Life on the OutSide

Now that you have Authentication Login via your Active Directory server (See my previous entry ) you now need to sort out your automount map...

The Solaris Special Interest Group (SIG) has been active since 2005 in a different guise, as London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG). The gr...

Password Authentication in Computer Science at Birkbeck was always very complicated for no reason. Over the years we had multiple passwords ...

Following on my last entry about Solaris 11 Automated Install with no network (Standalone) I thought I would post this update saying that I...

After my last blog entry about Solaris 11 Automated Install without a network boot I was thinking that we have all the building blocks to d...

After my last blog about Solaris 11 Automated Installer quick setup guide in a zone I did some more reading and I realised that you don...

Setting up an Automated Install server with Solaris 11 is now very easy. See my recent Solaris SIG talk about it but here is a quick guide....

I thought I would finally get SMTP AUTH working on my Solaris 11 servers, so that I could then setup my phone to send e-mail correctly. If y...

I thought I would finally get SMTP AUTH working on my Solaris 11 servers, so that I could then setup my phone to send e-mail correctly. So...

I work in education (UK, University) and we have bought a lot of Sun hardware over the years. Yes, the hardware was always a little more exp...

What I have always wanted to do is to have one location for all my users to store there files. At the moment we have a Windows Home filesys...

Finally did it. Being running Solaris Express Community Edition SXCE (last release was 129) on my work desktop for a few years now and was w...

As you are aware with every official release of OpenSolaris, comes a full download of all the IPS packages (7GB), but what happens if you wa...

Autoinstaller: Past & Present I gave a talk at the LOSUG meeting on Autoinstaller in OpenSolaris 2009.06 and will talk about what is...

If you want to install OpenSolaris on to many computers then you will need to use Automated Installer (AI) which allows you to remotely ins...