Killing some time in the office.. so I thought I’d download and try out Build 39 in a vmware container.

I’ve been meaning to download it for a while …but (fill in excuse here). Last time I took Open Solaris for a spin was build 27 or 28 and on my primary laptop. It was ok, just seemed to be lacking the stability I had with GA. Since then I’ve been using 1/06 on most everything but my desktop at the office. There I’m giving a Beta of 6/06 a spin.

So far I haven’t had much exposure to Veritas . ..(i’m just waiting for one of our systems using Veritas to blow up while I’m on call … )

I haven’t had any Test systems to screw around on and learn with .. . .and learning on a production box is not exactly the way I want to go about it.

At least now I can download it for free and mess around with some older spare hardware at work or home.
Note, Cuddletech has some nice documentation on Veritas i’m using to ramp up. Thank you Ben!

I have been going back and forth about setting up a small vpn server at home. No real reason, just for a project. However, I find it hard to invest the time or effort when it’s basically already implemented for me.

I’ve been using tunnels for a while to access a windows desktop via RDP, proxy to other house, configure my router via the web GUI, and even to nfs mount my mp3s.
Setup takes all of 3 seconds provided you have an exposed ssh server in your firewall.

On the server side edit your sshd_config file to enable TCP fowarding:

(sshd_config)

# Port forwarding
AllowTcpForwarding yes

This Link will explain the how to configure putty for Port Fowarding

This Link will explain how to use the ssh CLI.