mkfifo: No such file or directory

[Frank Staals]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 06:16:06PM +0000, Frank Staals wrote:
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>>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 ?
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>>
>
>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out of date).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
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I am running 5.3 Stable, how can I configure FreeBSD that I can use the 
printer on the windows pc

Frank