Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:24:08 +1200 From: kit <kit@hypostasis.com> To: Mac <mac@ngo.org.uk> Cc: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, kit.mitchell@team.xtra.co.nz Subject: Re: Mounting a SMB file system Message-ID: <20000922222408.A29407@amethyst.hypostasis.com> In-Reply-To: <200009220829.JAA02329@ngo.org.uk>; from mac@ngo.org.uk on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:29:08AM %2B0100 References: <POELKPJGDHAPIPMEMHGAAEEPCDAA.charrer@alacritech.com> <200009220829.JAA02329@ngo.org.uk>
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On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:29:08AM +0100, Mac wrote: > Christopher Harrer Wrote > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to mount a file system specifying '-t smbfs' without any success. > > I've tried finding information on the SAMBA site as well as the BSD site and > > I can't seem to find any. Can anyone please provide some pointers or help? > > I can mount a "network" drive on my FreeBSD box from WinNT clients, I need > > to be able to go the other way as well. > > > > I think you'll find that 'smbfs' is only supported in Linux Kernels (and > by all account you want a really recent 2.2 kerenl if you can get it.) > > For use on other plkatforms (like FreeBSD) you could try 'smbsh' from > the Samba distribution ( ports/net/samba ) or have a look at 'Sharity > Light' (which used to be called Rumba) ( ports/net/sharity-light ) See:- > > http://www.freebsd.org/ports > > and search for 'sharity' or 'samba'. > > Try http://people.FreeBSD.org/~bp/smben.html I tried it a couple of months ago and it worked very nicely. Unfortunately I've been stuck with an other OS since and I have no need of it at home. I was using it to grap a bunch of reports from an NT box to drop on to an apache server, with a couple of hiccoughs that Boris fixed, to do with NT's behaviour. soon now the daemon will return --kit To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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