From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 29 14:53:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rush.telenordia.se (mail.telenordia.se [194.213.64.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8243937BCB5 for ; Tue, 29 Feb 2000 14:53:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@minmail.net) Received: (qmail 29760 invoked from network); 29 Feb 2000 23:36:06 +0100 Received: from bb-k33274.ls.telenordia.se (HELO pcmarhem) (195.100.68.10) by mail.telenordia.se with SMTP; 29 Feb 2000 23:36:06 +0100 Reply-To: From: "Mark Rowlands" To: "'Harry Woodward-Clarke'" Cc: Subject: RE: File sharing with 2 computers on a LAN... Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:37:19 +0100 Message-ID: <000501bf8305$89e00ba0$0200a8c0@pcmarhem> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <38BB58C5.9FC67612@S1.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG is the ip address of the windows box in /etc/hosts? eg : 192.168.0.2 mywindowsbox can you ping the windows box? by ip, by name? have you made a mount point for the share eg: mkdir /mp3 then shlight //yourboxname/yoursharename /yourmountpoint -U validusernameonwindowsbox -W workgroupnameofwindowsbox please note the above is all one line >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Harry >Woodward-Clarke >Sent: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 6:28 AM >To: Digital C. >Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: File sharing with 2 computers on a LAN... > > > >> >> Still won't work! >> >> i did shlight //mybox/mp3 /mp3 -n >> >> still gettin the SAME error >> >> :( > >Okilly-dokilly... > >what is the result of > ># smbclient //mybox/mp3 -U > >this should give you a "smb: \> " prompt, where you can do things like >'ls' to list the files there. You may get an error about not able to >find smb.conf, but for this purpose, you can ignore that for now. > >If the above works, then there is something amis with your >configuration >of sharity light (my guess). What it is, I don't really know off hand. >Unfortuantely, it's the end of my dy, so I'm off home now. > >If the above _doesn't_ work, then it would appear that your bsd box >can't see the windoze box, and thus you need to re-check the basic >network connectivity. > >hth, > >Haxxa > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message