Supported Operating Systems

Each operating system has various levels of support with AutoClient 2.1. The following sections describe the support available with each operating system.

Solaris 2.4 Systems

Before installing the Solstice AutoClient 2.1 software on a system running the Solaris 2.3 or Solaris 2.4 release, verify that the NFS mountd process is active with the following command.

# ps -ef | grep mountd

If the mountd process is not displayed in the output, start it by using this command.

# /usr/lib/nfs/mountd

Ensuring that the mountd process is running will prevent the installation script from hanging.

Solaris 2.3 End-of-Support

Support for Solaris 2.3 will be dropped from the next release of AdminSuite and AutoClient. Users running AdminSuite or AutoClient on systems running Solaris 2.3 should plan on upgrading the system to a new release during this transition period.

4.x Client Support

If you plan on having 4.x clients and your server is running a version of Solaris later than 2.5.1, you will need to manually install the SUNWhinst package that is now included on the Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 CD-ROM.