From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 20:08:32 2004 Return-Path: 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 C9F6216A4CE for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:08:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postbode02.zonnet.nl (postbode02.zonnet.nl [62.58.50.89]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0961243D2D for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:08:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from f.staals@zonnet.nl) Received: (qmail 2034 invoked by uid 10); 24 Dec 2004 20:08:31 -0000 Received: (vexira-qq 02026-9B3E8F49 invoked from network) 24 Dec 2004 21:08:30 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.2.2]) ([62.59.173.176]) (envelope-sender ) by postbode02.zonnet.nl (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for < >; 24 Dec 2004 20:08:30 -0000 Message-ID: <41CC8543.5060407@zonnet.nl> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 21:08:19 +0000 From: Frank Staals User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041109) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <41CC5CE6.4020402@zonnet.nl> <20041224183318.GA99768@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20041224183318.GA99768@xor.obsecurity.org> X-AntiVirus: checked by Vexira MailArmor (version: 2.0.1.16; VAE: 6.29.0.5; VDF: 6.29.0.34; host: postbode02.zonnet.nl) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: mkfifo: No such file or directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 20:08:32 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: >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 >>intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this >>http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo >>/dev/smbprint but I got this : >> >>bash-3.00# cd /dev/ >>bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint >>mkfifo: smbprint: No such file or directory >>bash-3.00# >> >>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out of date).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 > > I am running 5.3 Stable, how can I configure FreeBSD that I can use the printer on the windows pc Frank