From: distantnorth@netscape.net
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 10:07:44 EDT
Hi, everyone,
I'm hoping that someone has been doing Solaris long enough and has a good enough memory to help me with some legacy SparcStation 5 and 10 systems running Solaris 1.1.2/SunOS 4.1.4 systems which are absolutely driving me nuts. (Oh, and no, I can't upgrade them because of a legacy app.)
Anyway, these boxes arrived from a now closed office and needed new IP addresses. I did run /usr/etc/install/sys-unconfig and then go through a manual configuration. At first they wouldn't communicate at all. I took some hard coding of netmask and broadcast address a previous admin had done in /etc/rc.local, added an appropriate line to /etc/netmasks, did put the NIS master and slave in /etc/hosts.equiv, did put appropriate entries in /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/defaultdomain, and /etc/defaultrouter. The net result is that the box is now up on the network and resolving fine through DNS. The minute I try to put it back into the NIS domain is when I run into trouble. It won't see the NIS master and won't see the domain. This despite the fact that I can communicate with the NIS master and slave just fine via telnet, ftp, ping, etc...
(Yes, I know what I just described is a security nightmare. I'll address that soon enough.)
What am I missing? What stupid little Solaris 1.1.x trick do I not know? This is my first exposure to the ancient BSD-based Solaris and it hasn't been a happy experience so far.
Any ideas are muchly appreciated.
All the best,
Caity
(who is just fine with Solaris 2.x, 7, 8, and 9)
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