Firmware v1.8.1.7 CR2 [Oleg] - updated ( CR2a )

[oldudu]

I feel a bit silly but I'm having troubbles getting write access through Samba with firmwares 1.8.1.7-2-pre1 and 1.8.1.7-2a.

When mounting the hidden share$, I can view the directorys and open files, but I'm unable to write files to the disk. This was working fine in 1.7.5.6 CR5.

Any ideas?

I've had the same problem.
The solution I've found is to replace the user root by user admin in the line : force user =

Thanks to all for the nice job

Regards

Oldudu

[Oleg]

[I've had the same problem.
The solution I've found is to replace the user root by user admin in the line : force user =

Thanks to all for the nice job

Regards

Oldudu

Right, smb.conf has hardcoded root name, but it's provided as sample only. Well, I will probably fix this. For now either change user name to root or edit smb.conf file and save it to flashfs.

[Styno]

Thanks Oldudu. Will adding users to passwd file work with Samba?

Oleg, any ideas on how to solve my 2nd problem?

Edit 2: I have the following line in the 'post-boot' script to start a 2nd webserver which is not working

/usr/sbin/busybox_httpd -p 81 -h /tmp/harddisk/wwwroot

But when I execute the same command from the commandline the webserver starts normally. Any ideas on why this is not working from post-boot? Everything else is working fine from the post-boot script...

[Oleg]

Thanks Oldudu. Will adding users to passwd file work with Samba?

Oleg, any ideas on how to solve my 2nd problem?

Not yet. Try redirecting the output using something like this:

busybox_httpd ... > /tmp/log 2>&1

and check it after boot-up. Also, be sure you've #!/bin/sh at the top.

[virilius]

Hummm... Deleting dhcpd cache in each node did solve the problem... I did try that solution but not the right way...

Thanks a lot

[Styno]

Not yet. Try redirecting the output using something like this:

busybox_httpd ... > /tmp/log 2>&1

and check it after boot-up. Also, be sure you've #!/bin/sh at the top.

I did the test and the result is:

cat log
busybox_httpd: can`t chdir to /tmp/harddisk/wwwroot: No such file or directory

It appears that the USB HDD is not mounted yet when running 'post-boot'...I think it should be.

[Oleg]

I did the test and the result is:

cat log
busybox_httpd: can`t chdir to /tmp/harddisk/wwwroot: No such file or directory

It appears that the USB HDD is not mounted yet when running 'post-boot'...I think it should be.

Ok, I knew the answer. This is new asus know-how. They're mounting disks from the watchdog which runs once per second or so... Mount it manually or add sleep.

[Styno]

No, this never works this way. You just need to add /etc/smb.conf to the list of files (i.e. /usr/local/.files. You may want to check /sbin/flashfs - it's shell script, and it's called as "flashfs start" on boot.

Oh yes, I was being really dumb there. Thanks for pointing it out. I'm back on track with this now.

Ok, I knew the answer. This is new asus know-how. They're mounting disks from the watchdog which runs once per second or so... Mount it manually or add sleep.

OMG, thats a weird decision Asus made there. That makes the boot scripts not very reliable when USB HDD is involved...

I'll try to add some lines to post-boot script to let it wait for the disk to come online for a maximum of one minute or so. If not, the boot script will continue.

[oldudu]

Thanks Oldudu. Will adding users to passwd file work with Samba?

Hi, I don't know if it should work, but that's a good idea, I will try it later, and tell you the results later.

Oldudu

[Oleg]

Thanks Oldudu. Will adding users to passwd file work with Samba?

If you mean adding root - yes, it should work.