Re: [osol-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
I'd like to help out where possible. There are definitely use cases that the sysadmin community could help out with. There has been a lot of discussion lately about installation, configuration, and management of opensolaris. In the LDoms community, we could also get involved. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [osol-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Steven Acres
Jim Walker wrote: This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it on Use Cases since that is what we really are needing. There were several people interested in being part of a project like this. All input

Re: [osol-discuss] Sharing files/directories with Windows

2009-08-14 Thread Randy Wynn
Currently the storage is attached to the Windows server and I need to place files there to be backed up to tape. I am trying to get the Windows admin to add an ssh server so I could just scp the files via script. The CIFS on Solaris looks like a future item to solve storage both directions. My

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Uros Nedic
Count on me for OpenSolaris Desktop and Development Tools. OpenSolaris is basically development platform and I think these two areas are of high importance for developers. Uros Nedic Belgrade, Serbia > Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:07:18 -0600 > From: james.

Re: [osol-discuss] Sharing files/directories with Windows

2009-08-14 Thread Ian Collins
Randy Wynn wrote: Background: Secure environment forces us to use out of the box features. Basic needs: Place Solaris files to be backed up on a Windows server Enable indows server to place files on a Solaris filesystem By "on a Windows server" do you mean physically on the box? If not, us

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Joanmarie Diggs
Hi Jim. I'm still very much interested in participating in this effort. Thanks and take care. --joanie On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 11:07 -0600, Jim Walker wrote: > This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test > project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread alan mcclellan
Great idea! +1 for Documentation community sponsorship. -alan Jim Walker wrote: This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it on Use Cases since that is what we really are needing. There were several peo

[osol-discuss] Sharing files/directories with Windows

2009-08-14 Thread Randy Wynn
Background: Secure environment forces us to use out of the box features. Basic needs: Place Solaris files to be backed up on a Windows server Enable indows server to place files on a Solaris filesystem I am looking for the simplest possible solution. I have been looking at LDAP authenticating to

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris 0906 on an Ultra 10

2009-08-14 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Unfortunately this isn't possible at this time. However, as a temporary measure (this won't be possible forever), you could use SXCE until a text install powered SPARC version becomes available. It's not what you want right now, but until Caiman is finished on SPARC it may work for you. And before

Re: [osol-discuss] Open Solaris 0906 on an Ultra 10

2009-08-14 Thread Glenn Lagasse
Hi Kerry, * Kerry Cox (kerryj...@gmail.com) wrote: > Just picked up an Ultra 10 Sun Workstation Elite 3D from my company. > Wanting to install Open Solaris 0906 on it. I downloaded the latest > Sparc build, but it did not seem to want to take. Not sure how to > proceed. I am not seeing Ultra 10 o

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Glenn Lagasse
* casper@sun.com (casper@sun.com) wrote: > > > >The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. > >They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, > >or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force > >them to be part of th

[osol-discuss] DRAFT: OpenSolaris Use Case Project Proposal

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Walker
This concept was discussed a few months ago on indiana-discuss as a beta test project, after looking at this more closely I refocused it on Use Cases since that is what we really are needing. There were several people interested in being part of a project like this. All input welcome. Specifical

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Shawn Walker
Shawn Walker wrote: casper@sun.com wrote: The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force them to be part of the install process

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Shawn Walker
casper@sun.com wrote: The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force them to be part of the install process. Installation shoul

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
Yup, I opened a bug on this exact issue.. 10543. It makes no sense to be unable to do that with the "create-client" subcommand to installadm. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http:

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
And who's going to go run around with this USB stick in a data center? Doesn't sound like a realistic solution. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Octave J. Orgeron Solaris Virtualization Architect and Consultant Web: http://unixconsole.blogspot.com E-M

Re: [osol-discuss] Manual upgrade process from 101b?

