Hi,I developed this recipe for earlier releases of Solaris 10, which worked ok: http://slashdot.org/~toby/journal/135285With 11/06, however, I see only the X11 grey desktop, not the desktop login.Any clues?

I am very new to Solaris .Downloaded x86 Solaris 10 software to install on my machine of intel processor .My Questions are:we havent understand what x86 is ? can we install the software succesfully with network configuration on my machine intel pentium 4.Is this Solaris 10 supports to configure ...

Guys,I have a freshly installed Sun box with Solaris 10 installed on it. I think Samba is meant to be installed with Solaris but I can't find it. So I was hoping to download and install then configure Samba myself from sunfreeware etc. If anyone can give me some help i'd be very grateful. ...

Greetings,Recently after a crahs inetd is refusing to run, I issue a:svcadm enable inetdAnd then svcs -a | grep inetAnd it says offline.I looked in /var/svc/log/network-inetd:default.logAnd the last lines are[Mar today time Disabled]That磗 it, no more information.Any ideas how can I fix this? ...

I'm running Express version of Solaris on X86 machine. Yesterday the trash icon disappeared. Today I put it back in the panel but it still won't throw out the trash. What is the path to the trash folder?80 gigs filled up in only 3 days !Dan

Hi,Anyone tried to run NX Server on Solaris? I get the error down below:NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 1424NX> 285 Enabling check on switch commandNX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config filesNX> 285 Setting the preferred NX optionsNX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.1.1 on port: ...

i want to make a user that has rights to login command and has a right to use the command 'find / -name .....and following options' this is the steps i did to assign a user the logins command 1. added the entry in the /etc/security/prof_attr filethe entry is as follows AGscript:::can perform ...

i started exe file but after 47% program writes "Cannot allocate enough memory. The program has been closed without installing." What have i do?

Hello, i have a trouble whit these servicesvc:/network/physical:defaultI don磘 know what kind of Network card i have on a SunBlade150>#touch /etc/hostname.hme0#touch /etc/hostname.eri0When i have restarted the service svcadm -v restart network/physical:defaultThe service went to maintenance.I ...

How to get-out svc:/network/physical:default from MaintenanceHello, i have a trouble whit these servicesvc:/network/physical:defaultI don磘 know what kind of Network card i have on a SunBlade150>#touch /etc/hostname.hme0#touch /etc/hostname.eri0When i have restarted the service svcadm -v ...

Hi All,This is my first post here. I am preparing to install Solaris 10 on a new system I have just built. Over the past few years I have gone completely away from Microsoft products toward Linux, running servers built around Fedora Core 3-5 and Mandriva 2006 OSs.I seems to be the only one here ...

Hi,Recently I have purchased a new PC with Intel Core 2 Duo Processor and Intel 965SS motherboard and a SATA DriveI am unable to install Solaris 10 on this machine.I tried both Solaris 10 32 bit and 64 bit.When I tried to install Solaris 10 32 bit on the VmWare software, it almost completes the ...

Hi,I have a headless V20z running S10, and an interesting serial port issue -- one which I'm sure is trivial to solve yet the correct keystrokes have eluded me.The basic problem is that two getty's are running on one port. That is, connecting a serial cable to the COM-A interface elicits the ...

I want to partition my hard drive to have Windows SP Media Center version 2005 with update rollup 2, Ubuntu latest version and Solaris 10! However I am having trouble getting either ubuntu or solaris 10 to be in either boot menu? How do I enable this?

I have an Ultra 10 and can't load Solaris 10 because of an error that the machine won't support the operating system. So I tried to reload Solaris 8 after a format and receive an ata_timeout c0 d0 error and I don't know how to get around this to load the software. Any ideas anyone?

Hello,We have several zones installed in /export/zones. /export/zones is using ZFS as its file system.We would like to make backups (preferrably to tape), but get the following messages when we try:tcas:root> ufsdump 0uf /dev/rmt/0cn /export/zones/idmtest DUMP: `/export/zones/idmtest' is ...

Recently I setup a sun box with a zone, everything is setup by default.The issue is I can access the zone with no problem from my machine (different subnet), weird thing is that I can not connect to my sun box.Here is the setup.Sun server IP: 192.168.0.11zone: 192.168.0.22Switch (two vlans, ...

How can I get the device name (e.g. /dev/hda, /dev/sda) where a directory (e.g. /) is placed? Thnx

Hello;I know this may have been asked before but updating my system broke system management console. I read the only way to fix it is to patch with 120272-06 but that is only available with a service plan. Did anyone else run into this roadblock?Thank you;Dean S.

Solaris 10U3, any ideas?ice# bootadm update-archive -vcannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directorycannot find: /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: No such file or directoryice#

Hi all !I've searched the forum topics for quite some time before deciding to post my own topic, because I just installed Solaris 10 on a virtual machine via Parallels Desktop for Mac (on a MacBook Pro), and I still have some unsolveds :1) I can't connect to the Internet ; my ISP is AOL (no ...

Are all daemons started the same way or do they vary? I have some veritas daemons that need to be started ie vxcached in Veritas or inetd daemon.

Hey guys, I just intalled solaris 10 and after the upgrade I am not able to telnet or ftp to the machine. It only allows me to ssh. Please let me know how to enable telnet and ftp on it?Thanks

I'm trying to add a user in Solaris, which I can do. However, there are problems when I login as the newly added user:As root:- Created the jdoe account: 'useradd jdoe' I verified the jdoe account was created via useradd by looking at /etc/passwd.- Create a home directory for the user named ...

