[indiana-discuss] Any suggestions to our customer?

[michael schuster]

Li Ye wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Following is an email from our customer. Would you please give some
> advise to him?
> 
> Thanks,
> Li Ye
> 
> ==========================================================
> Hi Li Ye,
> 
> I tried OpenSolaris 2008.05. It looks solid.

maybe trying 2008.11 would help.

> 
> I ran into some issues:
> 1) no time server appear for synchronizing time with NLP.

is that "NTP"? if so, you need to elaborate a little what they tried and 
what they saw ...

> 2) Networking to Windows Servers doesn't show any servers.
> I thought this might be a networking issue. I'm using DHCP with a cable
> modem. I can retrieve packages with Package Manager, get email with
> Thunderbird, and browse the web.

again: what did they do, what did they see?

> 5) There doesn't appear to be a package for the Motif run-time library.
> This package appears necessary for installing Oracle.

IINM, Motif isn't delivered with OpenSolaris; I seem to recall a similar 
thread recently that offered a solution or at least workaround - did you 
search the email archives on opensolaris.org?

HTH
Michael
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