New Solaris users needs help please

[siulong2002]

I'm actually a windows server administrator but have always want to get into the BETTER os of unix!
I currently installed Solaris 10 and have absolutely no idea at all what to do with it. All I've been able to do is login as root and have a little sniff around. Is there not a GUI for solaris?
also how would i go about networking this machine.
go easy guy's I know this is really basic stuff!

Thanks in advance

 

[kHz]

http://www.sun.com

Read the documentation.

 

[siulong2002]

I've had a look through some of the documentation and still none the wiser as to how to get OpenWindows working. Is there an easy way to check if the installation was successful and if indeed i can even run OpenWindows???

 

[siulong2002]

This is the error message I'm getting

"It appears you are attempting to run the graphical Solaris Management Console from a terminal which does not have a suitable 'DISPLAY' enviroment. Please check your DISPLAY' settings and that the user identity of this terminal has access to the X server of this display"

I would really apprecitate anyones help.

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi. You would usually set your display in a login script like .profile (in your home directory). You can specify it like this:

export DISPLAY=<Your PC's IP address>:0.0

where the 0.0 are zeros. Let us know if this helps.

 

[daFranze]

@siulong2002

what exactly is your environment?
I guess a PC, with Keyboard, Mouse and Monitor?

You installed Solaris 10 for x86, isn't it?

An easy/simple check is to run 'pkginfo -p' to find out if your installation was sucessful for the packages installed. What did you install, since default Solaris (SPARC) Installation offers 4 different InstallClusters, beginning with a very small installation, no gui, no extras, up to 1,6GByte Installation for Sun/SPARC Clones...

Best Regards, Franz
--
Solaris System Manager from Munich, Germany
I used to work for Sun Microsystems Support (EMEA) for 5 years

 

[coffeysm]

If I remember correctly Solaris X does not come with OpenWindows, I thought CDE and Gnome are the window managers. Also to setup networking you need to use the route, ifconfig commands mostly. To keep your settings upon reboot you need to create a few files. /etc/hostname.xx0, /etc/nodename, /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/defaultrouter, /etc/nsswitch.conf.

/etc/hostname.xx0 - (Same name as in /etc/nodename, and /etc/hosts usually). The xx is the type of interface hme, bge, ce, eri, etc...

/etc/nodename - Actual name of system

/etc/hosts - Contains at a minimum
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (name in /etc/nodename)

/etc/resolv.conf - File used for DNS
search (your domainname)
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

/etc/defaultrouter - IP Address of router

/etc/nsswitch.conf - Tells Solaris how to lookup information, accounts, hosts, etc... (cp /etc/nsswitch.dns /etc/nsswitch.conf) to use DNS.

-How to bring up Interface manually
ifconfig xxx0 plumb
ifconfig xxx0 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask + broadcast + up
route add default xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I am doing this of the top of my head so I might have forgotten something if it doeesnt work let me know.