April 28, 2010
Steps to getting a Solaris machine on the network
Solaris is Sun Microsystems’ version of UNIX. For non NIS/NIS+ Solaris machines, the things necessary to add it to an IP network are:
- The /etc/hosts file must have the hostname and IP address of the machine.
- There must be an /etc/hostname.[interface] file which contains the system hostname. The [interface] is the designation of the network interface assigned the address, for example, /etc/hostname.eri0 or /etc/hostname.dmfe0
- There must exist an /etc/netmasks file which holds the subnet mask for the machine.
- The /etc/resolv.conf file must contain the DNS server if the host relies on DNS for name to IP address resolution.
- Finally, the /etc/defaultrouter file needs to hold the IP address of the router for the subnet – or in other words the default gateway address.
