Re: [osol-discuss] Single sign on equivelent for OpenSolaris

2007-08-24 Thread UNIX admin
I am wondering whether anyone has thought about the possibility of OpenSolaris acting as a replacement for a Windows domain controller. Typically the response to this would be to use Samba but as we all know configuring samba as a PDC or BDC is an overly convoluted process well beyond the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
It was a very much NASTY SURPRISE to find out that HAL DOES NOT mount multiple filesystems on removeable media. Is fstyp able to correctly detect a CD+ (1. Session Audio, 2. session data)? Will HAL mount the data part _and_ play the music at the same time? This would be the expected

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-24 Thread Richard L. Hamilton
It would at least be nice if Linux and Solaris (and maybe some of the *BSDs) agreed on how to handle such situations more or less consistently. The simplest method to achive this is to deliver code. Otherwise, you are just a follower of the Linux community. I'm not talking about

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-24 Thread Artem Kachitchkine
A smarter player would offer the option of analog, digital+analog, or digital only playback; in the latter case, it could read in a manner that allowed 1x, so on a faster than 1x drive, it should be possible to have concurrent audio/data access that way. Better if the player buffered a

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Brian Cameron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once star is in, it would be a task of minutes to integrate more from the schily enviroment. Any information about when star will go in? It should have been in Solaris 10 GA, it looks like a never ending story The include files have been

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Server on nv_69

2007-08-24 Thread Calum Benson
On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:11 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: BTW I installed nv_70 last night. It did have a major problem--I was not able to preserve the installed slices. Perhaps someone can tell me what I did wrong. I guess you used the new installer :) It doesn't preserve slices and never

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Joerg Schilling wrote: The goal for this project is to create a wrapper to create a static speudo environment for the ON compilation. Note that the ON makefile system is static and single platform while the Schily makefilesystem is dynamic ant platform independent. As ON makefiles allow to

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Darren J Moffat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once star is in, it would be a task of minutes to integrate more from the schily enviroment. I think you are making it harder for yourself by targeting ON. Given that you have a known working stable build environment SFW is probably a better

[osol-discuss] Transfer of Large amount of Data

2007-08-24 Thread Chris Reddy
OK - here is the dilemma - I have 70 Gb of data that I need to move from an External NTFS formatted USB Drive to a SUNOS Server. Is there no reliable way to mount the drive locally so it can be read from the server? I am willing to format the drive with UFS, but then I can't see it from the

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not talking about who leads and who follows, nor even about code; implementation isn't the point (although not doing something twice without a good reason is always nice), but consistent behavior, unless there's a _very_ good reason to behave

Re: [osol-discuss] snv_70 odd behavior

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Richard L. Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It was a very much NASTY SURPRISE to find out that HAL DOES NOT mount multiple filesystems on removeable media. Is fstyp able to correctly detect a CD+ (1. Session Audio, 2. session data)? Will HAL mount the data part _and_ play the

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfer of Large amount of Data

2007-08-24 Thread Dennis Wecker
On 24/08/07, Chris Reddy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK - here is the dilemma - I have 70 Gb of data that I need to move from an External NTFS formatted USB Drive to a SUNOS Server. Is there no reliable way to mount the drive locally so it can be read from the server? I am willing to format

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Server on nv_69

2007-08-24 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
I guess you used the new installer :) It doesn't preserve slices and never will IIRC, see recent thread on caiman-discuss et al. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]GNOME Desktop Group

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Sean Sprague
Shawn, On 23/08/07, Sean Sprague [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn, I would like to hope someday that Sun might consider having one that wasn't conveniently located near their offices, such as, I don't know, the midwest :) London would suit me fine ;-) Hey, at least it'd be somewhere with

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-24 Thread James Carlson
Joerg Schilling writes: Replacement of something currently in ON isn't necessarily a reason. For example replacement of tar by star doesn't imply that start needs to be in ON just because tar was (unless one or more of the above also apply). With this description, several files would

Re: [osol-discuss] [Fwd: Re: snv_70 odd behavior]

2007-08-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: If you believe that star should go elsewhere, then somebody from Sun would just need to create a wrapper makefile. SFW is open - anyone can create a wrapper makefile - it doesn't have to be somebody from Sun.If you wait for someone at Sun to do everything you just

Re: [osol-discuss] Java Server on nv_69

2007-08-24 Thread Dave Miner
Calum Benson wrote: On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 10:11 -0700, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: BTW I installed nv_70 last night. It did have a major problem--I was not able to preserve the installed slices. Perhaps someone can tell me what I did wrong. I guess you used the new installer :) It doesn't

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfer of Large amount of Data

2007-08-24 Thread Robert Thurlow
Chris Reddy wrote: OK - here is the dilemma - I have 70 Gb of data that I need to move from an External NTFS formatted USB Drive to a SUNOS Server. Is there no reliable way to mount the drive locally so it can be read from the server? I am willing to format the drive with UFS, but then

Re: [osol-discuss] Star Office/Open Office locks up during a Save As on a smb mount

2007-08-24 Thread Darren J Moffat
Mike Lehman wrote: I am running Nevada build 64 and every time I open a document from a samba mount with either Star Office 8 or Open Office 2.2 and perform a Save As it becomes unresponsive and I have to force quit the application. I can click on the save button and it works just fine. I

