Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 11:33:18 -0500 From: Nathan Mace <nmace85@yahoo.com> To: "Jaideep Bhatia" <jaideep.bhatia@wipro.com>, "'Joe Marcus Clarke'" <marcus@marcuscom.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /dev/nsmb* Message-ID: <200203181637.LAA14376@uce55.uchaswv.edu> In-Reply-To: <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep> References: <000c01c1ce44$7fe61e50$1250a8c0@Jaideep>
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On Monday 18 March 2002 01:16 am, Jaideep Bhatia wrote: > You don't have to create any nsb* device. SMB support should be compiled > in the kernel. Install the samba port. Edit smb.conf file properly and > reboot the machine. > Hope this should solve your problem. > Regards, > Jaideep well I AM running 4.5, uname says so ;) also, i've been running samba on this machine for a long time, though this is the 1st time i tried to mount a smb share. i think i know what the problem is, and i guess i deserve it. you guys are gonna freak out about this. when i upgraded from 4.4 to 4.5 i did not run mergemaster or remakes the devices. why?! you might ask. well the 1st time i did it when i was just starting to use freebsd, it mergemaster hosed my /etc directroy beyond repair. i had made a backup of it, but i couldn't even get into single user mode to restore it. so i had to format the drive. i'm entirely sure that part of my problem is in the fact that i havn't remade all of my devices since i upgraded to 4.5. what do i need to do? "sh MAKEDEV all"??? also, yes i made sure that i was not using the bash seel to try and make the device. can someone help me? nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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