I've had similar noob problems like this when I first switched from using Linux to using OpenSolaris 2008.05 myself. There is a graphical interface for configuring the networking in OpenSolaris 2008.05 (kind of like system-config-network in Red Hat). The only problem was (if I remember correctly) you really should probably be super-user / root to use it to it's full capabilities, so type in su and your superuser password to get a root # prompt and then at the root prompt type in:
# network-admin and you'll get the GUI with full root user permissions. Another catch is that the network-admin GUI won't work if you hadn't already disabled nwam (i.e. type in svcadm disable nwam). Another way to maybe get the network-admin prompt with administrator permissions via RBAC might be to type in: $ pfexec network-admin at the normal user $ command prompt, but somehow I have a feeling that a mis-configured RBAC that doesn't give your normal user-account the permissions it needs to edit the network settings via the GUI is what's causing the problem in the first place. If your normal user account isn't even part of the wheel group and thus can't use the su command to become root user, then... uhhh... you're really in a pickle. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
