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Samba
So, you have a HDD connected to your box, now you want to access this disk over network connection. For this we need to configure the samba-daemon.

Create samba-directory:

mkdir /opt/etc/samba

Create samba-config-file with nano or vi:

nano /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

Content of /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf:

 
[global]
workgroup = YOURWORKGROUPNAME
guest account = nobody
security = share
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = no
log level = 1
max log size = 100
encrypt passwords = no
dns proxy = no

[smbshare]
path=/opt/share
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
force user = admin

[otherdir]
path=/opt/share/otherdir
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
force user = admin

This is just an example, too. It makes the "share"-directory accessible over network under the name "smbshare" and its subdir "otherdir" under the name "otherdir". You can modify that like you want. Under Windows you can connect to this dirs with \\192.168.1.1\smbshare and \\192.168.1.1\otherdir.

Create samba-Init-file:

nano /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

Content of /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -l /opt/var/log/smbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D -n myasus -o -l /tmp -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

Mark init-file as executable:

chmod 755 /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

Save changes in flash and reboot:

flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable && reboot

Install (c)torrent
There are two ipkg-packages, which make it possible to download files over bittorrent-protocol with your box. The downloaded files are stored on USB-HDD. This download-solution is not compatible with the Asus download master. But it works very well, I never used Asus dm at all. To control and supervise the downloads oleo wrote a cgi-script, which enables you to control your downloads with browser/webinterface. Thanks to oleo.

ipkg install ctorrent
ipkg install torrent

The following directories are necessary:

mkdir /opt/share/torrent
mkdir /opt/share/torrent/source
mkdir /opt/share/torrent/work
mkdir /opt/share/torrent/target

To get the cgi-script run you have to edit the httpd configuration-file:

nano /usr/local/root/httpd.conf

Content of /usr/local/root/httpd.conf

 
A:*
/cgi-bin:admin:admin
.au:audio/basic
.asp:text/html

You have to start the http daemon in one of the start-scripts:

nano /usr/local/sbin/post-mount

Add following line to /usr/local/sbin/post-mount

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/busybox_httpd -p 8008 -h /opt/share/www

Now you can edit the torrent configuration file:

nano /opt/etc/torrent.conf

Mine looks like this:

##########
#   Configuration
#   NOTE: no spaces around the = sign
#   the config will be sourced (eg. . torrent.conf)

SOURCE=/opt/share/torrent/source
WORK=/opt/share/torrent/work
TARGET=/opt/share/torrent/target
MAILTO=
MAILFROM=
# default MAILER is mini_sendmail
#MAILOPT="-sblackhole.dyndns.org -f"
USER=admin
GROUP=root
DATE_FORMAT="%d %h %H:%M"

# btget port range environment
BTLIB_MINPORT=52846
export BTLIB_MINPORT
BTLIB_MAXPORT=52846
export BTLIB_MAXPORT
#time between logs
LOG_TIME=59

# Seed torrent after completition (YES or NO)
AUTOSEED="YES"

#Colors for command line. # comment out if not needed
GREEN="\033[32;1m"
#NC="\033[0m"
#BACK_UP="\033[1K\033[0G"
NORMAL="\033[0m"
WARN="\033[33;1m"
BAD="\033[31;1m"
BOLD="\033[1m"
GOOD="\033[32;1m"

Now you can put a torrent-file into the source-dir and control it with the cgi-script http://192.168.1.1:8008/cgi-bin/torrent.cgi. That's it.

Install nload
A nice tool to watch the traffic on the network interfaces of the box is nload:

ipkg install nload

You can use it for example like this:

nload -t 200 -s 7 -i 2048 -o 256 -u H eth1

-t: time until refresh in ms
-s: smoothness [1-9], 1 means average over litte, 9 over long time
-i: sets scale for incoming traffic, in kBit/s
-o: sets scale for outgoing traffic, in kBit/s
-u: sets units, see helppage -h for more details

In order to make this command more easier to use, you can create an alias in /usr/local/sbin/post-boot:

nano /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

Add the following line to post-boot file

echo "alias nld=\"nload -t 200 -s 7 -i 2048 -o 256 -u H eth1\"">>/etc/profile

The Wondershaper-issue
I must admit, that's one thing, that doesn't work well, yet. Wondershaper is a script which provides QoS, but I can't get it run very well.
I tried to start the script with:

/init/wshaper start "eth1" 1990 190 " " " " "54321" "54321"

But except of some experiments I don't use it, cause it don't work very well for me. For own experiments use nload to watch effects of wshaper.
In my opinion thy syntax is quite complicated. For further information read the following:
- http://wiki.wl500g.info/index.php/PackageWondershaper
- Wondershaper QoS discussion on AsusForum
- http://www.docum.org/docum.org/docs/BB/BB.php
- http://lartc.org/lartc.html

That's it. Preliminary. I hope it helped you a bit. This here are all steps I've done on my box and it's running since a week or two without any problem (except wshaper)...

As I wrote above: Any corrections, comments, improvements or suggestions are welcome! You can help to correct and complete this.

[edit@20060728]: typos
[edit@20060822-Styno]: typo