I tried to sleep in as long as I could. I was quite tired after being up so late last night. But we have nothing going on this morning so I stayed in bed until after eight thirty with my very snuggly dog who had me almost completely pushed out of bed from him trying …
Author Archives: Scott Alan Miller
September 22, 2007: Surprise Day of Work
No sleeping in for me today. I had to be up before eight this morning so that I could log in and work “at the office”. I have a bit of scheduled work this morning so I won’t be doing anything exciting today. I ended up working from before eight until well after six in …
Mounting ISO Files on Linux
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 …
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 …