mkfifo: No such file or directory

[Kris Kennaway]

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out of date).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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