[osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Well, recently in a meeting i suggested my organization of creating a centralized storage server, as in present scenario, all the users are having their data on the machines on which they're working, and taking backup from them is nothing less than a pain. Well i was asked to work on this, n

[osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Well, since i'm new to opensolaris so facing some prbs, pardon me for that :) well i was working on cifs thing, for that i had to reset my passwords, since it was on a configuring mode, so i set the password several time, now i've forgot the password. is there any way to save my files as i

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread john kroll
Where does the original Sun account and passwords authorizing general public downloads now reside ?? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Where does the original Sun account and passwords authorizing general public downloads now reside ?? hi jet... well to be frank i didn't exactly understand what you meant by that, as i'm not very much familiar with opensolaris... well but as far as i can interpret your question, i guess that

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread john kroll
Where ??? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Dunc
Gurpreet wrote: Well, since i'm new to opensolaris so facing some prbs, pardon me for that :) well i was working on cifs thing, for that i had to reset my passwords, since it was on a configuring mode, so i set the password several time, now i've forgot the password. is there any way to

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
Well, since i'm new to opensolaris so facing some prbs, pardon me for that :) As I understood you need to change root pass? You can boot from install CD, mount your boot environment(BE) ( beadm list show you list of BEs), mount your one: pfexec beadm mount BEname /mnt/ chmod u+w /etc/shadow

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
As I understood you need to change root pass? You can boot from install CD, mount your boot environment(BE) ( beadm list show you list of BEs), mount your one: pfexec beadm mount BEname /mnt/ forgot: chroot /mnt ... chmod u+w /etc/shadow vi /etc/shadow // Edit shadow and remove root

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Well, since i'm new to opensolaris so facing some prbs, pardon me for that :) As I understood you need to change root pass? You can boot from install CD, mount your boot environment(BE) ( beadm list show you list of BEs), mount your one: pfexec beadm mount BEname /mnt/ chmod u+w

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Gurpreet wrote: Well, since i'm new to opensolaris so facing some prbs, pardon me for that :) well i was working on cifs thing, for that i had to reset my passwords, since it was on a configuring mode, so i set the password several time, now i've forgot the password. is there any way

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
Hello Leoric, i have the root password, but when i tried to login using root, i was not able to, so i think you can only login with the normal user account, and i've forgotten the password of that user account. Thanx Some ways to repair your system are to boot from CD, mount your last boot

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Hello Leoric, i have the root password, but when i tried to login using root, i was not able to, so i think you can only login with the normal user account, and i've forgotten the password of that user account. Thanx Some ways to repair your system are to boot from CD, mount your last

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
Hi Dunc, but the thing is like i'm able to login to the old boot environment with the old password, but that password is not working with the new boot environment... so with the change in the boot environment, user information changes too? i mean so now there are actually two separate users?

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Hi Dunc, but the thing is like i'm able to login to the old boot environment with the old password, but that password is not working with the new boot environment... so with the change in the boot environment, user information changes too? i mean so now there are actually two

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
leoric, i've got one more query, well is it possible that i login through the old boot environment and then make changes to this file /etc/passwd,shadows? will that work? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
Are you running Microsoft Active Directory with domain controllers on your local area network? The newer builds of OpenSolaris have a native CIFS implementation which is IMO much more advanced (and much more performant) than SAMBA / SMB is on Linux and older Solaris. I don't know how

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Well, since i'm new to opensolaris so facing some prbs, pardon me for that :) As I understood you need to change root pass? You can boot from install CD, mount your boot environment(BE) ( beadm list show you list of BEs), mount your one: pfexec beadm mount BEname /mnt/ chmod u+w

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
The easiest way might be to just to install this program called WinSCP (see link below): http://winscp.net/eng/index.php on the Windows XP machines. This program allows the Windows machines to upload and download files through the SSH port on the Solaris server using either SFTP (my

Re: [osol-help] crash after ndis, how to restore it?

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
I tried installing ndis wrapper for my broadcom4311 driver. It said somethinglike 'installed but failed to attatch' and rebooted into maintainance mode.I didnknowwhat to do. There are two commands that I think would be helpful that I think you could run in maintenance mode. There's a

Re: [osol-help] crash after ndis, how to restore it?

