samba group map

558 byte By was-that-broken-b4a at 2007-11-27 10:10:54
Hi,I've download and installed samba-3.0.25a for Sol5.10(plus dependencies) from sunfreeware no problem.. I've even joined my Active Directory as a member server, listed AD groups and users using wbinfo and 'groupmap'ed an AD group I'm a member of against a UNIX group I'm also a member of. ...

perl performance on solaris 10

311 byte By uttam_namea at 2007-11-27 10:11:38
hi all, i executed this ( http://www.metacard.com/perlbench.html) script on solaris 10 and linux machine. Solaris box took around 15sec to complete the test where as linux box took only 8 seconds. Is there any way to increase the perfomance of perl on solaris 10. ...

How to disable the password change request forever?

572 byte By pentschoa at 2007-11-27 10:11:41
Hello I have Solaris 10 OS on my machines. I don't ever want to change the password I've set - that's why I set MINWEEKS and MAXWEEKS to "0" in /etc/default/passwd and thereafter I've reset the password. But what a surprise: today I could not remotely login on the machine and got the message: $ ...

cannot come out of intallation

193 byte By uniq1a at 2007-11-27 10:12:09
<p>hai </p><p>i am installing solaris on server .</p><p>i do not have sun keyboard .</p><p>and i want to come out of installation</p><p>can anyone suggest solution</p><p>thanks </p><p>priya</p>

SC 3.2 & Oracle

676 byte By pbala at 2007-11-27 10:13:24
Hi all:2 nodes and 7-30 databases. Start in 7 databases and grow to 30. So I guess I need 7-30 resource group, 1 per database.This 7-30 are spread in both nodes. If 1 node fails, databases switch to the other node.Which is overhead of switching 10 oracles resource groups, for instance? Could it ...

Solaris 10 in dept documentation

182 byte By Nico_Callewaerta at 2007-11-27 10:13:33
<p>Hi list,</p><p>I am completely new to Solaris. I would like to buy a book that covers</p><p>Solaris 10 in dept. Any idea about a very good book ?</p><p>Many thanks in advance,</p>

long listing of files

271 byte By kaush28a at 2007-11-27 10:14:25
<p>Hi guys!</p><p>Does any one knows what is the quick way of getting ls -la output in solaris? I worked with HPUX for 8 years and used " ll " command for that. Now I am having problems in solaris with this command ( force of habit).</p><p>Thanks in advance!</p><p>MK</p>

display on Solaris10

366 byte By madhavansreea at 2007-11-27 10:14:34
HiI installed solaris 10 on my dell optiplex 740It has NVIDIA(R) Quadro(R) NVS 210SiNorth BridgejAnForce 430iSouth Bridgej display.But it is not in the list of supported ones for solaris 10-> http://www.nvidia.com/object/solaris_supported.htmlHow do I make the display work for this?Thanks in ...

Next Solaris relese

90 byte By kavinnilaa at 2007-11-27 10:14:44
<p>Anybody know when the next update of solaris due for release (last one was 11/06).?</p>

Multi thread on multi cpu on SunOS 5.8

2078 byte By _ric_a at 2007-11-27 10:15:20
Hi,I've got a program running 5 differents threads.On my local machine, each thread is running in the same time that the others.On AIX, I can see that all CPUs run the diffferents threads.But on Solaris 5.8, it seems that the java process used only one CPUMy server :Solaris SunOS 5.816 CPU ...

mirror with different disk size

581 byte By manu.ita at 2007-11-27 10:15:28
Hi alla newbe question regarding Sun-Blade-150 with solaris 8:I have to mirror with SDS my existing disk that is a Western DigitalWD400BB (40.0GB - 7200 RPM UltraATA/100).my supplier told me that disk is no more avaiable and proposed me tobuy a 80.0GB disk of the same model.If i buy th 80.0GB disk, ...

Patch 121309-09 for Trusted Solaris 8?

156 byte By fcbsecia at 2007-11-27 10:15:42
<p>Will an equivalent patch to 121309-09 be released for Trusted Solaris 8? If not does Sun Alert 102903 apply to Trusted Solaris 8 and SMC 2.0? Thanks.</p>

cd ejects automatically

550 byte By sandeep1979a at 2007-11-27 10:16:30
hi all,i have installed solaris 10 on my intel pc.everything is fine instead my cd samsung make cd writer i am not able to mount.whenever i put a cd into it and loads the tray. it ejects automatically after 3 seconds.i treid stopping vold. and manually mounting cd rom but it did not help.when i ...

