Hi,I want to just use Solaris 10 as a normal standalone worksation and would like to completely disable the autofs/automounter function.Is this advisable? If so how is it done properly?thanks

Hi,I would like to put all the root config files and have a/root home directory like Linux. How would I do this?thanks

I successfully installed Solaris 10 GA on a Dell GX400. I can see other computers on my network, but when I try to access the Internet, I get errors indicating that the browser cannot find the URLs I input (including sun.com). I cannot see any problem in my nsswitch.conf, resolv.conf, or ...

The system I am working on already has an SCTP stack implementation and it seems to fails to run on Solaris 10 because of what i think is a conflict between the local OS stack implementation and our own developed stack.My problems stems from the fact that our custom SCTP implementation relies ...

<I apologize for replicating the post. The previous has a wrong title >I installed Solaris 10 rel. 03/05 on a Ultra 60 (2x360) Elite3D with 256 MBThe installation went perfectly (I reinstalled 2 times the second time formatting the HD)The dt login doesn`t starteven setting ...

I installed solaris 10 on my Dell Latitude D800 laptop (it is listed on the BigAdmin HCL for Solaris 10). After installation resolution was low (probably 640x480). I searched web and found some infoon web for a Linux configuration and used that asguideline to setup xorg.conf (using xorgconfig ...

Hello,Has anyone sucessfully installed Solaris 10 GA 03/05 on a Dell PowerEdge4400 with (2) 700Mhz Xeon processors. I am getting this error messageand cannot resolve it:"I20 Nexus: Initializing IO Processor 0: FAILED". Any work around orany idea what this error message refers to?Thank you in ...

Seems like a lot of people are having the same problem as i have , that X is not launched when booting up machine.I have tried to install Solaris 4 times now. With different package setups, all setups using all packages in the chosen group.All 4 times the installation has been successful, no ...

Hi,I am seriously considering using Solaris 10 for my Java dev. My only concern is about the driver base that ships with it. I am not sure my Broadband company offers any support other than for MS XP platform (probably mates of Gates!) so I need to know if my broadband will work without a huge ...

Hello there,Just wondering, when the RSC software will be avalable for Solaris 10 also, I can see it's avalable for Solaris 8 and 9.I have this Enterprise 250 with RSC card installed, but software does not follow Solaris 10.At current moment, I'm trying out the Solaris 9 version, to see if it ...

I have been utterly unable to successfully install S10 on hardware that FreeBSD and many linux flavors work on. Can someone *please* point me to informational resources that might help me understand what I need to do to get it working?I posted a query last week, but the support volunteers ...

Hello everyone*I know this is not Solaris 10/software related but I am at a lost where to ask for help with this.I have a ultra 2, dual CPU (300's) system and it has an older openboot. (I don't have the exact revision number with me but can have it later) and I would like to upgrade it but ...

Whenever I'm using gnome-terminal, as included with Sun Java Desktop 3, and I'm running a program such as less, or vim, these programs do not respond to my use of insert, home, end, page up, or page down keys.I'm using bash for my shell$TERM is set to 'xterm'.I have the same problem when ...

Guys (repost from the wrong forum),with Solaris 10 and Zones, is it possible to lock a zone to a particular physical network interface? Is it possible that only that zone (and not the root zone) has access to that particular interface?I'm wondering about the suitablity of Solaris 10 on a ...

I have just installed Solaris 10 today, and no matter what I do, I can't get the hostname to be anything other than UNKNOWN.Here's a little about the setup (in the hope that it will help isolate the problem):When installed, DHCP was chosen. I use a SmoothWall firewall which is also my DHCP ...

hellothe file /etc/init.d/lp used to be in the package SUNWpsr on solaris 8, in solaris 10 it isnt anymoreto which package did it get moved to?thanks

I have Solaris 10 Installed on my HP Ombibook 4150B (256MB-RAM 40GB-HD) all is working just great, but i cant' bring up a 3C589C network card pluged onto TI PCI1225 cardbus slot 0 is there any body that can help me?Thanks

HiI have some basic questions regarding Solaris 10 on Opteron (V40z) and would appreciate some advice.1. If I run 32-bit Solaris on the V40z will I only be able to use 4GB of memory, even if the server has more. Is this a system-wide limit or just a per-application limit?2. If I install 64-bit ...

