Use ifconfig (similar to Linux), but if it’s not in your user’s path:
/usr/sbin/ifconfig -a
Changing the desktop when VNC’ing into Solaris 10
By default if you VNC into Solaris 10 you get a basic desktop using TWM:
To Change to CDE, comment out the last line (twm&) in ~/.vnc/xstartup and add:
#twm &
/usr/dt/bin/dtsession &
to start the Java Desktop, instead of ‘dtsession’, add ‘gnome-session’:
#twm &
#/usr/dt/bin/dtsession &
/usr/dt/bin/gnome-session &
If you get this error:
vncserver: couldn't find "xauth" on your PATH.
… edit your ~/.vnc/xstartup and update your PATH to include the following:
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/openwin/bin
Installing packages from OpenCSW on Solaris 10
From here:
pkgadd -d http://get.opencsw.org/now
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -U
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -a vim
/opt/csw/bin/pkgutil -y -i vim
ssh to solaris 10 error: “no matching key exchange method found”
I first ran into this error after installing Solaris 10 on a Sun Ultra 60 that I had a while back, but I’ve recently ran into it again installing Solaris 10 on Proxmox:
Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.95 port 22: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: gss-group1-sha1-toWM5Slw5Ew8Mqkay+al2g==,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
The solution to configure my Mac to be able to use older key algorithms was a combination from here and answers on this post.
I edited my ~/.ssh/config and added a Host entry for the ip of my Solaris 10 instance, adding:
Host 192.168.1.95
HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-rsa
KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1
And now I can just ssh in as normal (no need for any additional params as shown in the first post, as the required options are configured in my .ssh/config.