Often these days, especially when working with operating system downloaded ISO images, it would be handy to be able to work directly with the contents of the ISO files rather than to burn them to CD and place them physically into a CDROM drive. Sometimes this is because the machine that you are working with …
Monthly Archives: September 2007
Simple SAMBA on Solaris 10
Having built a simple NFS file server off of a SUN SunFire V100 server with Solaris 10 Update 4 (8/7) my next task is to share the same directory via Microsoft’s CIFS (aka Server Message Block or SMB) protocol. In order to do this we will need the open source software package SAMBA. This is …
Easy NFS Sharing on Solaris 10
If there is one service made easy with Solaris it is NFS. Originally developed and designed by SUN NFS is the industry standard UNIX file sharing mechanism today and is likely to remain the dominant player for some time due to its ubiquity, openness, time proven protocol, simplicity and ease of management not to mention …
Getting Started with ZFS on Solaris
If you have been following along with my series on the SunFire V100 you know that I have installed Solaris 10 Core 8/7 onto it (adding in SSH and BASH packages to make it actually useful in the real world) and have put the root volume under the control of the Solaris Volume Manager or …
September 21, 2007: Oreo Day
I just realized that I never posted for Wednesday, September 19th. Oh well. I have no idea by now what happened then. Nothing important, I am sure. I went to work. I ate dinner. Yada yada yada. You all know the drill. Today is my work from home day this week. I had to reschedule …