Message for Oleg

[Mektub]

I have a WL-500gp with the latest Oleg firmware and I have been trying
to install samba 2:

/opt/bin/ipkg update
/opt/bin/ipkg remove samba
/opt/bin/ipkg install samba2
/opt/bin/ipkg install xinetd
/opt/etc/init.d/S10xinetd start
/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba start


/opt/bin/ipkg remove samba does nothing, I suppose thats because it comes with the firmware itself.

Anyhow samba2 and xinetd install correctly, and I can access SWAT.
I took S97Samba from Oleg out of rhe way and /opt/etc/init.d/S80samba looks OK.

I also disabled Samba Demo mode and hidden read-write share on the browser interface.

I configured samba thru SWAT, and later with 'vi' at /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf on my several tries.

But smbd will not start, either thru SWAT or by executing 'S80Samba start' directly.

It still logs briefly:

[2007/02/23 00:26:05, 0] source/smbd/server.c:main(791)
smbd version 2.2.12 started.
Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
[2007/02/23 00:26:05, 1] source/lib/debug.c:debug_message(258)
INFO: Debug class all level = 2 (pid 223 from pid 223)
[2007/02/23 00:26:05, 2] source/param/loadparm.c:do_section(3073)
Processing section "[smbshare]"

But dies at once. I installed 'strace' and used it directly with smbd -D but the output didn't clarify what is happening.

nmbd survives for some time, about 1 minute and dies also.

The output of 'lsmod | sort' is:

Module Size Used by
audio 50680 0 (unused)
ehci-hcd 31660 0 (unused)
et 34912 0 (unused)
ip_nat_starcraft 2224 0 (unused)
ipt_NETMAP 992 2
printer 12676 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 70216 3 [usb-storage sd_mod]
sd_mod 13292 6
soundcore 5320 0 [audio]
usb-storage 62568 3
usb-uhci 28564 0 (unused)
usbcore 83904 1 [usb-storage audio printer ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
videodev 8344 0
wl 423856 0 (unused)

And my smb.conf is:

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = MEKTUB
guest account = nobody
server string = ASUS
interfaces = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.1
bind interfaces only = yes
security = SHARE
browseable = yes
guest ok = Yes
guest only = no
log level = 2
max log size = 100
encrypt passwords = no
dns proxy = No
log file = /opt/var/log/samba/log.%m
load printers = No

[smbshare]
path = /opt/smbshare
writeable = yes
browseable = yes


The output of 'df' is:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 2.9M 2.9M 0 100% /
/dev/root 2.9M 2.9M 0 100% /
/dev/discs/disc0/part1
37G 251M 35G 1% /opt
/dev/discs/disc1/part1
896M 19M 832M 3% /tmp/harddisk


I run out of ideas, by now. Since I have a disk with swap, I am thinking of trying samba3. Or is that a bad idea ?

Mektub

[oleo]

What I would suggest is to run testparam to see if there is any problem with config.

Another way is to copy working config from /etc/smb.conf to /opt/etc/samba.smb.conf when you are in samba demo mode.

[Mektub]

What I would suggest is to run testparam to see if there is any problem with config.

Another way is to copy working config from /etc/smb.conf to /opt/etc/samba.smb.conf when you are in samba demo mode.

testparm output does not detect any errors. I am used to it since now and then I configured Samba in Linux machines.

Then I did: enable samba demo, copied /etc/smb.conf to /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf, disabled samba demo and tried to start samba thru /opt/etc/init.d/S80Samba. smbd starts and exits, nmbd survives 30 seconds and dies.

Perhaps I will try samba3.

Regards,

Mektub

[Dutchman]

testparm output does not detect any errors. I am used to it since now and then I configured Samba in Linux machines.

Then I did: enable samba demo, copied /etc/smb.conf to /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf, disabled samba demo and tried to start samba thru /opt/etc/init.d/S80Samba. smbd starts and exits, nmbd survives 30 seconds and dies.

Perhaps I will try samba3.

Regards,

Mektub

Hi!

I have the same problem....I am stuck.
Can anyone help me?

Thanks!

[oleo]

Take attention to passwd file.
smb passwd file = /opt/etc/samba/smbpasswd

try smbpasswd -a admin
and smbpasswd -a nobody

[s0Va]

i have tried again to install the samba2 package but no success. just let me describe and comment my steps:

here your walkthrough i was following:
1) /opt/bin/ipkg update
2) /opt/bin/ipkg remove samba
3) /opt/bin/ipkg install samba2
4) /opt/bin/ipkg install xinetd
5) /opt/etc/init.d/S10xinetd start
6) /opt/etc/init.d/S80samba start

here my attempts:
1) works fine
2) error message - but this is ok as in wl-hdd's firmware samba 2.0.10-security_rollup is already included but not installed by ipkg
3) starts downloading and says "installing to root..." and this is it. i do not get any response from my device for a long time (cannot say how long as i left it alone for several hours). after that i logged in using putty over ssh and wl-hdd was up and running but still no samba 2.2.12 installed.
4) not necessary for wl-hdd as it is already installed
5) works fine
6) /opt/etc/init.d/S80samba does not exist only S97samba exists (which is olegs samba 2.0.10).

Got a similar problem. I have WL500W with Oleg's firmware 1.9.2.7-8-pre9 and USB HDD 40 GB used as storage and 500 MB swap.

1) goes well
2) says there is no such package so there's nothing to remove
3) says samba2 suggests installing xinetd before hanging up
4) goes fine if done before 3). Actually after the first unsuccessful attempt of installing samba2 I went on installing xinetd first and trying to install samba2 afterwards.

Here is what happens when trying to install samba2 package:

[admin@router part1]$ ipkg -V 3 -t /tmp/harddisk/part1/tmp -force-reinstall install samba2_2.2.12-1_mipsel.ipk
pkg_info_preinstall_check: updating arch priority for each package
pkg_info_preinstall_check: update file owner list
best installation candidate for samba2
 adding samba2 to providers
  samba2 arch=mipsel arch_priority=10 constraint=1
  using held package samba2
arch mipsel (priority 10) supported for pkg samba2
Installing samba2 (2.2.12-1) to root...
best installation candidate for xinetd
 adding xinetd to providers
  xinetd arch=mipsel arch_priority=10 constraint=1
  using latest version of installed package xinetd
pkg_depends.c:177: satisfying_pkg=0x10179600
Running script /tmp/harddisk/part1/tmp/ipkg-XXddZ3/samba2-cfUTcy/preinst
  installing maintainer scripts
  installing data files
    extracting data files to /

At this point two instances of ipkg eat up the entire CPU and in about 30 seconds the router becomes unresponsive while heavily using the HDD (presumably for swapping RAM). Telnet can't connect afterwards so I couldn't check the logs or see what was happening. A second telnet session running in parallel and showing the output of the "top" command ceases to update terminal as well.

After several hours of heavy HDD usage everything stops. Still no response to telnet connection attempts, no DHCP, nothing. But pinging the router yields prompt response as well as pinging some external destinations by IP (DNS does not work at this time).

Of course after plugging the router out and back in there are no traces of samba2 or xinetd installed.

Probably next time I'll try to arrange booting the router from the HDD and installing SAMBA v.3 on it.

[s0Va]

Probably next time I'll try to arrange booting the router from the HDD and installing SAMBA v.3 on it.

Succeeded doing that. Everything rocks now. Except there is no SWAT so all configs are to be done in console.