Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:41:54 +0100 From: Stefano Riva <sriva@alice.it> To: Mark Kobussen <skjellyfetti@iname.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LAN - FBSD, W95, DOS.... Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19990122114154.00a6a800@relay.alice.it> In-Reply-To: <36A7B4C3.46359205@iname.com>
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At 17.14 21/01/99 -0600, you wrote: >fennario.net). Next thing: I've tried connecting to the services on my >FBSD box from the W95 machine, and keep getting password failures - >although I defined the system as public. So, I went ahead and added the >Registry Key that makes Windows use plain text passwords. Didn't help. >Then, I redid the entire smb.conf file, so now it tries to connect to >IPC$ (Could this be the problem?) and I get a password failure. I have Are you sure that the public services in your smb.conf are guest OK? If yes, post the smb.conf section with definitions of services. >a feeling that this resource can't be directly accessed. Also, I have >no idea how to mount the W95 drive from my FBSD box. There's something in the ports... The name's Sharity Light. I never tried it, but it should do exactly what you want. >I have a 486DX\33 sitting around with a lot of old but important files >on it. Would it be possible for me to install FBSD on a small portion >of the root drive, allowing it to share the MS-DOS file system OVER the >LAN? I have no idea if this is possible, but I'm sure I will shortly. >=) You can easily mount FAT volumes on FreeBSD and share them with NFS, Samba, etc. Read the mount man page. Mount something "permanently" by editing /etc/fstab. Once the filesystem is mounted, treat it just like a FreeBSD FS (place it in /etc/exports for NFS, place it in your smb.conf for Samba, etc.). --- Stefano Riva Software Engineer - Systems Administrator Informazioni Editoriali I.E. Srl Phone +39-027528400, Fax +39-027528451 Email sriva@alice.it To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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