A few Questions about FreeBsd...

Can anybody help me to configure my bsd to use another X system than XFree86 such as gnome or Kde please?

I also want to activate samba but as I try to run the commands they show in the BSD handbook it says not a command.

How can I check that smb is installed? And how can I get it running? Doe smb has a graphical interface that can be accessed by windows (browser) such as IpCop?

I am really a Newbie so please be patient with me,

Thanks guys

>> Can anybody help me to configure my bsd to use another X system than XFree86 such as gnome or Kde please?
The correct term for this is "Window manager" rather than "X system". The Window manager (such as KDE, gnome, blackbox etc.) runs on top of X. I'm guessing that you're seeing twm, which is usually the default window manager. To change the window manager for your account, all you need to do is edit .xinitrc (or create the file, if it doesn't already exist) in your home directory and add a command to start the window manager.


>> I also want to activate samba but as I try to run the commands they show in the BSD handbook it says not a command.
Perhaps you haven't installed it yet. Try installing it with /stand/sysinstall or from packages/ports. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...book/ports.html for more details.

>> How can I check that smb is installed?
See section 4.4.2 in the above link.

>> And how can I get it running?
See the handbook for basic instructions and also www.samba.org for more details
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...work-samba.html

>> Does smb has a graphical interface that can be accessed by windows (browser) such as IpCop?
Not sure what you mean by this? You can use Windows Explorer to connect to a directory tree that is exported by samba. Is this what you're looking for?

Thanks for the help but the command echo "exec startkde" > ~/.xinitrc is not accepted, the same for gnome. It gives an error with xinitrc.

The other stuff works and yes I was looking for a directory tree that is exported by samba but that doesn't work yet. But i'm still trying to implement the commands that are on the website you showed me.

Actually I was wondering if it was possible to manage the samba server itself by an internetbrowser (web image monitor or something like that).

>> It gives an error with xinitrc.
Post your error message(s) here.

hi,
I installed everything all over again and when the complete installation was done I typed the following commands.

First echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
and then startx but this says very fast after Xserver is shutting down.

Then I tried
echo "#!/bin/sh" > ~/.xsession
echo "/usr/X11R6/bin/gnome-session" >> ~/.xsession
chmod +x ~/.xsession
startx

and after this the screen becomes black and I have to reset the pc manually after that.

I have downloaded this bsd version and it were 3 iso files. 1 boot cd and a cd1 an cd2. It never asked for the second cd, could that be the cause of my problems?

Don't use .xsession. That file is only to be used if you're running XDM and right now you need to get X running correctly first. Therefore, use .xinitrc and startx until you have X running the way you want. As for debugging it, run startx and when it returns you back to the prompt, look at the contents of /var/log/XFree86.0.log for the cause of the problem. Post those contents here, if you can't figure it out for yourself.

> It never asked for the second cd, could that be the cause of my problems?
No. CD2 is the live file system CD and you never need this CD unless you want to run FreeBSD from a boot CD to play around with it.