[HowTo] Getting started (Firmware upgr, Storage, Samba, SSH)

[®ol@nd]

Already did try some more things, with the same result, it looks again that Samba is not starting. I followed the above tutorial, and also try the tutorial from www.macsat.com

This is my post boot file at the moment:

[admin@(none) root]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
#!/bin/sh
dropbear
mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part1 /opt
mount -t ext3 /dev/discs/disc0/part3 /tmp/harddisk
swapon /dev/discs/disc0/part2
# remove audio module
killall waveservermain
rmmod audio
rmmod soundcore
# And printer
killall p910nd
killall lpd
killall infosvr
rmmod printer
# start Samba
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D

Please help, got stuck....

Roland

[bartgrefte]

well, thanx alot . this howto won't let my router be reachable anymore....
it boots, but i can't reach it by 192.168.1.1 and can't get internet to. so i plugged the wan cable direct in my pc and internet works again....
but the router not.... i pushed the resetbutton several times and now i unplugged the powercable with the hope of a total reset.

i've got an 500gdeluxe with oleg's 1.9.2.7-6b
HD: a WD 160GB in a sitecom md200 (old version) casing formatted as EXT3 as 1 big partition, works with ftp but has appearantly a 2GB filesize limit since uploading of 2GB< files always failes. WHY??

what i did:
i put this in smb.conf
[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
guest account = nobody
security = share
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = no
log level = 1
max log size = 100
encrypt passwords = yes
dns proxy = no
and saved it--> \\192.168.1.1 gave "incorrect path" in windows so samba didnt work (yet)

then i added this to smb.conf:
[ext3]
path=/tmp/harddisk
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
force user = admin
then i did this:
echo /etc/smb.conf >> /usr/local/.files

and this:
echo "/usr/sbin/smbd -D" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "/usr/sbin/nmbd -D" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
this first didn't work since the sbin directory didn't exist. I created that and the postboot with some other howto from this site.

and last:
flashfs save
flashfs commit
flashfs enable
reboot

what did i wrong to make my router not reachable anymore and why did't samba work????

[unicorn]

You don't write what modifications did you do with your router except samba configuration. Without this info it is not possible to say why is your asus not routing to internet. Definitely it is not caused by samba.

For your samba "problem" - it looks like you didn't make the post-boot script executable and forgot to put #!/bin/sh at begining of the file

You can fix it with following commands:

echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "/usr/sbin/smbd -D" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "/usr/sbin/nmbd -D" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
flashfs save
flashfs commit
flashfs enable
reboot

I presume you have only 2 lines in post-boot right now. If you added other lines to your post-boot, just add the first line using vi editor.

[bartgrefte]

You don't write what modifications did you do with your router except samba configuration. Without this info it is not possible to say why is your asus not routing to internet. Definitely it is not caused by samba.

For your samba "problem" - it looks like you didn't make the post-boot script executable and forgot to put #!/bin/sh at begining of the file

You can fix it with following commands:

echo "#!/bin/sh" > /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "/usr/sbin/smbd -D" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "/usr/sbin/nmbd -D" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
flashfs save
flashfs commit
flashfs enable
reboot

I presume you have only 2 lines in post-boot right now. If you added other lines to your post-boot, just add the first line using vi editor.

i already did a full reset and now the router is working fine. i dont think i'll try samba again unless i know exactly what i'm doing,

[matt]

mkeswap /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
swapon /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lub0/part1

Now we'll create a ext3 file system on the logical partition:

mke2fs -j /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lub0/part5

Should be, after typos corrected in mkswap and the last two paths:

mkswap /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
swapon /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

Now we'll create a ext3 file system on the logical partition:

mke2fs -j /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5

Hope that helps. Just finishing of the rest of the tutorial myself.

matt

[ookmich]

Hi! I've been working on a configuration as described in this thread, but I'm running into difficulties. Could someone please help?

I have formatted my usb drive as described, with a big fat32 and an ext3 partition. On the command line I don't see any problems. But these drives don't work properly in Windows.

