Hi all,Due to corporate direction we have to move all Windows installations toWindows 2000 or XP. For our 400Mhz SUN PCi cards this meant moving fromWindows NT 4.0 to Windows2000. We installed a new Windows2000 image withService Pack2 (after installing SUN patch 110762-03). Everything ...

I have two I believe identical e4500 systems that I want to configure toshare two D1000 arrays in a failover kind of configuration - where they'reboth connected at either end of the SCSI bus, but only one system mounts thedisks at any one time. I'm wanting to use DiskSuite's disksets ...

Greeting,Try to compile dhcp-2.0b1pl6 on solaris9/sunblade100. but got error:make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../common/libdhcp.a', needed by`dhcpd'. Stop.make[1]: *** No rule to make target `../common/libdhcp.a', needed by`dhclient'. Stop.make[1]: *** No rule to make target ...

>A hotfix for a purchse order application (ariba) managed to do _something_>to Iplanet ... and no one is around who knows (or admits to knowing) how>iplanet is configurd.Replying to my own post, how gauche. But we've isolated the problem down -the connector software that Ariba runs ...

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Hi SunManagers,We have UPS hooked up with this Sun Fire V880, itkeeps it up for another 5 minutes after power is out.Now we add more battery on the UPS, we want to extendthis time to 20 minutes on this Sun Fire V880. I know V880 RSC battery will keep server up for awhile so that you can shut ...

Pretty short one...T3 - Two LUN's; Partner Pair - Four LUN'sT3+ - At least one per disk, possibly 16Thanks to all who wroteDavid=====Checkout the McWilliams family website @ http://davidmcw.tripod.com/Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up ...

So the boss bought 2 second hand T3's, fully populated with 9Gb drives.Configured both /etc/ethers (mac & hostname) and /etc/hosts (ip &hostname), started in.rarpd -a, booted them up and I can never telnetto them (the machine used is a functional jumpstart server). Evensnooped and used ...

Sun Gurus, I am stuck with a problem on the root disk. After rebootingthe system complains wrong label. I tried booting from cdrom andrecovering the label. i mounted the slice on /a. I could not see anyfilesystems. The system displays file not found. fsck tries to clear allthe inode which i am ...

Thanks to all who helped: (apologies if any names are inadvertentlymissing)Lee Trujillo [lee.trujillo at navidec.com]Andrew J Caines [A.J.Caines at halplant.com]Josh N/A [endlessvortex at hotmail.com]Kai-Thorsten Hambrecht [kai at hambrecht.org]manjeet. singh [manjeet.singh at eds.com]Andrew ...

I've checked this like crazy on sun sites, codeprof, and even eBay, butcan't find this answer yet.Does anyone know of an Sbus Ethernet interface that is supported underSolaris 8? The 'be' interfaces, such as the 501-2942, are not supported inSolaris 7 or 8. Heck, they won't even work, much ...

Here's a strange question one of our customers has asked us.If a server is configured as UK English ie en_GB.ISO8859-15 is it possibleto change the language to be say French or German ?I'm assuming this is a set once option when building the o/s and to changelanguage would require a fresh ...

Hi,Platform is V880 8x900MHz, Solaris 8 (108528-13), Clariion FC4700 using ATF 3.4.0.7 drivers, VxVM 3.2 pk3, VxFS 3.4 pk2 and recently VCS2. Since the installation of VCS2.0 plus associated patches we haven't been able to import any of the disk groups on the Clariion.The error we get is ...

Hi,I've just installed GCC onto an ultra 5 running Solaris 7.When I try to run ./configure on a set of source files I get an errormessage:The relevant line in the configure is : checking whether the C compiler (gcc-g ) works ... noconfigure: error: installation or configuration problem: C ...

There was only one response and it provided the solution. Thanks to Russ atrpoffenberger at nptest.com:www.blackbox.com P/N ACS236A for Sun.Please note that above P/N uses one Sun 8pin minidin connection forkeyboard+mouse.Bottom line:Search on web for "Fiber KVM ...

What limitations does the user nobody have in x86 Solaris 8? Why does it havea user id in the 60000 range?I'm setting up an intranet site. The user nobody (because that's the user whenthey login in to the Intranet via their browser) needs to execute commands onanother unix system with rsh. ...