Can Solaris 10 zones (sparse or full, global or non-global) be moved from a SPARC system to an x86 system (eg by storing the zone(s) on ZFS, given ZFS zpools can be moved between SPARC and x86 systems)?Thanks in advance,Stewart

hi,my cdrom is frozen, when i put a cd into the cdrom i can't brows itit shows me the old cd nameexample:first i put the Solaris10 cd then i removed it then i put another cd but it keep showing me the name of the Solrais10 cd name and i can't get into the new cdwhat might be the ...

Hi all,Here's my problem. I have Solaris 10 setup with a working rtls0 card. I can ping my own computer by name, i.e., ping neptune, I can pin my router, ping 192.168.1.1, and I can nslookup www.sun.com just fine as well. My problem is when I try to ping www.sun.com. I don't get any answer. ...

We have one server with Solaris 10 and four non-global zones. I installed patch 122032-03 to the global zone and it installed successfull, according to the log. With the DST change on 3/11, TWO of the non-global zones and the global zone updated correctly to daylight time, but the other TWO ...

I am trying to mount an NFS share with permissions for a normal user to copy files. I keep getting the error: nfs mount: insufficient privileges if I try to use the mount command as the user. If I mount the share a root, then I can't copy files to the share unless i'm root.This is to a linux ...

Hi All ,Could you please tell me how to configure in ALOM Sun Fire T2000.Regards,R. Rajesh Kannan.

Is there something that needs to be disabled for faster startup after reboot ?( I think the problem with the slow startup may be related to extended BIOS checks after a reboot )

Hi folks,When I connect to ssh or telnet deamon from remote client (but also locally on server), I get a connection and login, but when I try to authenticate with root account it looks like the account info is not valid. But it really is!! I'm sure of that cause when I login from server ...

There are two non-global zones running on my system. the while loop always skips out after the zlogin command-line is commpleted in the first non-global zone listed in zoneadm list, when I run zlogin in a while loop. what is the wrong in the script here?#!/usr/bin/ksh/usr/sbin/zoneadm list -p | ...

Hello , I am a newbie with solaris and do not know much .I installed solaris 10 update 3 and followed this tutorial : http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/howtoguides/postgresqlhowto.jsp to install postgreSQL as Solaris service , which worked great . I am now trying to define JBoss Application ...

The directory structure , in Solaris, is different , than the Linux setup, for one thing and compiling packages is made more difficult because of it. For instance , there is no LOCAL/USR/ directory and many commands are not in /usr/bin/ as expected by most packages. Are there any good articles ...

Clock of all players is two time faster than the real time and system clock.Such a mysterious behaviour is concerned to all players installed:Java Media PlayerRealPlayerMad playerThis corrupted clock results in double frequences etc.What is this?

How can I determine which build of Solaris 10 is installed?I am seeing differences in operation between two different Solaris 10 (Sparc) installations.ThanksDoug

Hi All, I have a question..i want to understand the crontab I would like to know what SHELL being used to execute scripts defined in crontab? For ex: crontab has getcompanies.ksh shell script.But if i dont specify #!/bin/ksh in the script.what shell does the crontab uses to run the script ?i ...

I've searched extensively, but am unable to find and download the correct CIMOM for the Sun/STK 6140 array?Thanks in advance for any help/pointers.-Wayne

I umount one filesystem like this:# umount -F /export/home1Then I tried to mount it back as:# mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6 /export/home1mount: I/O errormount: cannot mount /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6partition /dev/dsk/c1t0d0s6 and directory /export/home1 all exist in the system. Why can I not mount it back. ...

Hi,I have an Ultra 20 with a Unix type 7 keyboard. What do the diamond keys next to the space bar do? What about the blank key above the escape key? Is there a reference for all of this somewhere?

Hi everyone!!i installed Solaris OS twice on my systemi have vista previously on this...i made a partition for sol...after installation solaris boots fine but windows is totally corrupted and doestn boot normallyill have to erase the whole computers HD and then reinstall it againboth the OSs ...

Hi!Is there any way to extract files from Solaris package file (.pkg) without root privilege?Like I can do it for rpm: rpm2cpio foo-2.0.i386.rpm | cpio -ivmud

My ISP wants my MTA to authenticate itself.Under a standard sendmail 8.13.7 one can useFEATURE(authinfo)and the file authinfo with a proper entry to make the sendmail to authenticate itself.But there is noFEATURE(authinfo)under Sun version of sendmail.What shall I ...

Hello,I just burned Solaris 10 to a disk so I can install it. However, I am preparing to partition my hard drive. I wanted to know how much space I should parition for Solaris 10 and what file structure I should use (FAT, FAT32, NTSF, etc. ). Where can I find information about installing ...

I have xp and solaris dual booted on a laptop. im currently using solaris' bootloader as well. i now want to remove solaris from my laptop and install another unix os but i don't want to lose any data on the xp parition. how can i switch off of the solaris bootloader and back to the xp ...

Hi,I have solaris 10 x86 running in my desktop. I need to have windows simultaneously. VMware not helped me at this moment. I heard something like QEMU. Can anyone help me out on this.Is there any other tool helps to run windows on solaris desktop?Please advice. Urgent!!!Appreciate your ...

hi allI'm totally new to any solaris systems and would like to kindly ask you to help me to setup my internet connection.I've a switch and under windows I used to use settings "direct connection", switch has DHCP so I need sth like "get IP adress automatically" and so on with DNS. I tried to ...

Hi,I plan to install Solaris on my PC. I wonder which one I should install, Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris? Is there any difference between them?Thanks,Zhongze

I have setted the print queue using the admintool in Solaris 9.How can I set the print queue in Solaris 10?