FDS admin console on windows

After installing FDS on a Suse 10.1 machine, I tried to get admin console working on my windows machine. The Sun ONE admin console won’t work – I tried.

There is an HOWTO on the fedora website on getting the FDS Admin client working on Windows but some minor tweaks necessary to actually get it to work (particulary with the more recent versions of FDS)

Replace:

java  -ms8m -mx64m -cp jss3.jar;ldapjdk.jar;fedora-base-1.0.jar;fedora-mcc-1.0.jar;
fedora-mcc-1.0_en.jar;fedora-nmclf-1.0.jar;fedora-nmclf-1.0_en.jar
-Djava.library.path=..\lib\com.netscape.management.client.console.Console

with

java -ms8m -mx64m -cp jss3.jar;ldapjdk.jar;fedora-base-1.0.jar;
fedora-base-1.0.3.jar;fedora-mcc-1.0.3.jar;fedora-mcc-1.0.3_en.jar;
fedora-nmclf-1.0.3.jar;fedora-nmclf-1.0.3_en.jar -Djava.library.path=..\lib\
-Djava.util.prefs.systemRoot=. -Djava.util.prefs.userRoot=.
com.netscape.management.client.console.Console $*

Note the use of the minor-versioned jar files. That did the trick for me.