[osol-discuss] Using Active Directory as name service

2012-03-21 Thread Andrew Watkins
solaris kdyndns[3689]: [ID 904790 user.error] dyndns: both non-secure and secure updates failed on all configured name servers As always thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] SASL support in sendmail

2012-01-20 Thread Andrew Watkins
I know this is a Solaris 11 point, but I thought still good place to post questions just in cas ethe answer is out there. I thought I would set-up Solaris 11 version of Sendmail with AUTH SASL, but when I got to the final part, I get the error: # /usr/lib/sendmail -d0 -bt /dev/null

Re: [osol-discuss] NFS Can not remove a property

2011-12-14 Thread Andrew Watkins
PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE tank/cindy share name=cindy,path=/tank/cindy,prot=nfs,sec=sys local On 12/13/11 09:47, Andrew Watkins wrote: I know this is a Solaris 11 point, but I thought it would be still good to post strange behavior with Solaris 11. At least if anyone else notices it and to decide

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 11 and Samba and change ACL do not work

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Watkins
, Andrew On 12/10/11 05:05 PM, Chris Ridd wrote: On 9 Dec 2011, at 16:05, Andrew Watkins wrote: Hi, I will try here as my first port of call. I am using Samba to server files to our Windows users and I want them to change permissions of files so they can give access to other users. Before any

[osol-discuss] NFS Can not remove a property

2011-12-13 Thread Andrew Watkins
-- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Solaris 11 and Samba and change ACL do not work

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Watkins
? The blog entries I have followed (why are they never 100% complete!) http://blog.mc-thias.org/?title=registering-a-samba-solaris-10-server-as-a-ms-ad-membermore=1c=1tb=1pb=1 http://blog.allanglesit.com/2011/03/solaris-11-join-ad-domain-for-samba/ Any pointers? Cheers, -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck

Re: [osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-16 Thread Andrew Watkins
find it the best way to configure a needed system. That said, using sudo to just avoid the use of RBAC is probably not the best use. Brian On 11/11/11 11:37 AM, Andrew Watkins wrote: I have lost the ability of making a user have access to root on Solaris 11 using the command pfexec. On the old

[osol-discuss] Is raidz root support on Solaris 11

2011-11-15 Thread Andrew Watkins
Can I ask if raidz is support on root with Solaris 11? I am having problem doing it from auto-installer and I just thought that may be the reason. Cheers, Andrew ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] pfexec does not work any longer

2011-11-11 Thread Andrew Watkins
pfexec working again? Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] ACL for window

2011-01-11 Thread Andrew Watkins
guess this is a bug? Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ On 01/11/11 10:29 AM, Ryan Park wrote: Hello all, First I like to thank you for the help. Thank you. I have created smb share on opensolaris 134. joined windows 2008 active directory and map

[osol-discuss] Is Solaris 11 dead on new desktops. Core i5

2010-12-08 Thread Andrew Watkins
will not bother working on it. Also, I guess since it requires Intel help then the OpenSolaris versions of Solaris will not get any fixes either. So, the question Solaris 11 is dead on desktops is becoming true Cheers, Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Can't bring windows back to or from to solaris 11

2010-12-03 Thread Andrew Watkins
you are attempting to connect to has to be setup to allow connections from other hosts. You use xhost for this. Something like this: xhost +ipAddressOfRemoteClient or xhost +NameofRemoteClient see man xhost -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] Update/patch policy?

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Watkins
trial/evaluation software. Like Solaris 10, production use requires support contracts. But, I thought security patches were always available for free? But, I could be wrong! Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] samba version

2010-06-01 Thread Andrew Watkins
Brandon High wrote: On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 1:06 PM, John Ryan john.r...@internode.on.net wrote: Why not CIFS then? - It's streaks ahead of Samba Samba has some advantages, such as the ability to act as domain controller or AD master. The native cifs server certainly wins on performance,

Re: [osol-discuss] Automated installer problem

2010-05-27 Thread Andrew Watkins
contain valid Solaris partition OM May 27 03:48:27 Couldn't set fdisk attributes. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] So when are we gonna fork this sucker?

2010-04-14 Thread Andrew Watkins
the project. George -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [storage-discuss] Problems with iscsi initiator with opensolaris 2009.06

2010-03-09 Thread Andrew Watkins
Just wondering if anyone worked out the problem with the slow reboot with iscsi. I am seeing this myself now. Andrew -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Unable to ugrade from b132 to b133 : system freeze

2010-02-21 Thread Andrew Watkins
I thought it was a problem with the graphics driver, but you are right as soon as I start gdm the box dies and my remote ssh session are dead.. I will try again to see if I can get any error messages... Only got 1GB! Same here with me - thought that it may be some problem in the versions

[osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
Has any one gone to http://www.sun.com today? You get http://www.oracle.com Very quick change -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Goodbye Sun.com

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
Well, I am sure over the next few weeks we will get lots of version upgrades: Oracle Studio 12.2 Oracle Solaris 10 02/10 and OracleOS 5.10.1 Andrew On 28/01/2010 21:02, Sergio Schvezov wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 22:24 +0800, Norbert P. Copones wrote: but a link to opensolaris is

[osol-discuss] Is the default 512MB to small for swap

2009-12-01 Thread Andrew Watkins
I am just wondering if the default lower limit should be increased from 512MB when installed on small memory machines and depending on size of disk! The reason is I just tried a image-update of OpenSolaris 2009.06 to the latest dev release 127 and had the following message: pkg: There is

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris under Oracle?

