From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 8:34: 6 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 2986637B422 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 08:33:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([172.16.32.103]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA14376; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:37:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203181637.LAA14376@uce55.uchaswv.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nathan Mace To: "Jaideep Bhatia" , "'Joe Marcus Clarke'" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/nsmb* Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:18 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep> In-Reply-To: <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep> 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 On Monday 18 March 2002 01:16 am, Jaideep Bhatia wrote: > 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 well I AM running 4.5, uname says so ;) also, i've been running samba on this machine for a long time, though this is the 1st time i tried to mount a smb share. i think i know what the problem is, and i guess i deserve it. you guys are gonna freak out about this. when i upgraded from 4.4 to 4.5 i did not run mergemaster or remakes the devices. why?! you might ask. well the 1st time i did it when i was just starting to use freebsd, it mergemaster hosed my /etc directroy beyond repair. i had made a backup of it, but i couldn't even get into single user mode to restore it. so i had to format the drive. i'm entirely sure that part of my problem is in the fact that i havn't remade all of my devices since i upgraded to 4.5. what do i need to do? "sh MAKEDEV all"??? also, yes i made sure that i was not using the bash seel to try and make the device. can someone help me? nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message