Hello codeprof I have just installed this card and connected it to those drives . And i cant seem to see the drives i have installed the SUNWqusx andSUNWqusux packages and applied the latest patch on that and still i cant seethem .But when i go in the bootprom and do a probescsi all i can see ...

A great big THANK YOU to all how replied: Here is a synopsis of thesuggestions. Original post follows as well as some additional questions.1. Everyone suggested that I use UFS logging built into the Solaris 7 OSrather than creating the TRANS-Meta device. Suggestions taken and I will dothat. ...

I've been trying all sorts of things, and am out of ideas - has anyonesuccessfully used an HP SureStore E SCSI Bridge FC 4/2 Fiber-Channel tocommunicate with a SCSI drive over fiber-channel? The bridge is an HPA3308. I can get it to correctly probe both a SCSI disk, and a tape unit.I can ...

Is there any way to install a fresh new version of Solaris on the blank diskof a running System, without downtime (except rebooting on the new installeddisk).For instance, Solaris 2.6 is running on boot disk c0t0d0 and I would like toinstall and configure a new boot disk under Solaris 8 on ...

Hi,I'm trying to upgrade IMAP server from V1.x to V2.0.17 on Solaris 2.6.One of the prereqs for this version of IMAP is the installation of BerkeleyDB V3.x (which I installed and compiled OK).However, the IMAP installation fails, because it tries to find a librarycalled "db_create" ...

Currently SParc classic and sparcstation LX have onboard 10MB and is running in half duplex.I want to make it run in full duplex. Is it possible with 10MB?Can a Sparcclassic and sparcstation LX run 100MB? Can I install sunfast ethernet x1059A OR sunswift SBUS adapter x1018A in it to make it ...

dear Gurus...I have a Solaris box SunFire V480 (Solaris 5.8) , in there I activate the SMTPprotocol in order to able to forward all messages from SendMail a cross over toWindows Server (installed as Lotus Notes Server). How do I could make ithappens ?!Your reply is highly appreciated.Regards, ...

Have not found this yet... does anyone have anything written up or knowwhere I can get something to explain how to setup a Sun workstation as aldap client to an OpenLdap server? Thanks in advance...See-yaMitch-- /####################################################################//# Mitchell ...

Picked up a nice E250 inexpensively to experiment with at home, however it hasjust metal sides (must have been rack mounted) Looking for the plastic sidesand top and maybe the wheels to convert back to deskside tower.Anybody convert the other way such that you have these parts available ?Thanks ...

Summary Part II>A hotfix for a purchse order application (ariba) managed to do _something_>to Iplanet ... and no one is around who knows (or admits to knowing) how>iplanet is configurd.Replying to my own post, how gauche. But we've isolated the problem down -the connector software ...

I had many responses to the last round and 90% of them suggested setting theport speed by hand to static values. Some asked what I was using for nddcommands (listed below) and others sent over /etc/system mods (also listedbelow). All with no change in the way it worked.I've rebooted the ...

Got at least 15 responses, many thanks to all. The best answer was from Mark McManus: http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/U2/components.htmlNothing like going back to the source. The list is:X1049A [S]501-5443 [F] Sun Quad FastEthernet 2.0 (SQFE/S)X1058A [S]501-2062 [F] Quad Ethernet ...

Server is running Solaris 8 MU7 with the Nov 15 2002 recommended +security patches.We have been running Solaris for 2 years now. We used to be a VMS shop.We managed to port our inhouse app from VMS to Solaris.We have recently needed job queuing on our Solaris Box. So we are using AT/CRON.We ...

Thanks to Darren Dunham, Ryan Bishop, Scott Mickey and Paul Richards forassistance with this problem.Paul Richards in particular in one terse message provided the explanationfor where Solaris keeps its cN -> device mappings -- in /dev/cfg.So the answers I have determined to my questions ...

Sun Gods, message may be a tad off topic - we have a terminal server & so you can access the console of sun boxen via something like "telnet box1 2014" Where of course 2014 = port 14 of the Cisco terminal server. I recall there being a way whereby you can map an IP address/name to ...

Working with a recently purchased, used E250, and I only have a solaris 8media kit.The unit boots up with existing software however I have no passwords, root oruser.I just wanted to do a stop A then boot -cdrom and reinstall solaris 8 howeverits not responding just comes upwith the existing ...

how to upgrade to new version of Openboot?<p>thanks<p>Rick<br>

Thank you to everyone who replied to my first request for help. Indeed syntaxwas incorrect not: boot -cdrom only boot cdrom.Now the system is trying to use swap for the mini root and its on slice 1. Sono auto-partition when swap isn't slice 0.formatted c0t0d0 but its taken a couple hours -- I ...