Hi,I am not sure whether this is an appropriate forum to post this questionbut I first tried the "Sun Java Desktop System Support Forums" but was told that they do not cover the Sun supplied JDS .We are in the process to migrate our workstations from Solaris 9/Gnome 2.0to Solaris 10 with JDS 3. ...

Hi there ,I tried to play DVD or VCD with Totem , but it doesn't work at all !I asked the developer of this software and he told me that DVD-playing is only inplemented in the newer versions , so why doesSun implement something in their packages that doesn't work ?Anyway , he gave me a link ...

I've installed Sol 10 GA x86 to a USB drive and boot via GRUB chainloader into "(hd1,2)" . The USB drive "hd1" is visible in the BIOS.Now the Solaris bootloader starts but cannot continune as it is unable to find its own disk it is actually running from - it only offers the IDE disk and IDE ...

Apologize if this has been asked before, but I could not find anything on it.Where do you find the instructions for "DVD Assembley?"The link on the download page doesn't take me to anything that resembles that information.TIA,ArDee

I spent a while trying to find the Solaris Management Console in Solaris 10 via Java Desktop System so I could easily create a number of users etc. I found it and ran it and was pleasantly suprised to see it run OK first time. I logged in with root username and password and all seemed to be ...

I upgraded to Solaris 10 and I am using the Java Desktop on my Blade 100. I love it. But there is one slightly annoying problem, the mute button doesn't work anymore. If I press the mute button on the keybaord the speaker icon in the corner gets the red line through it but the sound is ...

This USB-Mouse will not work with Solaris 10. I have the bluetooth-set Logitech DiNovokeyboard and MX900 mouse. As seen in the following logfile, the keyboard is recognized andthe device is created, but the mouse fails. So i have to use my old dusty ps/2 mousewith this nice keyboard as a ...

We're looking at building an AMD64 storage controller which we'd like to use with Solaris 10 to manage a large ZFS array. We're wanting the ZFS array to consist of 24 SATA drives. The question is what controllers should we use? The motherboard we intend to use, the Tyan S2882, has only 4 ...

I have tried a number of times to get the latest download to install on my headless E250 using the text installer. Most times it installs the 1st cd then reboots only to report that "the file just loaded does not appear to be executable". This is taking the default options, installing the full ...

I've been looking around for a solution to this problem, but nobody seems to have one. I have found some other posts with the same issue, but no solutions. Can anybody help me, or am I just doomed not to install solaris 10. The message prompts right after booting with the first installtion CD. ...

Hi to all. I installed Solaris10/x86 from dvd, and the installation is ok. When i start Solaris Management Console, i can't open the User Accounts tool; the error message is: "file:/solaris/solaris domain doesn't exist or can't be managed". But in the toolbox editor i specified that the ...

Here's my environment:Solaris 10 SPARC (from release DVD isos)Sun Blade 100PowerBook G4 17" w/OS X 10.3.8 and X11 1.0 - XFree86 4.3.0 (same problems under 10.3.7)I have configured X11 forwarding on the Blade (sshd) and Mac client. (ssh). This seems to work for all X11 apps on the Blade, EXCEPT ...

For any others that are struggling to use libtool with the included GNU build tools in Solaris 10:It appears as though someone left out a proper libstdc++.la in /usr/sfw/lib and /usr/sfw/lib/64.Try these:/usr/sfw/lib/libstdc++.la-# libstdc++.la - a libtool library file# Generated by ltmain.sh - ...

Hi, I created an account in Solaris 10 and it is a member of System Admin group, however, when I want to su -from that account, I encountered the following msg:ksh: cannot execute suI edited the PATH for that account to made it same as the other System Admin, but still can't solve the problem. ...