2009-10-26 Thread Andrew Watkins
the corner. Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Re: Oracle 10g on OpenSolaris (Solaris 5.11)

2009-08-19 Thread Andrew Watkins
in any form ...etc 8.1.1 Will support http, https client/ server protocols 8.1.4 Will support boot from network but use local client profile on USB, CD/DVD 8.2.1 CD/DVD/USB automated installation will be supported -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE end-of-life plans

2009-08-11 Thread Andrew Watkins
I think this is a great shame since OpenSolaris Indiana 2009.06 is not ready to replace Solaris. I think many users are using SXCE since they want the new features of OpenSolaris, but Indiana is not ready for that job. Here is the reasons including my real bugbear! - Automated Install

Re: [osol-discuss] OpenSolaris 2009.06 missing SXCE b114 desktop applications

2009-06-02 Thread Andrew Watkins
Andrew, With that in mind how would a user find out which package has the given program in it. So, I want gimp how do I know which package it is in?? Andrew russell aspinwall wrote: Hi, At present I have both OpenSolaris 2009.06 and Solaris Express CE b114 running on my computer within

Re: [osol-discuss] Opensolaris Bible: Buy it!

2009-03-10 Thread Andrew Watkins
Of course, however I just received an email from Amazon that my order got delayed. It has just arrived from Amazon UK. It's a big book... Andrew ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCE b100 release date?

2008-10-23 Thread Andrew Watkins
100. Andrew -- Andrew Watkins * Birkbeck College http://notallmicrosoft.blogspot.com/ ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] I want to boot OpenSolaris from USB disk

2008-06-06 Thread Andrew Watkins
Chen, How are you making the bootable USB in the first place? Have you followed the example which can be located on ether of these two blogs: http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/opensolaris_developer_preview_on_usb or

Re: [osol-discuss] In Unix

2008-03-20 Thread Andrew Watkins
Come on folks! The first answer should be What has this got to do with OpenSolaris? But you are presuming that the file has only the 4 lines in it. What happens if the crontab is much longer # more data here 0 0 * * * /usr/bin/true #Start of lines added by SUNWscu 20 4 * * 0

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Watkins
It's true, OpenSolaris (Indiana) will replace Solaris Express Developer Edition after SXDE 1/08. I am a bit surprised that you think the product will be up to the same level in a few of months time as the current SXDE 1/08. At the moment the two areas which concern me are how I can do

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Developer Preview 2 Available

2008-02-15 Thread Andrew Watkins
The preview is absolutely an experiment. Indiana itself is an experiment. OpenSolaris? Well, I don't know what to call it ;-) I see Indiana is an experiment well I think it is more than that! From: Net Talks Webcast Details: Sorting Out Solaris Releases

[osol-discuss] SXCE Build 81 Looking Good

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Watkins
I thought for a change I would say a Thank You for the latest build. Installed it on my laptop and I was pleased to see so new features and some working ones. My wireless WPA-PSK worked. It did not work on previous releases A fully functional webserver ready to go (web stack) + GUI. I used

Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody now will Oracle make 11g release for Solaris x86?

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
Hi, I think Tom has spelt the problem out very well. Oracle will only release a Open(Solaris) x86-64 version when they have finished all there priority releases and then depending what demand there is for the product. I got my reply back from Oracle and now they just point me to there support

Re: [osol-discuss] Anybody now will Oracle make 11g release for Solaris x86?

2008-01-25 Thread Andrew Watkins
I have been looking into this recently and I got a reply from those Oracle people, which is not what I was hoping for. Again it is down to the same old problem of demand for an Application on OpenSolaris/Solaris x86 platform. I guess it is the same problem the Linux people had a few years ago,

Re: [osol-discuss] chrooting ftp users?

2008-01-23 Thread Andrew Watkins
is there a way to configure the ftp server in Solaris in such a way that users be automatically chdir-ed to their home directory and that they see it as / ? I don't care if ftpd actually calls chroot() or not. I tried to set some option in /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess, but with miserable

[osol-discuss] Will OpenSolaris work on a intel desktop Quad processor

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Watkins
I am finally biting the bullet and ditching my work machine - a 9 year old Ultra 10 - for a new system I thought I would go for the fastest cpu on the market. I already have OpenSolaris running on Coreā„¢2 Duo box. It may sound a silly question, since Solaris does run on Quad-Core Intel Xeon,

Re: [osol-discuss] OT: Sun joins the dark side :-D

2007-09-14 Thread Andrew Watkins
Likewise, I haven't seen the Sun One Directory server being able to fully and completely replace Microsoft Active Directory because it is fully interoperable with AD, meaning that it can supplant it. At the end of the day this is better for Sun than Microsoft. Microsoft don't care about

Re: [osol-discuss] Fwd: Sun Device Detection Tool 1.2 is released

2007-08-06 Thread Andrew Watkins
I have tried this both ways on different revs of Solaris and sometimes I get the submission button and sometimes I don't. and .. I don't know why either. Is there any chance that the submission only appears when you are running on Solaris 10 11/06 or Developer 5/07 releases. This seems to

Re: [osol-discuss] Flash Player 9 for solaris is released to the public.