At first, I got it working. But when I started editing the name of the shared drive and the names of the shared folders, things went wrong. Now I can't see any drive in my network neigbourhood. All my XP machines give an error messages: "Windows - System error / A duplicate name exists on the network"

Does anyone have a clue?

Thanks for your help! ye, Michiel.

[unicorn]

What do you mean by

editing the name of the shared drive

Perhaps now you have 2 computers with the same name on net, therefore you have also the error message

"Windows - System error / A duplicate name exists on the network"

[ookmich]

I have solved my problem with "Windows - System error / A duplicate name exists on the network".
The machine name of my router was the same as my workgroup name. After I changed the name of my router, this message was gone and I could see my workgroup again.

Now i'm just struggling with users and passwords, so I'm one step further...

Thanks for your help, Michiel

[ROBBY]

hello
excuse my bad english
I have WL 500g Deluxe
With your excellent tutorial, I had install WL 500gx-1.9.2.7-4.trx. it run very well
I have an extern hard disk (Western Digital 250 Go). I do tutorial enterily... but samba want not run

In /var/log/smb :
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .
No interface found for adress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (I don't know what is this adress, it's not IP adress of my router, it's not IP adress of my network and it's not my internet IP !)
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .

In /var/log/nmb
1970/01/01 00:00:11 netbios name server version 1.9.18p10 started
Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994_1997
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .
Unable to get my hostname - exiting.

What is hapened ? What can I do to repare this? please help me
I had do my /etc/smb.conf like in tutorial and I can see my hard disk like
ftp server but not like a share device...
Thank you very much for your help

[Antiloop]

hello
excuse my bad english
I have WL 500g Deluxe
With your excellent tutorial, I had install WL 500gx-1.9.2.7-4.trx. it run very well
I have an extern hard disk (Western Digital 250 Go). I do tutorial enterily... but samba want not run

In /var/log/smb :
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .
No interface found for adress xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (I don't know what is this adress, it's not IP adress of my router, it's not IP adress of my network and it's not my internet IP !)
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .

In /var/log/nmb
1970/01/01 00:00:11 netbios name server version 1.9.18p10 started
Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1994_1997
Get_Hostbyname : Unknown host (none) .
Unable to get my hostname - exiting.

What is hapened ? What can I do to repare this? please help me
I had do my /etc/smb.conf like in tutorial and I can see my hard disk like
ftp server but not like a share device...
Thank you very much for your help

set the hostname on your Asus device then try again

[ROBBY]

thanks for your help
what "name" I put ? the name of workgroup ? or what ?
thanks

[ROBBY]

ohhhh! thank you
thankyou very very veeerrryyy MUCH!!!
IT'S RUN LIKE A CHARM!!!!!

[JaJoah]

Okay,

I managed to get SSH, WWW, Samba and RRD working but got stuck with the VSFTPd.

When I installed VSFTPd, I just couldn't connect to it (LAN side). It refused connection every f#cking time. I tried to shutdown the HDD and then reconnect it (as mentioned here)

...One of my readers have brought to my attention, that after following the guide, the ftp server kept rejecting him to login. He then reconnected his harddrive, and after that it worked. Maby worth a try if you are having problems getting it to work....

but this didn't solve the problem. It stayed unreachable. So I've given up on that and gone back to stupid-ftpd for now.

Any insight in what went wrong here is appreciated.

[ROBBY]

I use the 1.9.2.7 -7e with Samba
it goes well with a disk USB but in the Windows explorer I have:

- my first partition named “fat32” and inside the second partition “ext3” show like a repertory “part1” !!

- my second partion “ext3” and inside also I still have a repertory “part1” which is the copy of “fat3”!!

How could I avoid that? I followed your tutoriel exactly…

Still a second question pleaqe: how I can mount a second disc USB on the router ? and how I must declare it in smb.conf?

when I connect it on the router, I see it well like:
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
/dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

thank you very much of your assistance.

[ookmich]

Just a tip for people who have problems getting things working:

I my situation, I couldn't get SSH working, because the port 22 wasn't visible on the outside.

It appeared to be the following problem: My post-firewall script wasn't executable. After I made it executable, everything works fine!

Making a script executable:
type 'chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/post-firewall'

Michiel