Connecting to my Solair Server 2

[toddyl]

Hi,

I have a Sunfire V240 which was working perfectly until last night when there was a power outage. Now I can only ping the server but cannot log into it via ftp, telnet, ssh etc. These all used to work fine prior to the power outage.

I know nothing about connecting to Servers but I tried to connect my laptop to the server via a LAN cable. Again I tried to telnet, ssh etc. onto the server but could not as these were not available.

Telnet:
U:\>telnet mysun
Connecting To mysun...Could not open connection to the host, on port 23: Connect failed

FTP:
U:\>ftp mysun
> ftp: connect :Unknown error number
ftp>

I've rebooted the machine and still getting the same problem. Does anyone know what I can do to resolve this?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[bfitzmai]

Try to ping your defaultrouter... The IP address for that device can be found /etc/defaultrouter... You can also try to telnet or ftp back to your laptop from the V240 to see if you get any error messages.

 

[elgrandeperro]

You have to get on the console to see if you are in single user mode first.

Do a "who -r" to see the run level or see if it is asking for your root password.

Most likely it is asking for some repairs...

gene

 

[toddyl]

Thanks for the replies, but how do I get on the console.

I've tried attaching my laptop directly to the server but cannot connect to it with Putty or anything like that so therefore I cannot see the servers screen.

 

[Annihilannic]

You need to connect the serial port on the server to your laptop using a serial cable, and use some terminal software (for example HyperTerm).

Or else hook up a monitor and keyboard, if the v240 can take them?

Annihilannic.

 

[toddyl]

I have tried to connect my laptop to the server with a serial cable, however if I need to telnet onto the box or anything like that I cant as it keeps telling me connection refused.

I do hot have a monitor I can connect to the server so have to try this with my laptop. Any ideas?

 

[Annihilannic]

I have tried to connect my laptop to the server with a serial cable

...and what happened? What terminal software did you use? You can't use anything that goes over an IP network because this is a direct serial connection.

cndcadams made a detailed post on the subject here:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=790372

Annihilannic.

 

[toddyl]

Sorry but I'm not an IT person and know nothing of the various calbes, pins etc.

Basically on the back of the SunFire machine there is a port labelled with Serial. This port appears to take the standard LAN type of cable that you would normally use to connect your laptop into the company domain. I insert this cable into the back of the SunFire and the other end to the LAN port on my laptop. I then tried to use Putty to connect via Raw, Telnet, RLogin and SSH but all came back with connection refused. I cant think of any other way to connect to see what is going on.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Annihilannic]

You need to plug this into the serial port on your laptop, not the network port; unfortunately the serial port on your laptop is most likely a male 9-pin D-sub connector, so to do that you would need an adapter from the RJ45 type network connection.

You can't use PuTTY for this because all of the protocols that PuTTY speaks are IP network protocols. You need to use something like HyperTerminal (which comes with Windows) to communicate via the serial port.

Perhaps power-cycling the machine would be the simplest option for you, however there is a slight risk of damaging data, and you would have no way of knowing what had gone wrong in the first place.

Annihilannic.

 

[toddyl]

Your a star.

That worked perfectly.
I hooked it up and connected via HyperTerm on COM1 and was able to access the system. Got some funny errors and the system was waiting on a prompt of hitting ctrl-D to resume as normal. Did this and all appears to be fine. Can access it now so will be able to check that all is as it should be.

Thank for all your help and patience.

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi toddyl, glad you're sorted. If, as you say, Annihilannic is a star, why not award one?

 

[toddyl]

How do I do that?