Re: [osol-discuss] Transfer of Large amount of Data

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Chris Reddy wrote: OK - here is the dilemma - I have 70 Gb of data that I need to move from an External NTFS formatted USB Drive to a SUNOS Server. Is there no reliable way to mount the drive locally so it can be read from the server? I am willing to format the drive with UFS, but then I

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Keith Bierman
On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Not to sound too stupid, but what is the purpose for the phone line in relation to the conference? Assuming that there is something other than a free for all in the meeting room(s), people who can't make the conference in person may be

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit

2007-08-24 Thread Ron Halstead
I like the Las Vegas idea ; -) ron This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Peter Tribble
On 8/23/07, Sara Dornsife [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very pleased to announce the first OpenSolaris Developer Summit to be held in the Bay Area on October 13 and 14th, 2007, sponsored by Sun Microsystems. This Summit, held at University of California, Santa Cruz, is not a conference with

Re: [osol-discuss] Portable UPnP SDK : build success

2007-08-24 Thread homerun
Hi Just managed to build mediatomb and currently testing it. i planned to make full independ installation package , one pkg. But currently been too busy and lack of time. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

[osol-discuss] DVB support

2007-08-24 Thread homerun
Hi Just like to start discussion is there others than me like to get DVB support to solaris. i mean similar like http://linuxtv.org/; So support and api's for DVB broadcasts and hardware Thanks This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Al Hopper
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Keith Bierman wrote: On Aug 23, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: Not to sound too stupid, but what is the purpose for the phone line in relation to the conference? Assuming that there is something other than a free for all in the meeting room(s), people who

Re: [osol-discuss] DVB support

2007-08-24 Thread Nico Sabbi
homerun wrote: Hi Just like to start discussion is there others than me like to get DVB support to solaris. i mean similar like http://linuxtv.org/; So support and api's for DVB broadcasts and hardware Thanks I'd love to see support for DVB hardware in solaris, whether with linuxtv's API

Re: [osol-discuss] DVB support

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
homerun wrote: Hi Just like to start discussion is there others than me like to get DVB support to solaris. i mean similar like http://linuxtv.org/; So support and api's for DVB broadcasts and hardware Thanks Not sure about DVB, but did you already see

Re: [osol-discuss] DVB support

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: homerun wrote: Hi Just like to start discussion is there others than me like to get DVB support to solaris. i mean similar like http://linuxtv.org/; So support and api's for DVB broadcasts and hardware Thanks Not sure about DVB,

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. But if its a real hi-tech conference, then the organizers should drag in a temporary T3 (yes 45mBits) or, at a minimum, a dedicated 10Mb wireless link from a local WISP for the conf and setup Asterisk for VOIP and a couple of dedicated wireless

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Joerg Schilling wrote: Al Hopper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed. But if its a real hi-tech conference, then the organizers should drag in a temporary T3 (yes 45mBits) or, at a minimum, a dedicated 10Mb wireless link from a local WISP for the conf and setup Asterisk for VOIP and a

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Sara Dornsife
Phones aren't the issue, nor is VoIP availability. I work remotely, listening in on a meeting over the phone without proper mics and speakers, is useless. Worse, frustrating. The university doesn't have the kind of phone system that would make it possible to listen to everyone talk regardless

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Summit Oct 13 - 14

2007-08-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Martin Bochnig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, the CCC conference 80 km from Berlin on an old russion military airport had ARAIK 1 Gb/s via a dedicated fibre that was thrown on the meadow ... 50 Mbit/s is VDSL home connectivity ;-) I have 16MBits/sec downstream at home, for 14

[osol-discuss] back to windows share -possible automated?

2007-08-24 Thread Angie Moore
All I'm trying to backup my Open Solaris box to one of our Windows shares. I'm trying to do this using a rather simple Bash script. However, I'm using the smbmount command to do it, but it needs a password to be inputted to work. Does anyone know how I can pass a password on a Bash script? Or

Re: [osol-discuss] back to windows share -possible automated?

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Hi Anne, Angie Moore wrote: All I'm trying to backup my Open Solaris box to one of our Windows shares. I'm trying to do this using a rather simple Bash script. However, I'm using the smbmount command to do it, but it needs a password to be inputted to work. Does anyone know how I can

Re: [osol-discuss] back to windows share -possible automated?

2007-08-24 Thread Angie Moore
Wow, you're helpful and condescending/smartass all in one! I suggest you learn your manners. BTW, my proposal is actually better than yours. Star has too many limitations, compared the usefulness of smbmount to a Windows share. You use smbmount in combination with cpio and it works wonderfully.

Re: [osol-discuss] back to windows share -possible automated?

2007-08-24 Thread Martin Bochnig
Angie Moore wrote: Wow, you're helpful and condescending/smartass all in one! I suggest you learn your manners. BTW, my proposal is actually better than yours. Star has too many limitations, compared the usefulness of smbmount to a Windows share. Aha, could you name a few? The star-author

Re: [osol-discuss] back to windows share -possible automated?

2007-08-24 Thread Angie Moore
No, thanks, I never use MS software (except sometimes MASM under IBM-DOS 2000 inside SunPCi3, for educational purposes). So sad to see you limit yourself like that. The more you know the farther you go. No truer words... Aha, could you name a few? The star-author is around here, and probably