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I just recently was given a Sun Ultra Sparc 2 with 2 296MhZ Processors and 1 GB of Ram and Solaris 8 installed. I have never used Solaris but have a brief knowledge of Unix. The box is freshly setup and I am having some networking problems. I did a sys-unconfig and "re-did" the network setup. This box is plugged into a switch which is intern pluged into a router. From the Sun box I am able to ping and talk to the router (Linksys router, I can bring up the GUI Admin interface on it and the router is connected to a cable modem) and from my other computers behind the router I can connect to the Sun system. The problem is I can NOT connect to any external websites. What do I need to do to do this??
Also how can I set up this system so I can remotely connect to it from Windows machines (with a GUI interface) from within the network and I want to get this set up so it can be a network (internal only) file server.
And finally in the future I would like to set this up so I can connect to it from outside the internal network I have. And security is VERY IMPORTANT to me.
No I can not connect to outside websites via IP address. Exactly how do I set up the DNS stuff on the Solaris box. Remember connecting to a router (how do i edit the system to see that router) which then connects to a cable modem to the outside world.
Just another note. I can connect to the router fine but when I try to connect to my other desktop that is running IIS 5.0 (via ip address) it will not connect.
Yes they are both on the same lan. I do not have a domain just have a workgroup that is named HGOLDNET and the subnet mask is the default 255.255.255.0 so what could be going on here??
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