[HowTo] Install and Configure a WORKING Samba (Vista included)

[QMax]

No way for me to access to my USB connected to 500gP running original Samba from Oleg's firmware (Samba 2.0.10-security-rollup).
I'll try installing Samba2...

In the meantime I've found that my Vista Home Premium can't browse shared folders on a Win2000 SP4 machine... no problems browsing from XP....

Any reports about how samba 3 works on small memory amount devices ?

Max

[rj.2001]

Hello,

this works fine for me with Olegs FW 1.9.2.7-8
But with the FW 1.9.2.7-8 you must do the following steps:

Install the better IPKG:

mkdir /opt/tmp
mkdir /opt/tmp/ipkg
ipkg.sh update
ipkg.sh install ipkg-opt
ipkg update
ipkg upgrade

Stop SAMBA2:

killall nmbd
killall smbd

Disable the SAMBA2 that comes with the FW:
if you create a startup script for Samba:

chmod -x /opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

if not, be shure that SAMBA is disabled in the WEB-Interface!
You can't uninstall it.. see:

ipkg list_installed

Save the old SAMBA2 configuration if you create one:

mv /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf.smb2

Install SAMBA 3.0.26a-1:

ipkg install sama

Configure your smb.conf.
Thats my:

[global]
workgroup = MATRIX
guest account = nobody
security = share
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = no
log level = 0
log file = /opt/logs/smbd.log
max log size = 100
encrypt passwords = yes
dns proxy = no
netbios name = WL500gP
server string = ASUS WL500g Premium
socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_SNDBUF=8192 

[share$]
path=/
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = no

[harddisk$]
path=/tmp/harddisk
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = no

[flash$]
path=/opt
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = no

[www]
path=/tmp/harddisk/www
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = yes

[ftp_pvt]
path=/tmp/harddisk/ftp_pvt
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = yes

[ftp_pub]
path=/tmp/harddisk/ftp_pub
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = yes

[logs]
path=/opt/logs
writeable = yes
force user = root
browseable = yes

/opt is a usb-flash-stick
and /tmp/harddisk is a usb-hdd

Don't forget...

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

at the end


In my case, i does'nt change any value with the secpol.msc or in the registry of my WinVista Ultimate OS.

I hope this helps also