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
You'll also need to include the output of this command: pfexec scanpci -v or at least the part where it shows the part of the hardware on the PCI bus that the driver that you did an NDIS wrapper for was trying to attach to. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Well... i've used winscp, hmm, the users are totally naive to the linux thing.. well i think it can be done this way, well, just want to ask, using winscp the user would be able to see/access only his folder i.e., /etc/home/username. Is there any alternative to this? well thanks a lot :) --

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
Check out OpenSolaris CIFS in Workgroup Mode at the following links: http://wiki.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Getting_Started_With_the_Solaris_CIFS_Service http://blogs.sun.com/timthomas/entry/solaris_cifs_in_workgroup_mode Read the section on wiki.genunix.org that starts with this part: How to

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
for root type=role to type=normal After unomunt BE and reboot you'll get root access to repair your system. I tried this as u said change root type=role to type=normal, well the change is happening in the old BE but the new BE is not accepting any, its neither allowing the

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
I'm not an expert, but I think the default workgroup when you have a bunch of random WIndows XP computers connected on a LAN is called workgroup or mshome or something like that. When you are in the GNOME desktop for OpenSolaris, there is a silver sphere icon for Network or Network Places and

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Anon Y Mous
I suspect that the command to join the workgroup in your case would be: smbadm join -w workgroup unless the workgroup is named something else besides workgroup. If it was named mshome it would be: smbadm join -w mshome -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
Hi system5, thanx 4 ur efforts... well i 've been through that i've configured cifs, and it is working too. But the thing is, like when i access the opensolaris \\opensolaris, it prompts me to enter the username and password, i provide that, now the thing is, 1. the username it asks is the one

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
in /etc/shadow i can see is list of users and the password is encrypted. what should i modify in it? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
Have you solved your problem? If not, what is going wrong? If you can mount your last be and change /etc/shadow and I tried this as u said change root type=role to type=normal, well the change is happening in the old BE but the new BE is not accepting any, its neither allowing the

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
in /etc/shadow i can see is list of users and the password is encrypted. what should i modify in it? You should empty root password (clear out password cache from shadow, its second field of record, between : signs ) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Gurpreet
in /etc/shadow i can see is list of users and the password is encrypted. what should i modify in it? You should empty root password (clear out password cache from shadow, its second field of record, between : signs ) leoric this is what i did. 1. logged in the old BE (that i'm able to

Re: [osol-help] Forgot password

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
in /etc/shadow i can see is list of users and the password is encrypted. what should i modify in it? You should empty root password (clear out password cache from shadow, its second field of record, between : signs ) leoric this is what i did. 1. logged in the old BE (that i'm

Re: [osol-help] [xwin-discuss] ATI Radeon 4670 DRI does not work on SNV 119

2009-08-12 Thread Keith Kee
Thank you. I decided to replace it with a new 9600GT card, and I'm happy. Now, I could only get the desktop to poweroff when I shutdown... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

[osol-help] Shutdown/Poweroff will not turn off computer

2009-08-12 Thread Keith Kee
Hi: I have just installed SXCE snv_117 and snv_119 on my new dell computer with intel i7 core. When I do a shutdown command or a poweroff on the command prompt, the computer will hang after the file system sync is completed. The power button on the computer will turn yellow (normally blue when

Re: [osol-help] Urgent: OpenSolaris as a file server

2009-08-12 Thread Scott Meilicke
It sounds like you want one person to access different shares on the server? Like their home directory, but also another share that contains project data (as an example)? This is certainly possible, usually by creating a group, and adding people to that group. Then make the group the owner of

Re: [osol-help] Shutdown/Poweroff will not turn off computer

2009-08-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
When I do a shutdown command or a poweroff on the command prompt, the computer will hang after the file system sync is completed. The power button on the computer will turn yellow (normally blue when powered up). I would have to hold the power button to power the computer off. Could be

Re: [osol-help] pidgin cant connect to yahoo

2009-08-12 Thread Alan Steinberg
See: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9652 -- Alan edgar trania wrote: a fresh installed opensolaris 2009 06 pidgin cant connect to yahoo i also installed pidgin from blastwave repository still cant connect help me how to fix this

Re: [osol-help] Sound is off

2009-08-12 Thread Igor Korot
spicey, How do I install this packet? Just click on the link or there is a package in the repository? Thank you. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Sound is off

2009-08-12 Thread Jürgen Keil
However, running Device Driver Utility, I found that the driver for the sound card [b]is[/b] missing. I have a Intel Corporation 82801AA AC´97 Audio Controller. Is this an opensolaris virtualbox guest? Is this similar to bug 5491? http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=5491 --

Re: [osol-help] Sound is off

2009-08-12 Thread Einar Lielmanis
How do I install this packet? Just click on the link or there is a package in the repository? In your case it would be much better just to do a full system update, as then your sound card should start working automagically, and you'll get most recent firefox, among all the other goodies. If you

[osol-help] how to list users or role with specific privilege?

