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

[Styno]

post-boot is a file.

Make sure you use a recent firmware from Oleg and then execute (if the /usr/local/sbin dir doesn't exist):
- flashfs enable
- mkdir /usr/local/sbin
- touch post-boot
- touch pre-boot
- touch post-firewall
- touch post-mount
- flashfs save
- flashfs commit

[®ol@nd]

Can't get the samba share working, what's going wrong?

I did try this tutorial to enable a samba share at my external usb harddisk, but i can't access it through a share. What's going wrong?

Here is all my information:

[admin@(none) root]$ cat /etc/smb.conf
workgroup = WERKGROEP
server string = OpenWRT Samba Server
wins support = no
dns proxy = no
name resolve order = lmhosts hosts bcast
log file = /opt/var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
security = share
encrypt passwords = true
obey pam restrictions = yes
guest account = nobody
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
load printers = no

[share]
comment = /tmp/harddisk
path = /tmp/harddisk
writeable = yes
browseable = yes
force user = admin

[admin@(none) root]$ ps
PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
1 admin 700 S /sbin/init
2 admin SW [keventd]
3 admin SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 admin SW [kswapd]
5 admin SW [bdflush]
6 admin SW [kupdated]
7 admin SW [mtdblockd]
41 admin 292 S telnetd
46 admin 392 S httpd eth1
49 admin 340 S klogd
53 nobody 428 S dnsmasq
54 admin 388 S syslogd -m 0 -O /tmp/syslog.log -S -l 7
56 admin 500 S nas /tmp/nas.lan.conf /tmp/nas.lan.pid lan
59 admin SW [khubd]
69 admin 276 S lpd
71 admin 260 S p9100d -f /dev/usb/lp0 0
73 admin 260 S p9101d -f /dev/printers/0 1
76 admin 340 S waveservermain
78 admin 348 S rcamdmain
82 admin SW [usb-storage-0]
83 admin SW [scsi_eh_0]
93 admin 324 S infosvr br0
94 admin 480 S watchdog
96 admin 340 S ntp
104 admin 428 S dropbear
113 admin SW [kjournald]
115 admin 404 S stupid-ftpd
117 admin 744 R dropbear
118 admin 528 S -sh
124 admin 392 R ps

[admin@(none) root]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
#!/bin/sh
dropbear
/usr/sbin/smbd -D
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D

What is going wrong? It look to me that Samba is not started, but howcome?

Any help apriciated.

Tnx,
Roland

[®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,