2007-07-12 Thread Andrew Watkins
Don't make the same mistake as me and install Flash on a Solaris 9 box. OK! It does say Solaris 10, but I thought it may work. Andrew This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] What CPU run 64 bit kernel OpenSolaris

2007-07-05 Thread Andrew Watkins
Thanks for all the information, but the problem I am having - well not a problem - just a general question. What I have done is boot a Intel Core 2 (running Windows) off the latest OpenSolaris B67 x86 and entered the Singe User Shell straight away. # isainfo -v 32-bit i386 applications Now is

[osol-discuss] What CPU run 64 bit kernel OpenSolaris

2007-07-04 Thread Andrew Watkins
I know you may think it is a silly question, but I am unable to find the answer. OK! We know Sun SPARC chips all run 64 bit OpenSolaris, but which AMD and Intel cpu can run it as well: - AMD Opteron run 64bit kernel - Intel Xeon run 64bit kernel but what about: - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: SXCE Build 60 available

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew Watkins
After every release someone always ask what is new in it and I think it is a valid question, which is not always easy to find out. I think it is a little unfair to pass the buck to one group to keep this up to date, so why don't we ask all Communities to have a page on there home site to tell

[osol-discuss] Re: ZFS causing slow boot up

2007-02-17 Thread Andrew Watkins
Are you exporting these filesystems or have quotas on them, since I believe there is a slow boot problem with that! This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Language CD

2007-02-16 Thread Andrew Watkins
off topic, but how did you manage to install the software on the U10. I just did the same and it would not install any software pass CD1 I go through the install procedure and it install of the packages from CD 1 and then reports: Unable to run launcher without Java following CDs will not be

[osol-discuss] Re: telnetd exploit

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Watkins
I guess another thing to think about is when did the telnetd change, since Solaris 9 and below do not have this problem. And I read somewhere that Solaris 10 (First release) did not have it. Did the OpenSolaris community add this bug or was it from Sun and why was it changed? Only a

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: telnetd exploit

2007-02-12 Thread Andrew Watkins
Good question. Let's spin it around a bit, though: if somebody did enable root logins via telnet on a UNIX system in this day and age, should they really have anything to do with UNIX? You are right that opening root to remote access a machine via any way (telnet/rsh/ssh) is asking for

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-10 Thread Andrew Watkins
it's not completely clear to me how this filesystem is used and how you are planning to manage your alternate service, so the following may or may not be useful... I will clear up exactly what I was hoping for. Want I wanted is to mirror 2 disks on 2 different machines, so that both disks

[osol-discuss] Re: Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-09 Thread Andrew Watkins
My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. Microsoft's DFS is a method for creating another copy of your data and being able

[osol-discuss] Distributed File System for Solaris

2006-05-08 Thread Andrew Watkins
My manager asked me if I could a mirror copy of our /var/mail on another system, just in case the system went down. He suggested that Windows has DFS (Distributed File System) and I said I would look into it. Over the weekend I thought of CacheFS which comes will solaris which allows you to

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal to remove /usr/sfw and its dependencies from th

2006-03-21 Thread Andrew Watkins
I just had a quick look at /usr/sfw and there are many packages which you can remove if you wish, since there is about 16000 files made out of 93 packages. If you don't want it remove it, but at least you have the choice and I find myself not install as much software from sunfreeware.com as I

[osol-discuss] Re: Has Microsoft fixed the single sign on problem with Windows 2003 R2

2006-02-23 Thread Andrew Watkins
Some interesting comments about Single Sign on: 1) One thing which I think we are agreed on is LDAP is the best solution with some sort of communication with Windows Active Directory. 2) Sun's Directory Server Enterprise Edition and Access Manager is another solution but I have to say that it

[osol-discuss] Has Microsoft fixed the single sign on problem with Windows 2003 R2

2006-01-19 Thread Andrew Watkins
I have just read the UNIX Interoperability in Windows Server 2003 R2 and after looking at the online demo it looks like we can now import all our NIS stuff into AD. It seems that Active Directory can act as a NIS server and can give us a single password for all us Solaris / Windows

[osol-discuss] Solaris 10 1/06 Which Solaris Express Version

2005-12-21 Thread Andrew Watkins
I see that Solaris 10 1/06 has just been released and looking at the documnetation it looks like it is based on Solaris Express 11/05 (no ZFS). Is this correct, or is it based in an early version. I guess the question is when do Sun take the Express Version and turn it into a full Solaris