Re: [osol-help] install of 2009.06 desktop on VirtualBox

Not sure what happened there. Did you do the installation using a physical CD or did you boot the VM off of the .iso file? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] HP w1907 Monitor + Nvidia GeForce 6150 LE Video Card

After installing 2009.06, the highest resolution that the Nvidia config tool will let me select is 1024x768. How do I OpenSolaris to support the monitors native resolution of 1440x...@60hz? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-he

Re: [osol-help] NIS Server on OpenSolaris ? arrgh

Just out of curiosity, why are folks still using NIS? Isn't it horribly insecure? Is it still being used out of familiarity? It seems like OpenDS would be a better solution to directory services. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensola

Re: [osol-help] Help with VNC or Remoe Desktop from my Mac

All the time, it's called SSH ;-) The real question is why do you want a graphical interface to your remote OpenSolaris box? If it's to run the GUI config tools like packagemanager/etc just displaying them back to your Mac using X. For example, if I want to connect to an OpenSolaris server with

Re: [osol-help] Cannot ssh to OpenSolaris after upgrade to 2008.11 from WinXP

Have you tried SSH'ing to the OpenSolaris box using a UNIX SSH Client (OpenSolaris, Linux, Mac)? It'd be interesting to see if they fail as well. I've seen PuTTY and any of the other psuedo UNIX SSH clients on Windows behave strangely in the past. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-help] Songbird in 2008.11

Looks like someone's already posted a fix for this online... http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/playing_your_mp3s_with_songbird -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Songbird in 2008.11

Does anyone have this working? I've installed it and all of the GStreamer plugins I could find, however Songbird can't seem to find the GStreamer plugins. Any help would be appreciated. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help m

[osol-help] How to upgrade to a specific build?

I've found that upgrading my OpenSolaris installation to build 99 gives me an unbootable system. I used the instructions found at: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=66520&tstart=0 Is there a way I can specify a different build to upgrade to? Basically, I want to install OpenS

Re: [osol-help] pkg image-update from sos2008.05 b95 to b99 fails to boot

I've seen this same behavior with build 99 as well. Reproduced consistently 3 times. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] Simple LDAP Setup

Are there any guides that walk you through setting up a simple LDAP server on OpenSolaris? Basically, I just want an LDAP server to authenticate users from Solaris and Mac systems. The problem that I've run into now is that UID's don't match across systems (as would be expected). This is for a h

[osol-help] The "entire" package

After having installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 if I run a "pkg refresh" followed by "pkg image-update" it proceeds to advise me that I need to install about 2.0GB of packages. I've been told that this is due to the "entire" package being needed for installation. Is there anyway I can correct the pkg

[osol-help] Package Manager Sanity Check

Here's the steps I took... Installed OpenSolaris 2008.05 Logged into the system Ran "pkg refresh" then "pkg image-update" and the system proceeded to install ~ 500 Packages (~2.0GB) Is this expected? My assumptions are either this was an error in the pkg system and the opensolaris repository or

Re: [osol-help] HOWTO: Download an .iso File from the Command Line?

Can you post the URL that you used so I can just copy & paste it? Also, what the format is of the AuthParam so I can enter my own username & password to access the .iso? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list open

Re: [osol-help] HOWTO: Download an .iso File from the Command Line?

Here's what happens when I try to download b87 via the link on Sun's site... any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? -bash-3.2$ /usr/sfw/bin/wget http://cds.sun.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/WFS/CDS-CDS_SMI-Site/en_US/-/USD/VerifyItem-Start/sol-nv-b87-x86-dvd.iso?BundledLineItemUUID=PhdIBe.oqU0AAA

Re: [osol-help] HOWTO: Download an .iso File from the Command Line?

OK, that leads to another question. If I want to locate a binary on a Solaris box, say wget, what command is preferred to search for it's location? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolari

[osol-help] HOWTO: Download an .iso File from the Command Line?

Forigve my Solaris ignorance, but I'm not sure what the equivalent of wget is on Solaris. Could someone please post an example of how to download a file from the command-line in Solaris? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help

Re: [osol-help] How to download a network drive if no network?

How about downloading the necessary driver software to a USB thumb drive and then using that to access the files from Solaris. I believe that most USB drives are formatted using the FAT filesystem, which I believe Solaris should be able to mount. This message posted from opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Solaris Authentication Server

Yes, I want the Solaris box to be the authentication point. It appears that setting up a LDAP server is the way do go. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] DISPLAY Environment Variable

Yes - that's pretty much the way X has worked on all Linux & Unix'es for the past 20 years. You need to set the DISPLAY environment variable to :0, using either: DISPLAY=:0 ; export DISPLAY setenv DISPLAY :0 depending on what shell you use (bourne style or csh style). You'll also

Re: [osol-help] new user SolarisTM Express Developer Edition

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-2379/smcover-1?a=view This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] OpenSolaris Administration Guide

Excellent, thanks for the info. Hopefully other folks that are eager to digg into OpenSolaris, but don't know where to start will find this useful as well. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@op

[osol-help] DISPLAY Environment Variable

After a clean install of Nevada b86, I setup a user account, logged in, opened a terminal, ran "su -" to change to root and then ran the following command... # /usr/sadm/bin/smc & The application failed to start, complaining about the DISPLAY environment variable. Anyone seen something like thi

Re: [osol-help] IDE Drive Momentarily Loses Power on Boot

OK, so I guess I just need to hold tight until this is fixed in a future release... and try not to reboot the system ;-) This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

[osol-help] X11 Solaris+Mac Setup

I was wondering if anyone could help me with setting up my MacBook Pro (MBP) to be able to display X applications from my Solaris box? If there are any good posts/howto's/etc out there could you please let me know? Here's what I've done so far... Installed X11 on MBP Run "ssh -X hostname" to co

[osol-help] IDE Drive Momentarily Loses Power on Boot

This issue is consistent and reproducible. I have 4 SATA drives (ZFS Pool) and 1 IDE Drive (Solaris) on my system, and I've noticed that every time the system boots (That is, once I've selected Solaris from the GRUB menu and pressed enter and the kernel starts to load) I can actually hear the ID

[osol-help] Solaris Authentication Server

I'm interested in setting up my OpenSolaris box to serve authentication credentials for clients on my home network (Primarily to keep UID/GID's straight across numerous machines). I know NIS used to be the way to do this, and suspect that perhaps OpenLDAP is the way to go. My question in, for a

[osol-help] OpenSolaris Administration Guide

For all the seasoned Solaris Admins out there... What book would you recommend as a good resource for a Linux SysAdmin that wants to learn about Solaris? This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@open