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Friday, December 06, 2013

Windows 7 client Printer Queue fails when printing to CUPS Server via IPP

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A short entry, since if you have setup a cups server and you have set up the Windows 7 clients to print to it via IPP you may find the windo...
Friday, October 18, 2013

Solaris 11: Setup Printer server using Cups and Windows 7 x64

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Now that Solaris 11.1 now comes with cups v1.4.5 I thought I would replace our old Solaris 10 lpd server with a cups set up. The printer ser...
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Friday, September 13, 2013

Setup Samba in a zone with Oracle Solaris 11.1 and join a Windows Active Directory Server (ADS)

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I have been running Samba on Solaris 11 zone for a while now and I thought I would finally write the instructions up. First, why am I using ...
Thursday, May 02, 2013

Setting up Oracle Solaris 11 with DHCP and LDAP

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Someone asked me how to setup a LDAP client on Solaris if you are using DHCP. I thought it would be a simple answer since Solaris comes wit...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

UKOUG Solaris SIG

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

UKOUG Solaris SIG (LOSUG) 2011 Presentations

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

UKOUG Solaris SIG (LOSUG) 2010 Presentations

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

UKOUG Solaris SIG (LOSUG) 2009 Presentations

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

UKOUG Solaris SIG (LOSUG) 2008 Presentations

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The Solaris Special Interest Group (SIG) has been active since 2005 in a different guise, as London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG). The gro...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

UKOUG Solaris SIG (LOSUG) 2007 Presentations

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

UKOUG Solaris SIG (LOSUG) 2005 Presentations

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The Solaris Special Interest Group (SIG) has been active since 2005 in a different guise, as London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG). The gro...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

UKOUG Solaris SIG November & December Slides

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Here are the last 2 talks of 2012. It has been a good year and for the Solaris SIG and 2 goods talks to end it. Roll on 2013: December 20...
Monday, November 19, 2012

Solaris 11 Automount (auto.home) with Active Directory

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Now that you have Authentication Login via your Active Directory server (See my previous entry ) you now need to sort out your automount map...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

UKOUG Solaris SIG 2012 Slides & Video so far

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The Solaris Special Interest Group (SIG) has been active since 2005 in a different guise, as London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG). The gr...
Wednesday, October 03, 2012

Solaris 11 Authentication Login with Active Directory

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Password Authentication in Computer Science at Birkbeck was always very complicated for no reason. Over the years we had multiple passwords ...
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Friday, March 09, 2012

Combine Solaris Automated Install and Repository on one image. Success

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Following on my last entry about Solaris 11 Automated Install with no network (Standalone) I thought I would post this update saying that I...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Solaris 11 Automated Install with no network (Standalone)

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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...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Solaris 11 Automated Install without a network boot

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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...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Solaris 11 Automated Installer quick setup guide in a zone

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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....
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

Solaris 11: Setting up Sendmail / SASL to handle SMTP AUTH

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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...
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Andrew Watkins
London, United Kingdom
I work at Birkbeck College, Computer Science and started off using PDP-11 and a couple of Dec Ultras, but that is a long time ago. My expertise is with Solaris, but worst luck I have turn my hand to every O/S under the sun! I first dipped my tones into Sun when we purchased a hand full of SLC, IPX and a Sun 470 Server running SunOS (I can't even tell what version it was!). Life is now a battle to stop the Microsoft giant taking over our lives.........
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