From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 17:16:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A423516A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:16:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postbode02.zonnet.nl (postbode02.zonnet.nl [62.58.50.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63D343D1F for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:16:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.staals@zonnet.nl) Received: (qmail 17713 invoked by uid 10); 24 Dec 2004 17:16:18 -0000 Received: (vexira-qq 17697-3F426873 invoked from network) 24 Dec 2004 18:16:17 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.2]) ([62.59.173.176]) (envelope-sender ) by postbode02.zonnet.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 24 Dec 2004 17:16:17 -0000 Message-ID: <41CC5CE6.4020402@zonnet.nl> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:16:06 +0000 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041109) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.29.0.5; VDF: 6.29.0.34; host: postbode02.zonnet.nl) Subject: mkfifo: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:16:20 -0000 I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo /dev/smbprint but I got this : bash-3.00# cd /dev/ bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint mkfifo: smbprint: No such file or directory bash-3.00# Why can't I make an extra fifo ? Frank Staals