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Jenkins (formerly known as Hudson) is a continuous integration tool. Installing Jenkins as a daemon service on Solaris 11 is pretty simple. Below are the steps I took to get it up and running using SMF in Solaris 11. SMF or Service Management Facility is the default way to manage...

Solaris 11 comes with the CIFS/SMB server installed so you do not need to download or install any additional packages. You simply need to enable the SMB server, configure the PAM module to allow authentication of CIFS users, and regenerate passwords for users. $ svcadm enable -rs smb/server svcadm: svc:/milestone/network...

When a device has a name like /dev/dsk/c7t0d0 how do you know what physical hard disk this maps to in your Solaris system? Locating a physical hard disk by its device name can be achieved by having Solaris list the device serial numbers and then looking at the labels on...

What do you do when you power on your PC all you hear is a click, click, click coming from the hard disk and it never boots? Unless you have a backup it's game over for any data on that disk; you just lost your pictures, music, movies, emails, and...

This page details my budget build of a 4TB NAS based on Solaris and ZFS. Bill of Materials Price Motherboard: BIOSTAR TA890GXB $95 Memory: PNY Optima 4GB DDR3 1333MHz $39 Power Supply: Ultra 750W (already owned) $70 Optical Drive: LG GH22NS50AUAU DVD Writer - DVD+R 22x, DVD+RW 8X, DVD-RW 6x,...