Thanks, that works! i had the wrong numbers (and had to change them in 
MAKEDEV also).
My startup installation was 1.6.2 a month ago, that could explain why 
the major numbers were different.

Renaud.

Mike M. Volokhov wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2004 08:50:31 +0000
> Renaud M?trich <renaud.metrich@laposte.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>i'm using the latest current kernel and don't manage to mount a samba FS 
>>from another machine. I get the following error even if i left support 
>>for CIFS (+nsmd) in the kernel (it is a generic kernel):
>>
>>ptitchat# mount -t smbfs //oxo/temp /mnt/tmp
>>Password:
>>mount_smbfs: can't get handle to requester (no /dev/nsmb* device available)
>>
>>What is strange is that the character devices exist:
>>ptitchat# ls -l /dev/nsm*
>>crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   0, 88 May 27 18:11 /dev/nsmb
>>crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  88,  0 May 27 18:11 /dev/nsmb0
>>crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  88,  1 May 27 18:11 /dev/nsmb1
>>crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  88,  2 May 27 18:11 /dev/nsmb2
>>crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  88,  3 May 27 18:11 /dev/nsmb3
> 
> 
> Possible you should rebuilt /dev/nsmb* files with "cd /dev && ./MAKEDEV
> nsmb"? For my 2.0C:
> 
> mishka@nostromo:1> ls -l /dev/nsmb*
> crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   98,   0 Nov 24  2003 /dev/nsmb0
> crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   98,   1 Nov 24  2003 /dev/nsmb1
> crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   98,   2 Nov 24  2003 /dev/nsmb2
> crw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   98,   3 Nov 24  2003 /dev/nsmb3
> 
> --
> Mishka.