What is the best way to set up HP JetDirect network printers in Solaris 10? I have just installed Solaris 10 on an Ultra Sparc 10. There are two HP Laserjet Printers (HP LJ 4100DTN and HP LJ 4000TN) with JetDirect cards on my network. I want to be able to print to either of these printers and ...

I'm trying to install Solaris 10 on HP DL 360G1,G2.I searched the HP site, but wasn't able to find the driver for Solaris 10. Doesn't it know how someone will be installed?

HiI need to get the CPU time from a multi processor machine, The top command will not do the job for me, and I will need to use the command in automation for testing the CPU time for 2 hours or more, I thinking about redirect the CPU % to a file, and in the end I will run the average for the ...

Hi,after upgrading our SF 280R from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10, Veritas NetBackup seem to have stopped working with StorEdge L7 tape loader. I get a bunch of messages (every 2 minutes) of the type:tldcd[7427]: [ID 810352 daemon.error] TLD(0) Library communications established, but no drives in ...

Greetings,I have a customer that is trying to get Samba on S10 integrated with his Active Directory environment. It would appear that the version of Samba on the S10 distribution does not have Kerberos or Active Directory support .Has anyone seen any issues with this and do you have any ...

Hi,I posted a question a while back but nobody seems interested in it. So, I'm posting it again with a different subject.I'm trying to install triple-boot: Windows, Fedora, and Solaris. I had all the partition structure worked out perfectly, and have Windows and Fedora installed fine.I'm now ...

Help neededCannot connect to network, ifconfig shows only lo0 localhost.NIC was detected duing hardware detection part of install. PC connects to network OK when booted to linux (Mandrake10) or Win XP. Hardware is A-bit motherboard with onboard NForce2 MCP NIC.How do I configure the NIC to ...

We have downloaded 2CD of OS10 but facing problem in mid of downloading CD3. Tried many time.Error coming-Microsoft internet Explore cannot download ...sol-10-GA-sparc -v3-iso.zip from sunsdc1-9-vhost4.sun.com.the operation timed out

When using the version of mozilla which comeswith Solaris 10 (3/05), whenever I try to print, mozillacrashes. I'm running on a Sun Blade 100 workstation.Any had any similar problems or know of a fix?

Hi,is it possible to downgrade Solaris 10 machine to Solaris 9 without having to reinstall everything?Thanks and bye, Dragan

Hello list,I installed Solaris 10 on my Ultra 30 about two weeks ago, and everything is mostly rosy. However, the audio quality suffers. Ogg or MP3 files are distorted. It happens with Java Media Player, and CSW's XMMS build.This has been mentioned before on the DTrace forums, but I'm rather ...

Hi fellas,I finished to install the solaris 10, but he doesnt start. When i was installing, appeared one warning message saying that i needed to install a software in the boot area, but which software?Note: i hav a Linux one of my partitions, and he is fine, even after the solaris installation. ...

I am a linux user, not a Solaris user and I am running solaris 10 on a Blade 100. I want to mount a dvd but am unsure of how to mount it because of the difference between Solaris and Linux command lines."mount cdrom" does not work. I am sure this is an easy answer to this question but I can't ...

Hi,I am new with Solaris 10, and I want to create a partition on the disk, which it has already very important data that is being backuped. I have read the documentation from sun, and it seems that the best way is with the command format and then partition.But I have seen that is possible to do ...

I am running Solaris 10 and Java Desktop 3 on a SunBlade 1500. This was an upgrade installation from Solaris 9. I ran Gnome on Solaris 9.When I right click on the Gnome Panel and select Properties, I get the error: "The Application "gnome-panel" has quit unexpectedly."When I click Close the ...

This is actually a Solaris 9 question:I need to set numerous files/directories under a selected "branch" (directory) to 664 (files) and 775 (directories), recursively.also need to ensure all files/directories created from then on are 664/775, respectively.Thanks

i have to write a pci board driver for solaris 9, and i have decided to do this on a solaris 10 system, as that is what is freely available. Are device drivers compatible from 10 to 9? The driver needs to support simple pci functions, and some memory mapping for dma.i have looked everywhere, ...

