From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 16:25:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0710D37B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:25:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E96AC43EA9 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 16:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id gAU0Plp99522; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:25:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Received: from 10.0.1.9 (mts-102.wallnet.com [208.225.162.34]) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id gAU0Pig99514; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:25:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from timothyk@wallnet.com) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Tim Kellers To: Jason Hunt , Chris Brotherton Subject: Re: Accessing Windows Share Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 19:25:22 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20021129173214.K86164-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20021129173214.K86164-100000@lethargic.dyndns.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200211291925.22763.timothyk@wallnet.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 If you want to mount Windows shares without Samba, though, you need SMBFS= and=20 a comman like: mount_smbfs -W [Workgroup or Domain] -I [IP address of Windows server]=20 //windowsuser@netbiosname/sharename /FreeBSD mount point This prompts you for a password. The docs say that a -N arguement may contain the password on the command = (or=20 script) line, but I've never gotten that to work. Tim Kellers On Friday 29 November 2002 05:36 pm, Jason Hunt wrote: > On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Chris Brotherton wrote: > > I want to mount a windows share on my FreeBSD box (alpha 500au runnin= g > > 4.7). I added the following options to my kernel configuration file: > > > > options NETSMB > > options NETSMBCRYPTO > > options LIBMCHAIN > > options LIBICONV > > options SMBFS > > > > When I compile my kernel, I get the following error: > > > > unknown option "SMBFS" > > > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? > > I'm not sure about why "options SMBFS" doesn't work, but I've never had= to > add anything to my kernel in order to make Samba work. I just had to > install Samba itself and was able to mount SMB shares with no problems. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message