I can't seem to be able to mount any windows shares all I get is this error smbfs: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device) a quick search on google leads me to believe it is broken, can anyone help me get this fixed?
Elijah Savage III wrote:> > I can't seem to be able to mount any windows shares all I get is this > error > > > > smbfs: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device) > > > > a quick search on google leads me to believe it is broken, can anyone > help me get this fixed?Ask on a FreeBSD list. The FreeBSD CIFS/SMB client is not associated with Samba (as opposed to the Linux smbfs which uses a Samba based mount helper). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
Thank you for the info but I have fixed it I just installed sharity-light real nice replacement for smbfs -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Bartlett [mailto:abartlet@samba.org] Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 9:08 PM To: Elijah Savage III Cc: samba@samba.org; samba@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: [Samba] mount_smbfs on freebsd 4.6 is it browken? Elijah Savage III wrote:> > I can't seem to be able to mount any windows shares all I get is this > error > > > > smbfs: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device) > > > > a quick search on google leads me to believe it is broken, can anyone > help me get this fixed?Ask on a FreeBSD list. The FreeBSD CIFS/SMB client is not associated with Samba (as opposed to the Linux smbfs which uses a Samba based mount helper). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
On Saturday 13 July 2002 21:04, you wrote:> I can't seem to be able to mount any windows shares all I get is this > error > > > > smbfs: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device)^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You don't have dev entries for /dev/nsmb*, have you run mergemaster and then cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV all (or just cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV nsmb0 for the specific device) -james