Setup the file based on instructions here http://www.itworld.com/Comp/3380/nls_unixntp3041028/

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The top 50 lines or so of this prototype file are comments that provide information on the syntax of the operative lines. The most important line of this file is the server line. The initial server line will look like this:

server 127.127.XType.0 prefer

If you want to set up NTP for synchronization purposes only and are unconcerned with whether or not the system clocks are accurate with respect to the atomic clocks, you can configure this line to look like this:

server 127.127.1.0 prefer

The third octet in this IP address, the “1″, indicates that you are electing to use a reference clock driver of type “undisciplined local clock”. This simply means your system clock. This setting is intended for isolated networks where no external source of synchronization is available. The 127.127.1.0 IP address is a type of loopback (as are all IP addresses in the 127.127.x.x range), indicating that this NTP server will use its own clock as a time reference and will make no requests to external time sources. NTP clients using this server for time information should use the multicastclient keyword as shown below. The 127.127.1.0 loopback can also be used on networks where real time is unimportant, but synchronization is critical.

multicastclient 224.0.1.1

If you want your NTP server to obtain time updates from external servers, add server lines like these (the same as those shown earlier in the column):

server 129.6.15.28 prefer
server 216.200.93.8
server 64.236.96.53
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Check what dependencies xntp relies on:
svcs -l svc:/network/ntp:default

If all dependencies exist then:
svcadm enable svc:/network/ntp
svcadm refresh svc:/network/ntp
svcadm restart svc:/network/ntp

This should start xntpd.

Check to see if the ntp daemon is running:
svcs | grep ntp

should give something like:
online Nov_10 svc:/network/ntp:default

blastwave.org to the rescue: http://www.blastwave.org/docs/step-152.html

To get the networking setup to be able to access the internet I needed to edit /etc/defaultrouter and put my router’s IP in there. This file was already correct from when I first setup Solaris.

I had to create the file /etc/inet/resolv.conf which is setup just like the Linux /etc/resolv.conf. Just add nameservers to it, one on each line:
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver 22.33.44.55

chown the resolv.conf file with ‘chown root:sys /etc/inet/resolv.conf’

Then make a symlink from /etc/inet/resolv.conf to /etc/resolv.conf with: ‘ln -s /etc/inet/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf’

Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf and add “dns” to the “hosts” line.

Make sure /etc/inet/hosts and /etc/inet/ipnodes are setup correctly. Hosts should have the loopback and your network IP with your hostname and ‘loghost’ on that line:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.110 sunfire loghost

ipnodes is very similar:
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.110 sunfire loghost

And thats it. Didn’t have to restart networking or reboot the machine or anything. A simple ‘ping -s google.com 56 10′ confirmed that the machine could resolve an IP and hit google.

I set up C shell on the Sun server. Much nicer than Bourne. It has history and a nice looking prompt and everything. Can even use the arrow keys.
As a non root user to change your shell:
passwd -e

It will prompt you for your new shell, you want /bin/tcsh

In your home directory, make/modify ‘.login’ so it contains:
#—–start of file
stty erase ^H
#—–end of file

make/modify ‘.cshrc’ so it contains:
#—–start of file
set autolist
set notify
set correct=cmd
set prompt=”[%n@%m][%c]$ ”
set savehist=7000
setenv PAGER ‘less -s’[/code]
#-----end of file

As root you want to keep the Bourne shell, but if you want, just use it once you are logged in by typing /bin/tcsh at the command prompt.

I copied the .login and .cshrc files to root's home and changed the '$' in the prompt to a '#'

I also copied both of those files to /etc/skel so they can be put in all new users home folders and will be useful if I set their default shell (or they set it) to C shell.