Re:whilst everyone is bashing Sun..... (Score 1)

I think you were installing the Solaris Express bits, not the general availability release which happened late yesterday. In the GA release, gcc 3.4.3 is bundled with the main distro and available as /usr/sfw/bin/gcc (along with a bunch of other things like ant, mysql, bison,flex, etc) As far as sshd goes, it was probably installed, but the service was not enabled. Use svcadm enable ssh to get it to work (although in the GA release, it is enabled by default) For home directories, /home is typically used for automounted home directories in Solaris, you probably wanted to create a physical home dir on /export/home on a machine, and then have it automounted onto /home everywhere.