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Prerequisites

To complete this guide, the following is assumed:

You are running Oleg's firmware (1.9.2.7-6b or later)

You have harddisk partitions up and running with an extended filesystem mounted to /opt

You have installed the Ipkg package system.

You have configured your partitions to automount.

You have setup and successfully run Samba on your LAN (using the guest account) and you have some shares already setup in smb.conf.

Changing your smb.conf file

Before trying to run nmbd, it is necessary to modify your smb.conf file so that nmbd gets the right settings.

nano /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf

Make sure the workgroup line is set to the name of your local workgroup. In this case, it is MSHOME

Also, you need to include the server string line. In this case, the name 'asus' has been chosen. This is what is displayed in 'My Network Places' under the 'View Workgroup Computers' section (the Wl-HDD is displayed as a computer icon).

Here is an example smb.conf, designed to run with user security. Samba with Users shows you how to do this.

[global]
workgroup = MSHOME
guest account = ftp
security = user
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
guest only = no
log level = 1
max log size = 100
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file=/opt/etc/samba/smbpasswd
dns proxy = no
server string = asus    

[share1]
path=/path/to/share
writeable= yes
browseable= yes

Now save your changes and exit:

Ctrl + O
Ctrl + X

Now we need to setup nmbd so that it starts after boot:

To do this, we just add a line to the startup script in init.d:

echo "/usr/sbin/nmbd -D -l /opt/var/log/nmbd.log -s /opt/etc/samba/smb.conf">>/opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

Now kill all samba processes:

killall smbd

And start samba again:

/opt/etc/init.d/S97Samba

See it in action

Browse to 'My Network Places' in windows. Click on 'My Workgroup Computers'.

Your device should be displayed under the name that you chose. You may need to refresh.