeout=0
6) Add your account name after « autologin-user= ».
Usually the account name is « caldera » so it should be like this :
autologin-user=caldera
7) Save the file and close the text editor (pluma).
8) Reboot the computer.
Caldera Client/Server installations:
If you plan to use the Caldera computer as a Blackbox (so without monitor), do not forget to disable the automatic start of the Caldera RIP when the account is accessed otherwise you will lose a Visual User token from your license.
To do that you can go to "System -> Preferences -> Startup Application" and uncheck the "CalAutoStart" program. Validate by closing the window.
Note that a Caldera Server RIP station can start and be used by any Caldera Client RIP station for ripping without any Caldera user logged in.
If you still have an issue with calserver after the manipulation, you can put a manual start of calserver by editing the file /etc/rc.local (with root rights) . Add the following information before the "exit":
sleep 7
/opt/caldera/bin/calserver /opt/caldera/lib/calserver.cfg