2009-08-12 Thread nono
The permissions on special file /dev/ip are 666 root sys. I tried to modify this permission with the following command line without effect : update_drv -m 'ip 0660 root sys' ip The modification appear in minor_perm file but not on filesystem. So, I open the documentation and can read than

[osol-help] How to install OpenSolaris on SPARC machine.

2009-08-12 Thread Hillel Lubman
I have two computers - one with installed OpenSolaris (x86) and another blank Sun Blade 2500. What's the easiest way to install OpenSolaris to Sun Blade? Thanks. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

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

2009-08-12 Thread Alexander
Are there any thoughts related to the following Oracle error? I tried to install Oracle 10g (x64) on OpenSolaris 09.06 and got error Error in creating link from ../libjsig.so to /export/home/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/jdk/jre/lib/i386/server/libjsig.so installActions.log contains: INFO:

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

2009-08-12 Thread Paul Wallace
Reply to Evan Layton: Evan Layton wrote: Can you provide the output from zfs list zfs list -o name,mountpoint,mounted I also include 'beadm list' which shows that opensolaris-2 is the active BE. opensolaris-3 was the new one created during image-update but it was destroyed following failed

[osol-help] Problems with using Wine from contrib repo

2009-08-12 Thread Hillel Lubman
I installed Wine from http://pkg.opensolaris.org/contrib/ However when used, it produces a following message: err:iphlpapi:getNumWithOneHeader Unable to open '/proc/net/route' to count entries! err:iphlpapi:getRouteTable unimplemented! I think it might cause problems when I run several

Re: [osol-help] Problems with using Wine from contrib repo

2009-08-12 Thread Hillel Lubman
Did anyone manage to run Outlook 2003 under OpenSolaris using Wine? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Help troubleshooting a opensolaris snv_118 system lockup

2009-08-12 Thread Ben Cottle
Hi, I'm after some help to troubleshoot a system lockup .. I'm not sure what is causing the issue, there is nothing unusual appearing in the logs (messages/syslog etc) and I've enabled coredumps, nothing there either. The lockups are occurring a few times a day. I haven't been able to

Re: [osol-help] Problems with using Wine from contrib repo

2009-08-12 Thread Einar Lielmanis
Did anyone manage to run Outlook 2003 under OpenSolaris using Wine? I guess you're out of luck. Wine AppDB currently says that even for the recent versions of wine, Outlook 2003 won't run correctly: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=2526 and, for the prehistoric 1.0.1

[osol-help] Firefox 3.5.2 - How To Install

2009-08-12 Thread Terry Schima
I downloaded unzipped/tarred ver. 3.5.2 for OpenSolaris. Then I moved it to the /usr/lib/firefox directory. But it will not allow using the back button. Also, it gives that error about no bookmarks, which I looked up, but nothing there seems to fix the problem. I deleted the firefox symbolic

Re: [osol-help] Help troubleshooting a opensolaris snv_118 system lockup

2009-08-12 Thread lance wilson
The 3.0.x versions of VirtualBox are responsible for the hard locks. There is a bug which they are working on but the 3 series are unusable at moment. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

[osol-help] Weird Grub Behaviour

2009-08-12 Thread Terry Schima
I'm using OpenSolaris 2009.06 -111. I've got 2 HDDs and they are partitioned/sliced as follows. hdd0 120GB OpenSolaris - entire disk default install partitioning hdd1 500GB Windows XP/Windows 7/LinuxMint 6 /sda1 30GB WinXP /sda5 7GB NTFS /sda6 200GB NTFS /sda7

[osol-help] Mounting Extended partitions logical drives.

2009-08-12 Thread srikalyan
Hi Everyone. I am quite new to opensolaris and very much liking it. I would like to know how to mount extended partition on opensolaris (ext lba). I was using ubuntu before opensolaris and ubuntu use to do it automatically (all you need to do is click the drive). I did

Re: [osol-help] Weird Grub Behaviour

2009-08-12 Thread Ronald
maybe this could help http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/map.html -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Problems with using Wine from contrib repo

2009-08-12 Thread Hillel Lubman
Thanks, I guess I'll have to find some other solution. 1.0.1 is a stable version isn't it? So contrib is in sync with the release vesion of Wine. Is development version usable? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing

Re: [osol-help] Problems with using Wine from contrib repo

2009-08-12 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
If it's a must-have application, then I believe Bordeaux Group offer paid support for running Office 2K3 apps on Wine. http://bordeauxgroup.com/press-release/bordeaux-opensolaris-1.8.2-review The development releases of Wine are very easy (and quick) to build: