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Date:      Sat, 29 Jun 1996 09:47:46 -0500
From:      Randy DuCharme <randyd@nconnect.net>
To:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sharing resources with NT networks
Message-ID:  <31D54212.4CD4@nconnect.net>
References:  <199606290825.KAA22366@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>

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Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >     I seem to be having a bit of difficulty finding out how to access
> > shared resources on NT-servers from FBSD and make BSD's resources
> > available to Windows clients and the NT Server.  I have running smbd and
> > nmbd as daemons and can "see" the BSD machine from the NT machine and
> > Win95 machines ( when browsing ) yet I can't seem to access any shares.
> > I've been through all of samba's man pages.  What am I missing ?
> 
> Do you have edited /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf to define the shares?
> Do you have a guest account (pcguest?) on the FreeBSD machine? (required
> for browsing).
> Do you start smbd/nmbd in /etc/rc.local or via inetd? I'm doing always
> in /etc/rc.local like
> 
> /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -I a.b.c.d -B a.b.c.255  -D -G WORKGROUP
> /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D
> 
> >
> > Thanks
> > Randy
> >
> 
> --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de

I started nmbd and smbd in /etc/rc.  I probably should move them to 
/etc/rc.local.  I have them almost identical to the way you do above.  
I'll try re-creating the guest account on Monday and go from there.  
Thanks.

Randy



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