Acrobat Reader

184 byte By bezgodoa at 2007-11-27 10:16:36
<p>Hello,</p><p>please, can someone direct me to where to get Acrobat 7 or 8 for solaris 10 x86. Next , is it possible to install the .rpm version of Linux on solaris.</p><p>Thanks</p>

At what run level to power off

115 byte By farmboya at 2007-11-27 10:17:31
<p>Is run level 0 (the ok prompt) the best "place" to be when powering of the box (Sunfire V280) ?</p><p>Thanks</p>

Kernel Error

678 byte By Ariva1a at 2007-11-27 10:19:20
Since today morning I have been facing one error on the console of Sun Fire v890 server which is related to Kernel.Below you find the errror messages:Jul 12 12:38:13 nus620 unix: /platform/sun4u/kernel/misc/sparcv9/sbd: undefined symbol 'sbdp_portid_to_cpu_unit'Jul 12 12:38:13 nus620 unix: ...

No cursor in Solaris 10

89 byte By tuotruta at 2007-11-27 10:19:34
<p>When I boot into Solaris 10 the screen doesn't display a mouse cursor.</p><p>Eric</p>

ZONE - /var file system has not enough space to grow crash filesystem

595 byte By hemakrish@suna at 2007-11-27 10:19:35
we have zone configured solaris 10 server.It throws the alert message of "panic". The error message is "not enough space in /var/crash/<servername>"From the du -sk command, i found crash directory occupies more space. I dont know what are the files are unnecessary for deletion. The files are ...

DS6 in Sun cluster

477 byte By aus-ita at 2007-11-27 10:21:00
HiI am doing DS 5.2 migrate to DS6.1. I have DS5.2 and messaging server 6.2 in cluster environment. I am OK with migration process but how to replace existing ldap resource in cluster with the new setting. My messaging resource is dependent on ldap (5.2) resource. I would like to add new ldap ...

Virtual interfaces' IP

314 byte By luissmaa at 2007-11-27 10:23:52
Hi, I'd like to know if it is possible to see connections, from outside the server, coming from the IP set up on a virtual interface or if I will always see the one from the real interface.Is there any kernel parameter where I can specify the system to use the virtual IPs ?Thanks in ...

PGX64 drivers

252 byte By jesabina at 2007-11-27 10:25:24
<p>Hi </p><p>I am just having problems finding Solaris 10 drivers for this PGX64 video card, can anyone point me in the right direction. I know how to get it installed, just can't find them </p><p>Thanks</p><p>Message was edited by: </p><p>jesabin</p>

Many services are in maintening state and with similar error: Property exec

6000 byte By amokvna at 2007-11-27 10:26:42
Hi all,I got an urgent case and need help. After one maintenance reboot tonight, our Sun V240 server (running Solaris 10) got problem with the like below:Rebooting with command: bootBoot device: /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2/disk@0,0:a File and args: SunOS Release 5.10 Version Generic_118822-27 ...

Problem installing solaris on laptop with intel 965 graphics card

380 byte By DeepankarBairagia at 2007-11-27 10:27:13
Unable to start X. Went through the text-based installation, everything else wentokay. After installation when booting, X windows start failed again and complainedabout vesa driver. Build: SXDE build 64a. Machine: dell latitude D630 with intel 965integrated graphics. Wondering if some patch needs ...

Solaris 10 apache does not auto start at boot

751 byte By Pi0neera at 2007-11-27 10:27:21
HelloI have installed solaris 10 on a sun machine and later added the security toolkit 4.2. I need the apache server running which I have to do manually once the system reboots. Later on further advise I made apache as Identity Manager service through solaris service management facility. I have ...

Solaris 10 disk mirror partition goes in maintenance mode at reboot

529 byte By Pi0neera at 2007-11-27 10:27:22
HelloI have got solaris 10 installed on a Sun machine with 2 disks mirrorred to each other. There also security toolkit 4.2 installed. Now every time the system reboots and I do a metastat the mirror partitions goes in maintenance mode and I have to individually metasync the mirrors after every ...

