I have an old Sol 8 box and I cannot telnet into it nor connect to the internet. I am logging in as root. I have SBC Yahoo DSL using a 2wire DSL router. What I have done: /etc/hosts:192.168.x.xx bobafett loghost bobafett /etc/hostname.le0:bobafett /etc/nodename:bobafett /etc/netmasks:192.168.x.xx 255.255.255.0 /etc/resolv.conf: domain sbcglobal.net /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 68.94.xxx.x /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver 68.94.xxx.x (these are not duplicates) Swtiched the lan cables between the windows box (this one) and the solaris box: same. I am getting a link light on the back of the solaris box and at the router. I was getting this during startup: "no carrier - cable disconnected or hub test link disable?" So I did: bash-2.03#eeprom 'tpe-link-test?=false' which stopped the msg of course but was not a fix. When I login to the router admin page from one of my Windows boxes, I can see both Windows boxes and the Solaris box on Home network summary. The solaris box shows as 'bobafett' and as inactive. All three boxes had the same firewall settings. I manually changed the FW settings for bobafett to ensure it allowed ftp, telnet, nnmp, blah blah blah but I still cannot telnet into it, use ftp, or get out to the internet. bash-2.03# ping bobafett bobafett is alive bash-2.03# route -n get 192.168.x.xx route to: 192.168.x.xx destination: 192.168.x.xx mask: 255.255.255.0 interface: le0 flags: <UP,DONE> recvpipe,sendpipe,ssthresh,rtt,msec,rttvar,hopcount,mtu,expire 0 0 0 0 0 0 8232 0 Ps -ef | grep net returns nothing. Telnet and ftp are both enabled in /etc/inetd.conf. Any thoughts? I am fairly new to unix. Thanks Never... give... up!

Addendum to my previous post. From /etc/inetd.conf: ftp stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/in.ftpd in.ftpd telnet stream tcp6 nowait root /usr/sbin/in.telnetd in.telnetd Never... give... up!

Might paw through this. I haven't use solaris 8 on a sparc so I can't say for sure. http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/80... Pretty sure that there was a config app but you can do it file by file. Solaris 10 still has all those files. Might see this too. http://www.tech-recipes.com/solaris... I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.

Thanks for the links jefro. I will check them out this evening. Update: I ran sys-unconfig and manually re-entered the network info. I verified the name service info from my carrier. Each time I updated the name service, there was a problem using NIS+, NIS, or DNS. I also verified the DNS info with my carrier. The only error I can remember is from using NIS, which stated in part:"ybind could not communicate to yserver. Please run ybinit -c after login". Never... give... up!