Hello!One of our DOD systems is currently being upgraded from Sol 2.5.1 to Sol 8. Other systems will upgrade to Sol 10 in the future. Since the experience of our small IT staff is with Sol 2.5.1, upgrade training for the new Solaris suite will be required soon. Question: If the IT staff ...

Hi,I抦 new to Sun systems but have some experience with Linux so far there抯 nothing to alien. However the company I work at were throwing away some older Sun Sparc stations of which I抳e rescued and now set up in my office to experiment with.I抳e since downloads Solaris 10 from Sun in the hope of ...

Hi,I have a very simple problem, I hope,...I have my disk with nine slices partioned, some of the unassigned, and I wanto create a new UFS. But when I am using the commandnewfs /dev/disk/c01t0d0s6 for exampleI am getting Device Busy or error I/O.What am I doing wrong?Thanks in advance,Juan ...

After installing Solaris 10 on a SunFire V880 and mirroring the boot disk, I am unable to boot from one disk. The boot process looks like this:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device: /pci@8,600000/SUNW,qlc@2/fp@0,0/disk@w21000000870e36cb,0:a File and args:SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic ...

We are doing some prototyping in Solaris 10/Zones using TCP sockets and have encountered the problem the "accept" system call in Solaris 10 always seem to return immediately without waiting for clients to connect to it. The same program works fine under Solaris 9 without any problems.So in the ...

Anyone knows the name (or ID) of the zip drive in Solaris? I can't seem to find it anywhere.Thanks.-van.

After installing Solaris, Solaris's Boot Manager cannot boot Linux (Fedora Core 3). It gives this error:"Bad PBR"Anyone knows what's wrong with it?As far as I know, it shouldn't cause such problem since it boots Windows fine. I already took care of the conflict of Linux's swap partition ...

All:Is there a mechanism to manage root passwords across hundreds of Solaris 10 systems? The policy requirement would be UNIQUE ROOT PASSWORDS...ThanksSekhar Nagasundaram

Solaris desn't come with a system compiler unless we install the gcc compiler in companion CD or purchase Sun compiler. When Sun released partial Solaris 8 source, I found the requirements to build Solaris 8 are a perticular exact version of Sun WorkShop compiler and Solaris. Question is when ...

Okay. it was more 'install for fun'; but it doesn't work at all.The install CD boots, tells me '/dev/diskette0: can't open' and falls back to the Configuration Assistant that doesn't seem to find the CD any longer, only the harddisk (IDE).The DELL D400 has a USB-CDRW, in case you don't ...

Hello!After upgrading my solaris 9 installation to solaris 10. My usb mouse stoped responding. My configuration in /etc/system is the same as what I had in sol9. I checked everything and seems to be correctly configured just the mouse is not working aldo keyboard is.I belive this is becuase my ...

Is there an effort to improve P.M.S. in solaris 10 ?

Hello,I was trying to install Sol 10 on my server based on Asus P4T533 motherboard. There is some Promise ATA RAID controller on this board, and I have configured RAID 0 (Stripe) array of two disks. Soaris does not recognise my disk array nor any of the disks.FreeBSD runs with default driver ...

I need a little help with the conbining of the Solaris 10 files I downloaded. I opened the Assembly instruction file in Internet Explorer but however, forgot to save the file to my hard drive. Consequently, when I went back to re-open it, the Download Center tells me that the download was ...

Hello,as there's a x86 version of Solaris 10 i downloaded the DVD version to give it a try. At boot, whether i choose the default mode or a text based install, the installation process seems to hang. Over 10 minutes later no additional information is displayed . Here's the hardwareUnex ...

i'm experienced as a solaris admin on midrange servers. i'd like to run solaris at home but can't spend more than 1K . I've been looking at ebay seeing sun blade 100 and ultra 10's selling for much less than that. i'd like to run the windows on it also -anyone here have experience with ...

Hi,I'm having some problems jumpstarting the SUNWCrnet cluster. Below is the installation log:ok boot net ?install - wBoot device: /sbus/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000 File and args: - installTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetSunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic 64-bitCopyright 1983-2005 Sun Microsystems, ...