Solaris x86 VS Solaris SPARC

93 byte By 54645a at 2007-11-27 10:28:14
<p>Hi </p><p>Can any one tell me the merits and deerits of the x86 and SPARC</p><p>Thanks</p>

Need Jre 1.5.0_11 for solaris9

122 byte By sundaresana at 2007-11-27 10:30:41
<p>Hi i need Jre 1.5.0_11 for my sparc 64 bit bit solaris system .Can any one provide me the link to download the same</p>

Help mounting disks on a fresh Solaris 10 11/06 install on E3000

373 byte By kamau-na at 2007-11-27 10:31:20
Hi all, I just completed a fresh installation on an Enterpise 3000 that had Solaris 7 with 10 disks. Only the disks with the OS got mounted by the installation process, and I cannot figure how to mount the other disks. I have manually added the entries to vsftab but am hessitant to modify mnttab. ...

primary & secondary group

350 byte By dkbleea at 2007-11-27 10:33:10
hi! I'm new to solaris.I would like to know how do i add a user into a primary group and multiple secondary group using command line? Can give an example on that?Another question is how do i assign rights to a user using command line? eg. how do i assign "primary administrator" role/rights to a ...

no gui

636 byte By aakasha at 2007-11-27 10:33:12
Hello all,I have a veryyyy unique problem. I have a laptop with 945gm chip set.I installed solaris 9 but the gui didnt start, instead it dropped me to console, and no matter how much i tried i couldnt get my x server started.So i installed solaris 10....but the same problemI than bought a belenix ...

Limit No of CPU's visible in the Non Global Zone

331 byte By Ramneeksa at 2007-11-27 10:35:16
HiWe have 24 CPU Domain with Solaris 10 U4We have a requirement where we need a non-global zone which shows total no of CPU's as 4 within this domain. It's application licensing requirement.Can somebody suggest is it possible and if somebody has tried it how can this be done.Thanks in ...

VCS to Sun Cluster migration

159 byte By maxpila at 2007-11-27 10:35:42
<p>I am planning to migrate a 2-node cluster from VCS to Sun Cluster. how much downtime does this involve? is there any documentation that i can reference?</p>

Trouble with slave disk

777 byte By anil.samuela at 2007-11-27 10:35:45
I get the following as partition for a disk I added as slave.partition> printCurrent partition table (original):Total disk cylinders available: 17660 + 2 (reserved cylinders)PartTagFlagCylinders SizeBlocks 0 unassignedwm0 - 176598.49GB(17660/0/0) 17801280 1 unassignedwm00 (0/0/0)0 2backupwu0 - ...

E450 won't power up

528 byte By npeasea at 2007-11-27 10:36:00
Hello all! I am new here and also fairly new to SUN hardware. I have an E450 that I am playing with, but I can't get it to power up. I have a sun keyboard and mouse hooked up along with a sun monitor. When I flip the power supply botton on the back to on there are some green lights that light up. ...

few newbie questions

769 byte By Alex_Sa at 2007-11-27 10:36:35
hi there.i just installed the OS (11/06) on x86 box and have a few questions. 1. after the install has ended and i logged in, how do i check if all my hardware was detected properly? i tried menus in 'launch' but didn't find anything.2. any guidance on how to mirror a drive? i have 3 pairs of ...

please help me extract info from tape

963 byte By aliansa at 2007-11-27 10:36:39
I have a client that wishes to extract data from tape. The tape was produced using cpio commands on an unknown unix machine. The tape is a SLR5 4/8gb. The client purchased a drive for me. I installed the drive on my compaq deskpro En series PII/400 . The drive is scsi, and I connected it with an ...

Can I setup Solaris 10 and Windows XP correspoing on only one HDD?

224 byte By TuanAnhTrana at 2007-11-27 10:36:56
<p>Dear all!</p><p>My PC has only one HDD, but some time, I need the Windows XP to do my private working, and so, I do not know how to set up Windows XP and Solaris corresponding within my PC? </p><p>Thank you very much!</p>

Patches for Solaris Express, Developer Edition

261 byte By calmanFischera at 2007-11-27 10:37:25
<p>Are there patches for sxde somewhere around? Or do I just have to install the solaris 10 patches? the update manager doesn't work on my system, though every other java application which connects to the internet works, so I have to install them manually.</p>

trying to install solaris 10 on sun file v210

3340 byte By lydia.hecka at 2007-11-27 10:38:02
Rebooting with command: boot net - install nowinBoot device: /pci@1f,700000/network@2 File and args: - install nowin1000 Mbps FDX Link upTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetTimeout waiting for ARP/RARP packetTimeout waiting for ...

mount usb thumbdrive

305 byte By SunOSnewbiea at 2007-11-27 10:38:54
hi there,need your help.i run #volcheck when i'd like to detect the mounted floppy disk.what about usb thumbdrive? wud like to mount it and access it but i cant see is when i run df -k.please help how i can mount my thumbdrive and the files on ...

