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From: deborah@gallifrey.microunity.com (Deborah Gronke Bennett)
Subject: Re: FreeBSD nameserver / Samba
In-Reply-To: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk's message of 14 May 1996 10:31:24
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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 21:13:18 GMT
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In article <4n9jtc$9h@anorak.coverform.lan> brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) writes:
Gary Chrysler (tcg@mainelink.net) wrote:
: FreeBSD 2.0-RELEASE
: Samba 1.9
: WFW 3.11
: hostnames: os:
: bsdhost FreeBSD
: wfwhost WFW 3.11
: Installed Samba.. Worked great using /etc/hosts on all systems..
: Then I setup and enabled name_server on bsdhost!
: Now Samba on bsdhost fails..
: Help #2
: Enabled nfs_server
: Error: cannot open /var/db/mountdtab
: I've looked everywhere!!
: All the FAQ's that are included with FreeBSD, Web pages, man pages etc... etc..
: But I cannot find any info on mountdtab!
: Could sombody point me towards that info??
I don't know if it's documented (I read it from this newsgroup a while ago).
Just create the file. It's used to store a list of file systems that are
currently remotely mounted.
It seems to be a typo in the installation process for FreeBSD 2.1.
What should be created is /var/db/mountdtab. What is created is
/var/db/mountdbtab (note the spelling difference). Here is the
script extract I use to fix it when I post-install configure my
FreeBSD machines:
### Work around an installation bug
##
PATHNAME="/var/db"
echo "fixing "${PATHNAME}"/mountdtab"
cd ${PATHNAME}
mv mountdbtab mountdtab
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Deborah Gronke Bennett (WD5HJH) kernel and device drivers engineer
deborah@microunity.com (408)-734-8100
MicroUnity Systems Eng., 255 Caspian Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1015 USA