I know what you're thinking, another hardware support gripe. :)First of all, I'd like to say that despite not being able to use my network card, view DVDs, use my sound card or laser printer with Solaris 10, I am extremely impressed with the professional GUI design and the ease of use of its ...

I am trying to run the JDK 1.1.8 that comes with Oracle 9.2 installer on Solaris 10 Beta 72 and it fails. It complains with the message:ld.so.1: /export/home/oracle/jre/1.1.8/bin/sparc/native_threads/jre: fatal: relocation error: file ...

Hi,While I was installing Solaris 10 the wheel on my mouse was working. Now once installed it is not working. Any sujestions?thanks in advance.

I'm trying to configure the Sun supplied version of Samba (/usr/sfw - v.3.04) and having no luck. I keep getting "access denied" when connecting from a XP workstation. It maps the drive to the file shares but keeps saying access denied when I try to browse them. The smbd and nmbd logs are ...

I have not been able to get Solaris 10 x86 to "see" my NICs. I have an Intel board with a 10/100 adapter and a PCI Linksys LNE100TX adapter plugged in. I tried Sun's instructions for loading adapters and it is as if they are not there.I checked the HCL and I don't see any NIC which is ...

Somewhat after 50% of part 4, this is what I get:Assertion failed: np->rn_parent == pp [.....]file rc_node.c, line 1353[and some more lines]What is wrong ? Do I have to download / burn the CD again ?

I have a 2 Way Manual Monitor / Keyboard / Mouse Switch Box which is connected to a Solaris 10 box & a Windows box. Since I installed Solaris 10 beta 69 on the box whenever I switch to an existing Gnome session using the switch box, the mouse no longer responds, the cursor just sits there. ...

Is there any general help available ? I've been browsing around, but the topics are quite specific.I did the install as specified, selecting everything (is there any package list per CD ?), started. Disk 2 was not recognized properly. What is great: I could continue with Disk 3 and 4 instead. ...

Hej!How can I mount a NTFS partition under Solaris 10?thx

Hi All,I would like to create a flash image of a balde 100 with a SUNWrneq install. I tried to flash this install by booting off the cdrom in single user mode.I originally loaded the HD with 2 partitions; / on s0 and swap on s1, then I mounted so to /a on the cdrom and then I ran the following ...

Has anyone tried Solaris 10 x86 on an nForce4 board? If so, how well or poorly does it work?

I'm thinking about setting up a small site that I hope will grow to become something of a 'self-help' guide for Solaris. It will be authored by anyone who knows what they're doing, ie you guys (I hope!)Basically, what I want to do is keep a list of functions and have some guides written on ...

I tried to do a Solaris 9 404 Upgrade to Solaris 10 on my Ultra 10 with SVM mirrored system drives and it wouldn't get past the Upgrade Profile Initialisation section. It stayed there for a long time, maybe 20 minutes and finally came up with a Failed screen. It compalined about a missing ...

I am having problems using ipf stream module on sppp0 pseudo interface.I have tried adding ipf with ifconfig modinsert then unplumbing sppp0 and plumbing back sppp0, it does not work.I have tried, as recommended in sun's System Administration Guide: IP Services, to autopush pfil on sppp but ...

For my housekeeping, I need to be monitoring files in a specific diretory by its size. Is there a command that can give me the filesizes that are > 0. Thanks.

Has anyone tried using probe-based IPMP on Solaris10? I'm doing some testing on my Ultra10 (2 HME's) and when I fire up probe-based IPMP within 10 seconds both interfaces get flagged as failed. Link-based IPMP works fine. Anyone else having problems?

I'm a new user of Sun Solaris 10, I used linux before, but I'm a little lost under solaris.I've got a 5.1 sound card and 5.1 speakers, but I didn't find any sound mixer that can enable this surround.I didn't know what is the Solaris 10 sound system, and I didn't know how he work.My sound ...

I have got a really bad problem in the Solaris Configuration manager.I've got a french keyboard (Microsoft Internet Keyboard), and I have got some key of the numpad who doesn't work, is it "0,-,+,."This is a really nasty bug for typing a password.