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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Frank Staals <f.staals@zonnet.nl>
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On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +0000, Frank Staals wrote:
> I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my=20
> intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this=20
> http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo=
=20
> /dev/smbprint but I got this :
>=20
> bash-3.00# cd /dev/
> bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint
> mkfifo: smbprint: No such file or directory
> bash-3.00#
>=20
> Why can't I make an extra fifo ?

You forgot to mention what version of FreeBSD you're running; if it's
5.x, you can't create random files in /dev because it's not a
general-purpose filesystem (i.e. the documentation you're reading is
out of date).

Kris

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