From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 17 21: 4:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 471F937B402 for ; Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:04:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([172.16.32.103]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id AAA29353 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:09:05 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203180509.AAA29353@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: /dev/nsmb* Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:04:42 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG whenever i try to mount a samba share on freebsd-4.5 i get the following error: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device) what do i need to do to be able to mount samba shares? i have done this on linux in the past, and i remeber it being tricky if you've never done it before, but pretty simple once you figure it out. what am i doing wrong? the command i'm using is "mount_smbfs -I 172.16.33.3 //nathan@172.16.33.3/Everybody smb" where 172.16.33.3 is the server, nathan is the user name and Everybody is the name share, and smb is the local directory that i want to use as the mount point. i googled for awhile, but didn't find anything in english that was helpful nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message