Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:25:45 -0400 (EDT) From: lowell@world.std.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/17780: FAQ entry for SMB share mounting Message-ID: <200004040225.WAA22056@be-well.ilk.org>
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>Number: 17780
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: if they ask for smbmount, they want sharity light
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Apr 3 19:30:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Lowell Gilbert
>Release: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
latest FAQ
>Description:
Linux users searching for "smbmount" should find something.
What they want is the sharity-light port.
It might be nice if we explained how to search the ports, but we can't
do that *everywhere* it might be relevant...
>How-To-Repeat:
n/a
>Fix:
[515] (lowellg) faq> diff -c book.sgml.ORIG book.sgml
*** book.sgml.ORIG Mon Apr 3 21:49:37 2000
--- book.sgml Mon Apr 3 22:17:34 2000
***************
*** 5025,5030 ****
--- 5025,5040 ----
</answer>
</qandaentry>
+ <qandaentry>
+ <question><para>How do I mount a disk from a Windows machine that's on my
+ network, like smbmount in Linux?</para>
+ </question>
+ <answer>
+ <para>Use the <ulink
+ url="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=%5Esharity-light-&stype=name">sharity light</ulink> package in the ports collection.</para>
+ </answer>
+ </qandaentry>
+
</qandaset>
</chapter>
>Release-Note:
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