Samba filesystem
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One of the things you might miss on a DD-WRT enabled router is its ability to write to storage. If you run a Linux samba or Windows server on your LAN, the Samba file system provides a convenient solution to customize this storage! It adds a vast amount of writable storage to your router and even offers an automatic startup script.
Standard and larger versions of DD-WRT contain the Samba Client. Mini and Micro versions of DD-WRT do not contain Samba. See the Wiki page What_is_"DD-WRT"?#File_Versions.
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Instructions
- Create a SMB network share on the host computer.
- On Linux, use Samba to create a SMB network share. HOWTO
- On Windows, this is the default file sharing system. Simply right click and select "Sharing and Security" to set up sharing.
- On MacOS X, go to "Sharing" in the System Preferences and turn on "Windows Sharing" for 10.4 or in 10.5 “Share files and folders using SMB.” from the File Sharing options.
- Use the Web Interface and go to the Administration tab.
- Enable the Samba FS Automount option. If new options do not appear the "Save Changes" and go back to the page.
- Enter the share location in the 'share' field. eg: //192.168.1.160/myshare
- In 'user' and 'password' enter the user credentials of a user allowed to access the share.
- You may optionally enter a Startscript. For example if you have a script on your share \\lanserver\myshare\startup.sh you enter startup.sh in the 'Startscript' box. This script (/tmp/smbshare/startup.sh on the router) will be executed when the router mounts your share on boot.
You can see sample of startup script on Jffs page.
Mount Manually
You can manually mount a share. First, enable Samba through the web interface, or in an SSH/Telnet session:
insmod /lib/modules/`uname -r`/smbfs.o
Then enter these commands:
mkdir /tmp/Path/ smbmount //<IP Address of your windows or other samba server>/Share /tmp/Path/ -o username=<user>,password=<password_user>
- /tmp/Path/ is the path you want mounted
- Only /tmp/, /dev/ and potentially /jffs/ are writeable!
Receiving errors like the following seem normal:
load_client_codepage: filename /usr/lib/codepages/codepage.850 does not exist. load_unicode_map: filename /usr/lib/codepages/unicode_map.850 does not exist. session request to 192.168.1.99 failed Can't get /etc/mtab~ lock filesmbmnt failed: 1
To unmount a share, enter this command in a shell prompt:
umount /tmp/Path/ rmdir /tmp/Path/ rmmod smbfs
Note for Windows Server 2003
Especially on Windows Server 2003, assert that your server accepts NTLM v1.
- Goto Start > Run
- Type "gpedit.msc" and push enter.
- Goto Computer Configuration / Windows Settings / Security Settings / Local Policies / Security Options.
- Verify that "Network security: LAN Manager authentication level" is NOT "Send NTLMv2 response only\refuse LM & NTLM"
Install Samba Server on DD-WRT
If you have a powerfull Router like the Asus Asus WL-500gP(remium) you might want to use the USB 2.0 Ports for HD sharing with Windows Clients. At first install the USB stuff according to http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/USB#Installation
To install Samba just type:
/opt/bin/ipkg install samba2
after some package installing the samba server is ready.
A nice Howto for this is located here Optware
You should really try it the optware way because it works :)