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Things look quiet here. But I've been doing a lot of blogging at
dan.langille.org because I prefer WordPress now.
Not all my posts there are FreeBSD related.
I am in the midst of migrating The FreeBSD Diary over to WordPress
(and you can read about that here).
Once the migration is completed, I'll move the FreeBSD posts into the
new FreeBSD Diary website.
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Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD
3 November 1998
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The main page for Sharity-Light is http://www.obdev.at/Products/shlight.html. You
might also want to see the NFS article.
NOTE: If you want to access FreeBSD file systems from your Microsoft
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3 November
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| Today I wanted to try accessing my NT box from my FreeBSD box. So I installed
the Sharity-Light port. |
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Installing Sharity-Light
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| If you need to know how to install a port, here is a section from the FreeBSD Handbook. Here's what I did.
Note that I had CD#3 from FreeBSD 2.2.7 in my CD drive.
- mount /cdrom
- cd /usr/ports/net/sharity-light
- make install
- umount /cdrom
The Sharity-Light files are installed in /usr/local/sbin. |
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Sharing an MS File system
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This section deals with sharing an MS file system. I've done this from within
Windows NT. But the process for Windows 95/98 should be similar. In this
example, I'll be sharing c:\temp and allowing only the user Barny to
access it. The following steps are performed on the MS system.
- start Windows NT explorer
- right click on c:\temp
- click on Sharing
- click on Shared As
- click on Permissions
- click on Remove to remove Everyone's access
- click on Add
- click on Show Users
- click on the user you wish to add (in my example, I clicked on Barny)
- click on Add
- select the Type of Access you wish to provide. I choose Read.
- click on OK
- click on OK
- click on OK
This should now allow the directory to be shared. The next section describes how
to access this share from FreeBSD. |
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Accessing an MS file system
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In the previous section, we published, or created, a share. In this section, we
will access that share from our FreeBSD box. The NT box from which we issued that
share is named NT1. So we will mount that share under /nt1.
mkdir /nt1
cd /usr/local/sbin
./shlight //NT1/TEMP /nt1 -U barny -P password
where...
- is the mount point we are going to use
- //NT1/TEMP
- is the share issued on the NT1 box.
- -U Barny
- specified the user id
- -P password
- specified the password
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Accessing an MS file system
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To unmount the file system, issue the following command:
./unshlight /nt1
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Documentation
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The best online documentation I've found is the following:
ftp://ftp.obdev.at/pub/Products/Sharity-Light/Sharity-Light.README
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Limitations
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| You will find that dates and times are not correct on the files from NT4 file systems.
For more information, please refer to the documentation mentioned in the previous
section. |
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