Hi, I have used Solaris in the office for many years but I now have an old Ultra 5 which I am running Solaris 10 on. I got the install from a Sun stand at a company internal event back in July. I installed it on the Ultra 5 a couple of weeks ago and managed to get everything seemingly working, I did a basic install with dhcp working directly on the machine. Yesterday I managed to correctly configure the dhcp client to have the correct host information and update the DNS server for the network (DHCP and DNS server are running on Linux). I also managed to correctly configure the DNS server to allow nslookups from anywhere on the local network so reverse DNS is now working correctly.
My problem is that the network connections to the Ultra 5 are very slow. A telnet session (using Putty on Windows) works fine for a few minutes and then pauses for several seconds and then works fine again. I have tried using Cygwin/X to start a Gnome session and that partially starts but I never get a login prompt, just an hour glass (sun variety) and a black screen. I also switched the X session to try and start an X application with the display set to the Window machine running Cygwin/X and it just seems to hang with nothing appearing on the windows machine. I am looking for pointers to documentation that will help me diagnose any issues and also any tools that can give me an idea of what is going on. I have limited Linux admin knowledge, I tend to fumble my way through HOWTOs and FAQs to get things working. Thanks Simon This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
