From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 4 11:22:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA21027 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:22:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA21022 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 11:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA06380; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:15:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603041915.MAA06380@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: I'd like Samba To: geoff@ginsu.com (Geoff Wells) Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 12:15:55 -0700 (MST) Cc: monboso@masternet.it, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Geoff Wells" at Mar 3, 96 10:39:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > I agree. I've been having problems as well and the documentation doesn't > seem to be up to par. Although I don't think this is the place for the > discussion (but I don't know where the right place is either ;). > > I've been trying to get my system working as well ( WFW 3.11 client with > FreeBSD 2.1 server) I can mount any publicly available drive but > something like /home just doesn't work. I can't seem to get the password > authentication working. Something I did notice is that public drives get > mounted as noboby ( ie GID, UID = 65535, 65535 ). This might explain why > I can never get the right password. > > Another thing I can't get right is the name service. I just can't seem > to manage a browsable network. All I get it "Network unavailable". :( > > If this discussion belongs in another group please tell me the list. If > you have any idea what is going on, even better. This discussion is probably better suited to the Samba mailing list. Samba could use a good "administrative walk-through" program for configuration or reconfiguration of Samba. Personally, I'd prefer a flat top-down grammar, but it isn't quite suitable for the way they handle their config files. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.