Tag Archives: solaris

smbsrv: [ID 421734 kern.notice] NOTICE: [domain\user]: shared share not found

Posted on 2011/06/04 by wolf

I was doing some performance testing of my migrated Solaris 11 share from windows and it would never finish, always terminating at some point with windows popping up a dialog that said specified network share is no longer available.  On the … Continue reading →

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Home Lab Server and Storage Consolidation using ESXi 4.1 and Solaris 11

Posted on 2011/05/30 by wolf

It’s been too long since my last post, so without further ado… Recently I was doing some performance testing of my storage server.  Last I wrote about it, I was using OpenSolaris, but I’ve since moved on to Solaris 11 … Continue reading →

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Virtual Dedupe Requires Workaround: OpenSolaris build 128a Kernel Panics on Boot in VMWare

Posted on 2009/12/04 by wolf

I am super excited you can now download a compiled version of OpenSolaris that includes the new ZFS Dedupe support!  However when I went to try installing build 128a from GENUNIX, I found it kernel panic’d on both VMWare Workstation … Continue reading →

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Suddenly can’t login to OpenSolaris 2009.06 CIFS share

Posted on 2009/06/16 by wolf

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

Posted on 2009/06/14 by wolf

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

Posted on 2009/06/07 by wolf

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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VMWare ESXi: GA-P965-S3 and Supermicro AS-1021M-T2+B

Posted on 2009/05/31 by wolf

I have now built a couple ESXi machines at home and it can be tough finding hardware that you know is going to work with ESXi.  I thought I would contribute a couple working configurations. Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P965-S3 rev 1.0 … Continue reading →

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