The Desk Top Revisited

Oh well here we are again, and now I am using MS Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit) for my desk top, I have a MSI 880GM-E43 motherboard with a AMD PhenomII x2 running at 3200 Mhz  with 4 MB of Kingston Ram, and a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT with two LCD monitors.
It runs most of my apps including: eclipse, NetBeans, arduino, Xilinx PlanAhead, TinyCad, and too many more for a reinstall. So what does all this mean. I don't really know. Since I have retired, I have been working on my flight simulator project at wordpress.com. I have had problems with Ethernet drives of all things. After a RMA'ed motherboard and new drivers everything is looks fine, maybe I should just cross my fingers! The people over at MSI are really good.
I would still like to have a real UNIX/LINUX desktop....one of these days....later

Out of work and out of luck

That really says it all. Well, the times are getting tougher by the day, and our wonderful government helps all the big guys, banks, stockbrokers, GM. But what ever happened to you and me....
Does any body care. Now don't get me wrong, I just lost every thing I own, yep all my office stuff is now the landlords, and since I was also living there to, he kept my clothes, and stuff..
Well he might have everything I own, but he can't get my mind.. and see I am still on the net... So what it was only stuff. And I can always get more stuff.

Getting Samba to work with Solaris 8 ... part 1

Lets have some more fun!

Problem:My NAS, FreeNAS running on a 1.5G P3 with 512Mb of memory, can not be seen by my SPARCUltra2 server, running Solaris 8, both are behind my firewall, and my FreeNAS(192.168.10.133) box is on a NAT with my other office boxes. So one way is to port forward my NAS to it's public address, then have my SPARCUltra2 server read from my NAS.

Solution #1:
well I lazy, like all system admins these days, so I figured that the fastest way to get Samba running was to graba package from www.sunfreeware.com. Next thing is to install the package with the following:

# pkgadd -d /usr/local/src/samba-3.0.25a-sol8-sparc-local

then being realy lazy I checked the web for the installation.....
edited etc/services
And he said: "Immediately after the line which reads:

 sunrpc  111/tcp  rpcbind

insert the two lines:

 netbios-ns      137/udp  # Samba nmbd
netbios-ssn     139/tcp  # Samba smbd

and, after the line which reads:

 ldaps  636/udp  # LDAP protocol over TLS/SSL (was sldap)

insert the line:

 swat   901/tcp  # Samba swat"

Now edit inetd.conf and add the following three lines to the end of the file:

netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd smbd
netbios-ns dgram udp wait root /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd
swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat"

I'll tell you right off the bat that doesn't work!
re-edit the three lines inetd.conf and where there is /usr/local/samba/bin change them to:
/usr/local/samba/sbin (don't they love to move files around between releases!)

This still didn't work though, so when we go to the /usr/local/samba/sbin directory and execute any of the files with
# ./swat
ld.so.1: ./swat: fatal: libintl.so.8: open failed: no such file or directory.
All three programs crash with a library problem which I don't have time to deal with now:
More later - CA Harrison.

Trials & Tribulations in replacing my XP desktop 3

Well here we are again... I just might have a solution for my desktop (light at the end of the tunnel)?? Ok I just got a Tutung box it's a dual 750mhz U3 like my (Sunblade 1000 server) , the plan is to shove in 2 nice video cards and then the Sun pci-pc so I can run my Skype crap on it in a native XP system and I don't even have to emulate anything.
I just started the download for Solaris 10, nope not the free shit, not the open stuff, but just the same old Solaris 1o that I will be putting on my new Sunblade 1000 server.

Trials & Tribulations in replacing my XP desktop 2

Ok here I am again this time were going to try an load Nexenta... Ok downloaded the Nexenta Core Platform (Elatte_Release) ISO stuck it in my P4 and guess what it would not load what else can I say Back to XP for a while... FORMAT!!

Trials & Tribulations in replacing my XP desktop 1

Well I have been using Solaris since 2.x and SunOS before.. Just call me a Sun bigot! That is in my server space. I have currently a pair of Ultra 2, with dual 400Mhz cpus, running my web server, and db servers, just very happy with Solaris 8. I have a pair of SunBlade1000 that will replace them though (750Mhz U3).
Unfortunately, I talk out of the other side of my mouth for my desktop. Well my office desktop with two monitors, XP service pack 2, Skype and what not was getting a they say just a little buggy, like 10-20 seconds for the ok box to come up when you wanted to save something like a photo. Just for you that have to know it was a:

• Intel 3.8Ghz Dual Core Cpu
• 1Gb Memory
• Intel D875PBZ motherboard
• Matrox Millennium P650 Dual head Video Card (2 Sun 21" Monitors)
  
• Creative Labs Audio Card
• 3Com 10/100 Network Card

So being a glutton for punishment I started on my quest to replace my XP office OS with a open source OS.

Ok so I downloaded the new Opensolaris, and installed it. Very impressive quick no problem install (I though). First thing that I have to do is assign my IP address, etc to the box. That only took 2-3 hrs. Well out of the box its a DHCP and you DON'T HAVE A CHOICE! ( As we used to say you can't get here from here.)

It turns out that you have to disable Network Auto Magic service (NWAM) and enable traditional networking service

svcadm enable physical:default
svcadm disable physical:nwam

Got that done.

So now I tried in vain to log in as root to configure the system (from the console) ... that right no joy.. they had it set to a role... Like I'm trying to get away from XP/NT etc. and back to my comfort zone.

rolemod -K type=normal root

That was last night, Oh just give me back my Open Window (Solaris 2.5), I just go fed up and said lets look a Nexenta maybe they did a better job. FORMAT!