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Name: Jogi
Date: February 28, 2002 at 22:32:45 Pacific
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I just got my hands on a sun sparc workstation 2 , i need to get my sun machine on the network , im living in the dorms and our school provides us ip address i have my sun machine hooked to the ethernet but dont know the process of getting an ip from our dhcp server . i need to configure my machine .if anyone could help me out i'd really appreciate it .

Thanks,
Jogi



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Name: kumar
Date: March 1, 2002 at 07:07:29 Pacific
Reply:

Hai

i think u know ur dhcp server ip.
give that ip in the /etc/hosts file

then give
give #ifconfig -a
and find the interface if it is hme0
give
#touch /etc/hostname.hme0

bye


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Response Number 2
Name: Jim
Date: March 3, 2002 at 03:18:25 Pacific
Reply:

What should be in /etc/hostname.hme0 ???


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Response Number 3
Name: kumar
Date: March 4, 2002 at 10:25:00 Pacific
Reply:

Hai jim,

in the client side u have to create
an empty file(#touch /etc/hostname.hme0),no need to put any data in that file.

bye


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Response Number 4
Name: rayehan
Date: March 7, 2002 at 19:01:25 Pacific
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Hi Jim,

How do I connect to the internate with solaries 8, I have a small dlink router.

thanks
Rayehan


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Response Number 5
Name: ramkumar
Date: July 3, 2002 at 21:48:46 Pacific
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hai,
i have problem with network configuring with solaris 8 .i have installed solaris 8 in my machine when i try to configure with other machine using solstice lancher it says solstice registry error check whether adminsuite software installed.what is the error can you let me know how to configure solaris 8 if u can help me it would great help to me
ramkumar


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