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Wallace
Thanks again to Evan Layton - all fixed now! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Fredrich Maney
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: >> > "Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. >> >> Just a thought, couldn't you use a USB Stick to save configuration >> files, so the next 99 installs take data from there? > > Hmmm the 100s of systems will

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Fredrich Maney
I will concur. The single most important issue to me with regards to installing a system is that I be able to do it automatically and remotely. I have quite literally installed thousands of Solaris instances on dozens of hardware platforms - less than a hundred have been interactively and probably

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 08/14/2009 11:29 AM, Ethan Erchinger wrote: I'd love to do the same for my few opensolaris systems, but we use static IPs so I can't use AI. I hope that gets fixed soon. Maybe this was mentioned already, but why can't you statically assign IPs in DHCP, then use AI? We aren't running a DH

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Ethan Erchinger
> I'd love to do the same for my few opensolaris systems, but we use > static IPs so I can't use AI. I hope that gets fixed soon. > Maybe this was mentioned already, but why can't you statically assign IPs in DHCP, then use AI? ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Tom Georgoulias
On 08/14/2009 10:47 AM, Volker A. Brandt wrote: "Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. Just a thought, couldn't you use a USB Stick to save configuration files, so the next 99 installs take data from there? Hmmm the 100s of systems will usually be installed *

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Gress
Volker A. Brandt wrote: "Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. Just a thought, couldn't you use a USB Stick to save configuration files, so the next 99 installs take data from there? Hmmm the 100s of systems will usually be installed *simultaneous

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> > "Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. > > Just a thought, couldn't you use a USB Stick to save configuration > files, so the next 99 installs take data from there? Hmmm the 100s of systems will usually be installed *simultaneously*. Also, it's no fun to craw

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Paul Gress
casper@sun.com wrote: The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force them to be part of the install process. Installation shou

Re: [osol-discuss] Link aggregation

2009-08-14 Thread Sean McGrath
rudro stated: < I am trying to do static link aggregation using a Netgear switch.Open solaris System has an aggregation that consists of two interfaces, bge0 and bge1. These interfaces are connected to the switch through aggregated ports. If both links are connected, in Netgear, traffic is on

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
Totally agree Casper! The power of Jumpstart has enabled customers to deploy servers from scratch with little to no manual configuration after doing a "boot net -install". AI has to be as flexible and hopefully easier to configure by learning from what customers do with Jumpstart (take a look at

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Octave Orgeron
This is something that should be configurable globally and when an account is created. Globally in cases where it's required for applications (think monitoring software, commercial apps, etc.). That should be done with a command like the netservices and through an AI variable for network install

Re: [osol-discuss] access cifs share on open solaris machine with authentication from windows

2009-08-14 Thread Ignacio Marambio Catán
i'm not sure how cifs deals with roles, and root is a role in opensolaris, can you try with another user? On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 8:56 AM, rudro wrote: > I am unable to share cifs share on open solaris with authentication from > windows machine. I followed the following steps > > # svcadm enable

Re: [osol-discuss] Link aggregation

2009-08-14 Thread Steffen Weiberle
On 08/14/09 07:46, rudro wrote: I am trying to do static link aggregation using a Netgear switch.Open solaris System has an aggregation that consists of two interfaces, bge0 and bge1. These interfaces are connected to the switch through aggregated ports. If both links are connected, in Netg

[osol-discuss] access cifs share on open solaris machine with authentication from windows

2009-08-14 Thread rudro
I am unable to share cifs share on open solaris with authentication from windows machine. I followed the following steps # svcadm enable -r smb/server # zfs create tank/cifs0 # zfs set sharesmb=on tank/cifs # sharemgr show -vp default nfs=() zfs zfs/tank/cifs0 smb=() tank_cifs0=/

[osol-discuss] Link aggregation

2009-08-14 Thread rudro
I am trying to do static link aggregation using a Netgear switch.Open solaris System has an aggregation that consists of two interfaces, bge0 and bge1. These interfaces are connected to the switch through aggregated ports. If both links are connected, in Netgear, traffic is only on one link &

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Che Kristo
+ 1 for the visual panel idea. I still think however that by default Solaris and OpenSolaris should present it's own "personality" rather than putting "linuxiness" before quality On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:57

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Volker A. Brandt
> Our customers want an "hands-off" install; an install which can be > customized to a point where the system reboots and nothing needs to > be done. > > "Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. > > The fact that you are required to configure a system after it is instal

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Casper . Dik
>The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer. >They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel, >or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force >them to be part of the install process. Installation should be about >installati

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread przemolicc
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 01:49:40AM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: > przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:57:07PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >>> Jan Friedel wrote: On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:04:26PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> AFAICT, Indiana by default comes with a P

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:57:07PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote: >> Configuration options like this belong in the firstboot configuration >> setup, or in visual panels where they don't add to the complexity of the >> installer. > > But one of the (hidden ?) goals of