Life on the OutSide

Here are some quick instruction on how to install PostgreSQL on Solaris 11.3. PostgreSQL 9.5: http://www.postgresql.org/ Add a user ...

I think more and more people will start using Kernel Zone and I have a feeling that will soon be the only zone that Solaris will offer soon....

As you will be aware Oracle Solaris 11.3 supports SMB 2.1 which brings improvements over SMB/Samba 3.6 version on Solaris 11.2: ...

This is a follow on from last last blog entry " Oracle Solaris 11 Derived Manifest with Automated Installation ", where I mentione...

I have been looking at Derived Manifest recently so that I can have one manifest to control the installation of Oracle Solaris 11.2 FCS on o...

A quick blog entry about getting Solaris PXE boot working with Microsoft Windows DHCP server. I was always told it was easy but I never mana...

After many years of being faithful to UW IMAP it was time to move on. The move was required since UW IMAP was no longer being supported and ...

As you know Oracle Solaris 11 (11.1, 11.2) comes with Firefox 17 ESR and Mozilla 17 ESR, which is very good news. I have had no problems wit...

Following on from my last blog about "Setting up SSL for Solaris 11 LDAP client (changing AD password from Solaris)" I thought I ...

I have been using LDAP for years for our authentication and using LDAP Active Directory for about 3 years, but this was always using ldap s...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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