Hi,I have strange problem in using cron. i have written a shell script which is to be automated using cron. Inside the shell script i have to pick up a variable which can be set up either globally in an environment file or inside the crontab file. when i set it up inside the environment file ...

HiI have installed apache 1.3.33 and openssl from the soalris 10 CDsI am now trying to get https working with a seld signed certificate.I can start the server with /usr/apache/bin/apachectl startsslbut when I try and haccess https the connection terminates unexpectedly and I get the following ...

I've solaris 10 x86 with jds3.I have multiple locales installed in the system.I've added them with the localeadm command.Now every window has the little window under itwith my installed locales. Is there some way to disable/hide that window?It's really annoying.My goal was to achieve typing ...

Folks,When I run a cron/at job, I get the following in the logs:< sunone 3412 a Tue Mar 1 09:49:49 2005 rc=1! could not obtain latest contract from popen(3C): No such process Tue Mar 1 09:49:49 2005/home/sunone/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/sunone/dead.lettercron's contract id is 32 ...

While trying to install Solaris 10 from the x86 CD ISO images under VMware, I first get the following:Attempting to configure interface pcn0Skipped interface pcn0This happens regardless of the VMware network setting (NAT or bridged network) which tells me the network adapter emulated by VMware ...

HiI even don't know where is my local directory and how to find out how much disk space I have on my local workstation. I have a Sun blade with Solaris 10 installed. I stored everything in my home which in on NFS.To improve performance, I want to install my Java IDE locally.Jirong ...

I installed an Expert 3d lite on a sun blade 100. I updated Solaris 10 and I was able to get X working and the Java desktop. Unfortunately, I cannot use openGL and video looks choppy when I try to play DVDs or AVIs. I do not believe that I have the card properly configured. How do I configure ...

HiWhile installing solaris 10 x86 I skipped the installation of solaris 2 of 3 CD . After than I installed solaris 3 of 3 CD. When the installation is completed I cannot find some important commands like vold & volume management commands.Now how can I install solais 2 of 3 cd as the OS is ...

I installed Solaris 10 x86 on a TOSHIBA TECRA laptop with german keyboard layout. But the german keyboard layout is not recognised.Both in command line mode and under CDE the standard UNIX keyboard layout is used.How can I change the keyboard layout settings?

Hi ,I am Using Solaris 10 on a HP D330 Model system(2.4 GHz).While sytems boots up it hangs up for approx 10 minutes with the screen loading ata.bef ... .Then boots normally it happens every time sytem is rebooted or booted.If any one knows the solution Please let me know.Advance ThanksVSS ...

Hi,I have a question. I want to install Solaris 10 on a Dell Latitude D600. The HDD has 4 partitions, 2 are NTFS (WinXP pro) and 2 are Linux partitions (I have a dual boot WinXP-SUSE Linux using Lilo as boot loader)I want to remove the Linux partitions and to install Solaris 10. I also want to ...

HiDoes anybody know when the commercial version of Solaris 10 (x86) will be released.This is rather urgent as the Oracle certification depends on this release date.thanks

Hi folks !Do you know how to know if Solaris10 is up to date (patchs) ? Is there a function like "Windows Update" ?Otherwise how to know witch patchs apply and how ?THanks for your help ;)

As I read the docs, assuming a role requires using the "su" command to assume the role by entering its password. One of the things I like about sudo is that I don't have to share a password, enabling me to revoke one user's credentials without having to revoke all of them. Is there a way to ...

HiI installed Solaris 10 released on an DELL laptop LATITUDE D800 and configured the XWindow system. I could login on CDE or on "Java Desktop System 3", everything works fine for a while.Now I have the problem that this two system wont start up correctly. I can login, the watch (mouse pointer) ...

I am running S10 3/05 on a Dell inspiron 8600 laptop. I was running beta 72 with NO problems at all. However, now with 3/05 when I put the hostname.bcf0 file inplace I get an error at boot:ip_arp_done: init failedAnd it plumbs up lo0 and bcf0 with the same localhost IP 127.0.0.1I can take out ...