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I have a V880 server running solaris8, with 12 36Gb hardrives... We just recieved all new 72 gb hardrives. My assistant thought that if he just brought down the server and put in the new disks everything would work (he was very wrong).... So then in a panic he just replace the OS harddrive...

Hello all smart ones, I have been tasked with adding more HD space to a SUN BLADE 2000 workstation. Can I buy just any external HD for this, with any size?? And if so what might be some of the gotcha's I need to keep an eye out for. Any help is greatly appreciated....

Hi all experts, I have a SUN BLADE 150 with Solaris 8 loaded. I am trying to install a Pioneer DVD/CD writer (DVR-AO6U) onto my system. I took out the CD reader that came installed on the system and just replaced it with the Pioneer. Everything seems to work. i can read and copy from CD's...

Hi all, Need some simple help please. I have a dlt tape autoloader hooked to my Solaris 8 V880 server. I am trying to backup some files off the server onto the DLT tapes. I was going to just use the TAR command. BUT I can't figure out what the autoloaders device name is.... I was trying to...

I am trying to download patches for my Unix Solaris 8 system. But I don't know which one to download. Should I download the Solaris 8 or the Solaris 8 x86? And what is the difference??

I have V880 server with 10 disks installed and working. Disk0 is the OS and the other disks are RAID5 together. I have a new disk to add and I want it to be part of the OS and not the RAID. The new disk is exatly the same as all the other disks. And I'm using Solaris 8. How do I add Disk 11...

I installed Star Office onto my Solaris 8 machine.... I was root when I did this... When I log on as root I see the star office icon on the workspace and it works, BUT when I log on as a user I don't see the star office icon... Where or what do I need to do so that the users can see and use...

ok I am running Solaris 8 with NIS+... On the server I have 15 user accounts setup and work on the server. However I can't logon a client with one of these user accounts that exisist on the server. I get the error message Login incorrect try again. BUT when I logon the client as root and and...

Hi all, I am suppose to setup two monitors to one Solaris 6 box. Now I only have one video card on the box, and I have one monitor hooked into that. How do I hook a second monitor up onto this system??? I was givin a plug thingy that hooks to the end of the monitor cable and the other side...

Hi this is going to be a silly question.... The sysad person before me locked up the SUN server and hmmmm seems to have taken the keys with them... Does anyone know where exactly to go to get a new set of keys??? I can't bring the server down for maintance or open up any of the panels without...

some people have install a nic card onto my SUNBLADE 2000 but I'm not sure if it is working right. How do I check to see if the card was installed correctly??? I've been trying to get out on the network with this machine but seem to be failing.... I've also noticed that on boot up i get an...

I have new SUN Blade 2000, and just installed the SUN XVR-1000 graphics Accelerator card. O I'm running Solaris 8.... However I don't understand the users guide for this... I've never used 2 monitors before so I'm not sure how to setup the system. I want to be able to view 2 different...

I'm searching for help on sourceing the .cshrc file. I'm using solaris 8. I have 12 user accounts on my server. I modified the .cshrc file for user-1 to get some programs running, and instead of making the same change for all the users I just copied and replaced user-1's .cshrc file to all...

I was looking at my performance meter and relized it wasn't working. So I pulled up the error watch terminal and got the message "/usr/dt/bin/dtexec stdperfmeter Please enable rstatd".... I didn't understand anything I got back from the man pages on this, and most I didn't see how...

I have 1 solaris8 server with 2 user accounts on it... I also have 2 workstations with Solaris8 no users (other then root). I'm using NIS+ to authenticat the users (i guess)... Now on the workstations I auto mounted (went it to auto_home) the home directory of the user from the server so when...

I am new to being a system administrator and having lots of silly problems. I have user accounts setup using NIS+ (or so I think). When I go to logon as a user the first message I get after putting in the password is "password does not decrpyt secret key (type-192-0) for...

Hi All, Thanks again jad for your help, the script worked... I am running Solaris 8 with NIS+. When I go to any of my clients and log in as a NIS+ user I get "DT Messaging System could not be started........" and then all you can do is click the ok button and go back to the login...

Hi.. Can anyone tell me how to add NIS+ users to my server AND to my clients.... I'm very new to being a Solaris 8 LAN administrator... The server is setup with NIS+ and I think so are the workstations. I'm running Solaris 8 on all the machines.. I don't know NIS+ at all so I'm very confused...