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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:36:47 -0500
From:      "Bara Zani" <bara_zani@yahoo.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /dev/nsmb*
Message-ID:  <047e01c1ce92$bacdef90$fd6e34c6@moti>
References:  <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep>

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Did you by anychance run a cvsup upgraded but did not run mergemaster ?
i had the same problems
mergemaster solved them .

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaideep Bhatia" <jaideep.bhatia@wipro.com>
To: "'Joe Marcus Clarke'" <marcus@marcuscom.com>; "'Nathan Mace'"
<nmace85@yahoo.com>
Cc: "'Walter Hop'" <walter@binity.com>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 1:16 AM
Subject: RE: /dev/nsmb*


> You don't have to create any nsb* device. SMB support should be compiled
> in the kernel. Install the samba port. Edit smb.conf file properly and
> reboot the machine.
> Hope this should solve your problem.
> Regards,
> Jaideep
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Marcus
> Clarke
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:46 AM
> To: Nathan Mace
> Cc: Walter Hop; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: /dev/nsmb*
>
>
> On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 00:39, Nathan Mace wrote:
> > On Monday 18 March 2002 12:08 am, Walter Hop wrote:
> > > [in reply to Nathan Mace, Monday 18 March 2002 06:04]
> > >
> > > > 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)
> > >
> > > Have you tried making the nsmb0 device by:
> > >
> > >   % cd /dev
> > >   % sh ./MAKEDEV nsmb0
> >
> > i get a "nsmb0 - no such name"
>
> Are you sure this is FreeBSD 4.5?  The nsmb* device is listed in
> MAKEDEV, and works for me.  From /dev/MAKEDEV:
>
> nsmb*)
>     unit=`expr $i : 'nsmb\(.*\)'`
>     mknod nsmb$unit c 144 $unit
>     ;;
>
>
> If you're sure you have the right MAKEDEV script, make sure you're not
> trying to run it with bash.  The sh you should be using is the Bourne
> shell that shipped with FreeBSD.
>
> I have noticed that when running in a SMP configuration, using the smbfs
> kernel modules doesn't work.  You have to hardcode the SMB stuff into
> the kernel.  However, on single CPU configs, what you're doing works.
>
> Joe
>
> >
> > nathan
> >
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> >
>
>
>


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