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Solaris 10 internet access on VMware
Hi, I have Solaris 10 running in VMware on a winxp box so I can learn unix. I can 'ping' all the boxes on our network and yahoo.com (but only if I use the IP address I get back from pinging from an xp box). The error message from the terminal window is unknown host and from a browser www.sun.com could not be found. This is obviously a resolution issue but I don't think it's an xp thing as I installed win2k on VMware and I can get internet access with that.
Oddly enough, I can ping from an xp box to any of our windows boxes by both name and IP and get a reply, but I can only succesfully ping my virtual Solaris box by IP plus I can't ping any ms boxes by name - any ideas? 
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Most likely you didn't set up DNS on the Virtual machine.
You will need to add dns to the hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf and add /etc/resolv.conf with "nameserver <ip address of your dns server>" as contents. /etc/nsswitch.conf Code:
... hosts: files dns ... Code:
... nameserver 192.168.1.3 ...
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Thanks reborg, that worked although I had to make my own resolv.conf file. is this usual?
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