Pools not dynamically resizing

3070 byte By jnawka at 2007-11-27 10:38:57
Hi All,I'm having trouble getting pools to resize properly - I have followed all the steps in the documentation, but ultimately, when it goes to resize the pools, I get the following in /var/log/pool/poold:Jul 16 12:48:29 Monitoring DEBUG: samplingJul 16 12:48:29 Optimization DEBUG: checking ...

How to get man working ?

496 byte By Maddena at 2007-11-27 10:39:27
HelloI don't know how my man command is not working any more. Probably after one of the updates from Sun update connection.The man executable is running fine, but it can't find any man pages.I triedman manman ifconfigand it says there is no man page for man or for ifconfig, although my MANPATH ...

How to change hostname ?

346 byte By Maddena at 2007-11-27 10:39:35
HelloMy hostname is currently unknown and I would like to change it, but when I tryhostname batman the new hostname only lasts until the next restart.How can I change the hostname so that it will persist after restart ? Where does Solaris keep the host name ?Thank you,Timohty ...

Graphical installation not working on my laptop?

347 byte By SilverLinkX2a at 2007-11-27 10:40:23
Hi I have a Dell Inspiron E1505 with an ATI Mobility x1400 and whenever I use the Solaris 10 DVD to try and install whenever I select graphics installation option I get corrupted graphics and I have to restart. Does anybody know how to fix this? Whenever I try to use text installation I can never ...

Upgrade SOL9 to 10, install complete but pb witch CD2?

1307 byte By PetiteBullea at 2007-11-27 10:42:53
Hi everybody,I am trying to install SOL10 on a SUN V120, and the installation goes well, CD1 finishes with install complete, then reboots and asks me for CD2 but once CD2 inserted I get error messages:"Error for command : read(10) --FatalRequested block : 10207Error blockVendor : TEAC Serial ...

Error loading the.so library

411 byte By mrunal_na at 2007-11-27 10:43:13
Hi All,I am using Solaris 10. This is Sun T2000 Server. While installing my application I am getting following error:Error loading the .so library (fielname):couldn't load file "<full path>.so : ld.so.1: install: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_WDISP22: file <full path>.so : symbol _cerror: ...

Libraries Installed During Solaris 10 Installation.

474 byte By jaydesai93a at 2007-11-27 10:43:14
Hi AllMy Solaris Administrator had installed Solaris 10 11/06 with patch 119963-07.Could someone please tell me whether the following libraries would have been installed with the above mentioned installation? If not then from where can i get these libraries:-lifisam-lifisamx ...

Cannot mount USB disk in SIngle-user mode (solaris 10)

924 byte By sakolana at 2007-11-27 10:43:26
Hi all ,I need some help please :I can read/write to my USB disks when i'm in muti-user mode but when to I swith to single-user mode ( init S ), I cannot mount it.in Single-user mode , i started volume management daemon :#/etc/init.d/volgmt start#volcheckbut i'm still not able to mount it.I tried ...

Migrating the Solaris version

236 byte By resource_namea at 2007-11-27 10:43:50
<p>Hi,</p><p>We have Solaris 9 with the Sun cluster 3.2 and the Netbackup application is 5.1 MP4, now we are planned to upgrade the Solaris version form 9 to Solaris 10.</p><p>Could you please provide me an Idea How to upgrade this?</p>

Cluster mgmt of off-network (multihomed) addresses

960 byte By pochena at 2007-11-27 10:44:46
I'm currently in the process of configuring an HA cluster to replace a single machine. The original machine had virtual interfaces plumbed for several different networks, which remote sites connect to for FTP and other data. I'd like to know how to do the same using the cluster (3.1 on Solaris 9 ...