OS for Sun Blade 100 Server

cuschu · 06-09-2006, 04:55 PM

I have a Sun Blade 100 and I would like to set it up as a server for my Windows clients. I would like to use it to store all my movies and other multimedia files, and also be able to create a folder, map it to a windows computer and install apps, via the remote drive. However, I am unsure what OS to use for this. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Curtis Schulz

cs-cam · 06-11-2006, 03:09 AM

Solaris Express comes to mind first. However there are a ton of distros that come with SPARC ports, same with the BSDs and if your distro of choice doesn't come with a SPARC version, I'm sure the distro developers would appreciate any effort you made to port it to that arch

Blinker_Fluid · 06-11-2006, 10:26 PM

Sun server, Question in the Solaris forum, hmmm I'd probably go with Solaris 10.

abrooks29 · 06-12-2006, 05:02 AM

I just basically did the same thing last week... bought a SunBlade 100 off of ebay. I loaded up Solaris 10.

spyghost · 06-16-2006, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by cuschu

I have a Sun Blade 100 and I would like to set it up as a server for my Windows clients. I would like to use it to store all my movies and other multimedia files, and also be able to create a folder, map it to a windows computer and install apps, via the remote drive. However, I am unsure what OS to use for this. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Curtis Schulz

for that particular function alone, any solaris will do. for solaris 8 and below, you still need to install lets say samba for mapping with windows, but for solaris 9 and up, samba goes with it, so you just have to configure your samba for windows mapping