Howdy,I've inherited several sparc 20's and have some rosscpus to go with them but apparently, the OBP needs tobe upgraded to support the cpus. My questions are 1)Is that true? 2) how/where can I find the upgrade forthe OBP?Regards and thanks for your help,George...========== _/_/_/_/ ...

hello all,i configure two raid and two lun ( lun 0 set raid 0+1 & lun 1 set raid 5 ) in external disk array storage contain 8 scsi hard disk.Now , i use command probe-scsi-all in ok mode and system detected this disk array in Target 2.But when boot solaris 8 sparc with command boot -r ...

Hi Managers,Please excuse me for this basic question. How can I quickly setup my SUN box only to send mails (output of cron jobs) via our DNS box (another SUN box not in my control).ThanksSanth_________________________________________________________________The new MSN 8: smart spam protection ...

Dear Managers,Greetings , I have one V480 server with Solaris 8 which has been configured as NIS client .It has got a filesytem /server1 other than "/" & swap .When a user goes to /server1 filesystem and run a command "ls -al " , user will get the permission ...

HelloHere comes the summary.Well I tried everything I thought with boot -r /reconfigure and devfsadm andnone of it worked so I thought of downloading the the other parts of thedriver.The packages which was called SUNWqus SUNWqusu I did not think I would needthese because it said they were 32 ...

Dear all,<p>Does anyone have the docs about why we chose Sun for web, email server ? Any<br>document that compare Sun with others ?<p>Thanks in advance,<p>Best regards,<br>Aiggno<br>

folks,many thanks to all who responded.The problem turned out to be a file in /usr/ccs/lib - values-Xa.o - which -for some reason - related to the wrong machine class. Possibly cauesd by afaulty patch.I ftpd the file from another box with the same OS and all is now fine.Thanks againSimon ...

Hi Guys,I have a sun box and one of my 20GB hard disks just seems to have beendissapeared. I am unable to mount this disk anymore and I checked to seeif my partition was still there since it keeps giving me an error sayingthat partition does not exist basically. When I checked the ...

Thanks to everyone who answered.It seems Live Upgrade can do upgrade & fresh install, so this is thesolution.---Sebastien DAUBIGNE sdaubigne at bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com<mailto:sdaubigne at bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com> - (+33)5.57.26.56.36SchlumbergerSema - ...

Yes, I've read through the archives, and I know how to configure theeri device for 100Mb Full-Duplex in /etc/system --HOWEVER -- I can't seem to find a way to configure the eri device torun at full duplex for a jumpstart installation...any thoughts are MUCH appreciatedtoph-- ERROR: Keyboard ...

I have a problem with a Netra that will not see the CDROM device at the O/S level. I think the problem might be with the fact that there are multiple entries in OpenBoot for the cdrom device. I know how to add a device alias to OpenBoot but unsure how to delete.Should I use nvedit? Can I ...

I have a somewhat isolated v880 that cannot be monitored by our usualmonitoring software. But it can send email. So what I have been doingis to have lots of little shell and perl scripts run as root from cronto check individual items and send email if there is a problem. One isa temperature ...

Hi All...<p>Mostly out of interest, I'm doing research onto what the most models of Sun <br>hardware for various environments are...<p>What sun hardware is most popular in your shop for workstations, <br>co-location/data centers, etc....<p>Thanks in advance for any responses!<p>-Adam<br>

Hi,I would like to order more disk drive on my E450.I know 36GB 10K rpm seagate works,How about 72GB or 100+ drives?Can it take drive that's 15K RPM drive?I would like to the E450 for storage Raid.ThanksYahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up ...

Hi Managers,I had a boot drive failure on a SparcStation 10 running Solaris 8 (OK, youcan stop laughing now). I'm trying to boot Solaris 8 from CD (6/00 media)but the boot keeps crashing.I'm using a Sun external CDROM drive, so that shouldn't be an issue.However, the amber led on the front ...

I asked:> I have a somewhat isolated v880 that cannot be monitored by our usual> monitoring software. But it can send email. So what I have been doing> is to have lots of little shell and perl scripts run as root from cron> to check individual items and send email if there is a ...