Monthly Archives: June 2009

Goodbye MediaPortal, Hello XBMC!

It’s been a few years since I first dedicated a computer to be hooked up to my TV. The ideal, a nice pretty interface to access my digital content from. I’ve used MythTV, Freevo, my XBox 360 via TVersity, and … Continue reading

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Suddenly can’t login to OpenSolaris 2009.06 CIFS share

I woke up this morning and couldn’t get onto my CIFS share. A quick look at /var/adm/messages and I saw this problem: Jun 15 23:10:10 zed idmap[346]: [ID 702911 auth.notice] GSSAPI Error: Unspecified GSS failure. Minor code may provide more … Continue reading

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Migrating to an OpenSolaris Fileserver

After getting replacements for my failed drives, I tackled migrating data off my old Windows 2003 fileserver onto my fancy OpenSolaris ZFS fileserver. My windows server decided this was the time it was going to become corrupt too.  I was … Continue reading

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OpenSolaris on Gigabyte GA-P965-S3

Now that I have a new box to run ESXi, I’ve repurposing my GA-P965-S3 based system for OpenSolaris.  I had a lot of trouble getting this to work.  I was initially using OpenSolaris 2008.11.  I could get it installed.  Reboot, … Continue reading

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