From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 6 21:32:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69CF01065672 for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnatola@familycareintl.org) Received: from mail.familycareintl.org (static-64-61-120-78.isp.broadviewnet.net [64.61.120.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D238FC2C for ; Thu, 6 May 2010 21:32:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI ([::1]) by FCIEXCHANGE1.FCI ([::1]) with mapi; Thu, 6 May 2010 17:32:16 -0400 From: Jean-Paul Natola To: 'Tim Daneliuk' , FreeBSD Mailing List Thread-Topic: Accessing file from windows or to windows- Thread-Index: AQHK7WHR1ycXb3D9bEivi9s5QtHVWJJFLioA//++FqA= Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 21:32:15 +0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <4BE33444.3030104@tundraware.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: Subject: RE: Accessing file from windows or to windows- X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 May 2010 21:32:17 -0000 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@f= reebsd.org] On Behalf Of Tim Daneliuk Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:28 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows- On 5/6/2010 4:19 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Well my book (absolute BSD) yes its old, says: > "writing to an NTFS partition may corrupt the partition" - I'm guessing t= his is not the case anymore > and to answer your question;=20 >=20 > 1. Its 2 separate machines=20 > 2. As a security standard I have disabled flash drives in the office=20 > 3. It will be a monthly taks > 4. No web access on the bsd box >=20 > Forgot the main one, when I tried to mount I get the error > mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr =3D Authentication error This means Windows is looking for login credentials before it will allow you to access the share. Suppose you are user 'Jean' on your Windows machine,"WINDOZE" and you use a password of "foo". You want to get to the Windows share called "MYSHARE" and mount it locally on your FBSD box on /mnt. Then the command is: mount_smbfs //JEAN@WINDOZE/MYSHARE /mnt You'll get prompted for a password and, when you enter it, the mount will be established. Same error: milter# mount_smbfs //jnatola@fcisql01/DATA /mnt Password: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr =3D Authentication error milter#