WL-500W with HDD Mac OSX connection failed

[QMax]

My problem is changes to smb.conf are not surviving the reboot of the router.

Did you save it in the internal flash ?

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

With Samba2 installed, no problems accessing USB storage from Win/Mac/Linux machines.

Max

[cMcd01]

Did you save it in the internal flash ?

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

Max

Yes. I've executed that series of commands to save to flash. And I believe I've followed Oleg's instructions (http://oleg.wl500g.info/#tips) correctly for saving smb.conf locally - .files shows:

cat /usr/local/.files
/etc/fstab
/etc/smb.conf

It seems like smb.conf is being re-written after reboot after load of flashfs (assuming flashfs is being loaded).

[mrcookie]

I think that what is happening is that you have the smb enabled via the web and thus it is rewriting the smb.conf based on the web configured options and the unwanted default for encrypt passwords.

1 - disable the samba on the web gui (USB application->samba->disabled)
2 - login to wl and create the desired smb.conf under /usr/local/etc/smb.conf (you may just cp /etc/smb.conf /usr/local/etc/smb.conf and fix the "encrypt passwords = yes"
3 - edit the file /usr/local/sbin/post-boot and add the two smbd/nmbd lines, it may look like:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/sbin/smbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf
/usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /usr/local/etc/smb.conf

4 - flashfs save && flashfs commit && flashfs enable
5 - reboot the router

Note that if you want to customize the shares you can't use the web anymore, just go and edit the /usr/local/etc/smb.conf as needed