Network storage HD as FTP?

[raster]

Can I in someway use my network HD as the shared ftp-folder? It doesn't have USB access...

Thanks /Rasmus

[raas]

where do you want usb access for?
the network HD has IDE connector to connect to harddisk.
Yes. you can share this harddisk through FTP

[raster]

I have 500gb inside the NAS but I would like to be able to share that on the WL500's FTP-service. The FTP feature is by default only for an external USB HD directly attach to the WL500. I am looking for a solution to share through the netcable (RJ45) and not USB. - I doent have an external USB HD.

Regards Rasmus

[raas]

still don't know what you want to do.

do you have WL-HDD ? it has built-in Harddisk,
WL-500g does not have builtin harddisk, only option is to connect through one of the usb-ports and share this through ftp/samba

Do you run original firmware or oleg's or some other?

[sensimilla]

I understand what you want to do.

I do not think it is possible with the Asus firmware, but with Oleg's I think you can do it.

If your NAS supports samba or nfs, you can mount the NAS device onto the wl-500g filesystem and then it can work as if it is plugged into the router directly by usb, it may even be faster. I have not had much success with NFS. Look in the tutorials forum for how to setup Oleg's firmware with samba.

To mount a samba share to the filesystem look at this thread

http://wl500g.info/showthread.php?t=8609

Another option if your NAS has a FTP server built in is to forward the ftp ports to the ip address of your NAS device assuming you want to access it from outside your network.

[raster]

Great!
Actually it is a wl500w but I installed oleg's firmware (1.9.2.7-8-pre9) with success. Thats all I have done - didn't telnet anything..

The Netcenter (NAS) supports NFS and CIFS. (Not samba unless I install it as ipkg) - I don't know what NFS does but I just enabled it on both the NAS and on WL500w. Now I need to mount the NAS on the WL500 - and how do I do that. I am guessing i have to enter something under "NFS Server Exports"?
- I entered a looong shot "/opt/bin/smbmount \\Wd-netcenter\data" and not surprisingly it didn't work.

Could you be a little more specific? - I just recieved the Asus Router..

Thanks /Rasmus

[sensimilla]

hmm, not too sure about mounting nfs as I use samba.
try

mkdir /tmp/nfs
mount -t nfs Wd-netcenter:/data /tmp/nfs

or

mount -t nfs 192.168.1.23:/data /tmp/nfs

using the ip address of your Wd-netcenter.

[raster]

I think I got it.

Had success with (mount -t nfs 10.0.0.4:/shares/Main/DATA /tmp/nfs)

Trouble is it only works after i run "mkdir /tmp/nfs" and "insmod nfs" from telnet so I havent been able to test it from ftp.
I know I have to edit a "startup-file" and put the "mkdir /tmp/nfs" and "insmod nfs" commands in it to start the router with the above settings, but how and where do I access the startup-file (.conf?)?

thanks /Rasmus

[sensimilla]

Well done

The file you are looking for is:

/usr/local/sbin/post-boot

It probably doesn't exist yet. You can create it and add the lines you need as follows:

echo "#!/bin/sh" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "mkdir /tmp/nfs" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "insmod nfs" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot
echo "mount -t nfs 10.0.0.4:/shares/Main/DATA /tmp/nfs" >> /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

make it executable:

chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/post-boot

save it and restart the router:

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

Then you should be good to go.

[raster]

I did everything above. Entered each line followed by "ENTER". Everything from telnet. Didnt write anything under nfs exports in the webconfiguration.
I believe it went well.
But how do I know if the new shares/Main/DATA has been mounted correctly. I cant access is through ftp "ftp://10.0.0.2" - would it automaticly be mounted as an ftp-folder?



thanks for your help /Rasmus

[sensimilla]

if you want to see if it is mounted try

ls /tmp/nfs

If you can see your files and folders then it is mounted properly.
if you cant see any files or folders try:

mount

this will show you a list of all the mounted filesystems one of the lines should be the NAS device on /tmp/nfs.

To mount it as an FTP-folder you can add the location /tmp/nfs to the built in FTP server via the web interface, make sure it is enabled.

[raster]

Thanks alot. It is mounted correctly, but I can't figure out how to share it on ftp. I don't have any option that allowes me to add the "tmp/nfs". My option are as follows: (using olegs 1.9.2.7-8-pre9)

USB Application - FTP Server
Force to Eject USB Disk:
Enable FTP Server? YesNo
Allow Anonymous User to Login? YesNoLogin
Allow Super User to Login? YesNoLogin
FTP Port:
Maximum Users Allowed to Log in:
Login Timeout in Seconds:
Stay Timeout in Seconds:
Initial Script:

Thanks for helping out.

[raster]

anybody...?