I’ve got Samba!

Sunday, 4 January 2009

I finally got around to configuring the Samba server on the FreeBSD machine. The instructions are here and they couldn't be clearer. One thing didn't work the way the book described it, not big enough to be worth investigating. That's the syntax of Samba commands. Rather than

# smbpasswd -a username

I had to do

# /usr/local/bin/smbpasswd -a username

But other than that, the thing was a breeze. Buy the book if you're thinking of building a server with FreeBSD. It's well worth the price.

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3 Responses to “I’ve got Samba!”

  1. Greg writes:
    No. 1 — January 5th, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    If you add the directory /usr/local/bin to your path, you won't have to specify it every time like that. But you figured out how to do it, so hurray! :)

  2. Yoni writes:
    No. 2 — April 22nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Question: Is it possible to connect, in Stata, to a remote server through Samba?

    Thanks!
    Yoni

  3. Gabi Huiber writes:
    No. 3 — April 22nd, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    Yes, I just checked. As a matter of fact, the details would make a good quick Stata post, so stay tuned.

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