On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 09:08:19PM +0000, Frank Staals wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +0000, Frank Staals wrote: > > > > > >>I want to use my printer which is on a windoze computer to use on my > >>intire network ( most FreeBSD computers ) so I read this > >>http://www.freebsddiary.org/samba.php . As it is explained I did: mkfifo > >>/dev/smbprint but I got this : > >> > >>bash-3.00# cd /dev/ > >>bash-3.00# mkfifo smbprint > >>mkfifo: smbprint: No such file or directory > >>bash-3.00# > >> > >>Why can't I make an extra fifo ? > >> > >> > > > >You forgot to mention what version of FreeBSD you're running; if it's > >5.x, you can't create random files in /dev because it's not a > >general-purpose filesystem (i.e. the documentation you're reading is > >out of date). > > > >Kris > > > > > I am running 5.3 Stable, how can I configure FreeBSD that I can use the > printer on the windows pc
I don't know, you should try to read the samba documentation or ask for help in a samba forum. Kris
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