From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 07:49:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA06320 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 07:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [206.54.227.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA06315 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 07:49:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from default ([206.54.227.187]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA11115; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 04:45:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <31D54212.4CD4@nconnect.net> Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 09:47:46 -0500 From: Randy DuCharme X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Kukulies CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sharing resources with NT networks References: <199606290825.KAA22366@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > > > Greetings, > > I seem to be having a bit of difficulty finding out how to access > > shared resources on NT-servers from FBSD and make BSD's resources > > available to Windows clients and the NT Server. I have running smbd and > > nmbd as daemons and can "see" the BSD machine from the NT machine and > > Win95 machines ( when browsing ) yet I can't seem to access any shares. > > I've been through all of samba's man pages. What am I missing ? > > Do you have edited /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf to define the shares? > Do you have a guest account (pcguest?) on the FreeBSD machine? (required > for browsing). > Do you start smbd/nmbd in /etc/rc.local or via inetd? I'm doing always > in /etc/rc.local like > > /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd -I a.b.c.d -B a.b.c.255 -D -G WORKGROUP > /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd -D > > > > > Thanks > > Randy > > > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de I started nmbd and smbd in /etc/rc. I probably should move them to /etc/rc.local. I have them almost identical to the way you do above. I'll try re-creating the guest account on Monday and go from there. Thanks. Randy