Thanks for the reply, To clarify a few things, I'm running the Nevada (DVD iso) version of Solaris which does not include pkg. This has limited my means of installing software that I want such as NTFS-3g due to gcc-dev only being available through the pkg utility. After tinkering with things I've managed to install Sun Studio Express and some other compilers using other means (direct download and pkg-add primarily). Through a bit of luck I managed to find instructions on how to install pkg, but unfortunately the instructions that I found were incomplete, as no matter how many times I tried the steps that seemed to relate to installing pkg (it was part of a column on setting up a minimal install of solaris) the utility would not install completely. So I was hoping to get some advice on getting pkg fully installed on the system.
I think the truecrypt issue is more a problem with permissions or an incompatibility between Ubuntu and Solaris. Though I'm unsure as to at which point this problem may be occuring due to the fact that the problem only occurs when I try to access the volume through Ubuntu with sshfs. As mentioned before sshfs is currently the only way of accessing truecrypt volumes in linux over the network due to some limitations in the truecrypt software. My only lead so far is that from what I've read online, Solaris uses a varient of OpenSSH that differs from the version that Ubuntu uses on it's end. My current plans for the solaris computer is to just keep it as a file server, so I will be primarily accessing all of my files through my Ubuntu laptop. Though having the ability to open the files directly on the server in the case of troubleshooting an issue would come in handy it is not as high of a priority ensuring that the Ubuntu laptop is able to access all of the files on the server securely with no issues. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
