[Bloat] Summary: Windows file sharing

[Dave Taht]

Thank you very much for staying on this.

We need to move this to a wiki page.

To clarify step 4 mildly, you need to supply a wins server across the
'secure' interfaces - se00 sw10 sw00. It is probably a bad idea to
supply wins on the 'guest' interfaces (as by default guests are
firewalled off from the secure ones - wins might work but
filesharing won't)

I will fix in rc8.

The problem on getting rc8 out the door is all the churn
going on in both openwrt (official linux 3.1.X support should land soon (?),
and both new samba3 and samba36 patches have landed),
and in the main 3.2 kernel trees, where BQL just landed (Yea!), and eric
dumazet has just fixed multiple bugs in all the AQMS (improving
hashing in particular - and maybe improving SFB), and a major
one in RED just yesterday.

And worse, going from 3.1 to 3.2 is going to be a PITA, as
much of the underlying tree structure has changed.

Regardless I'm going to have to rebase cerowrt on openwrt head after
more dust settlles, and re-apply the cerowrt-specific patches on top of
that.

I'm very tempted to put cerowrt down entirely
while all this gets sorted out. The above things are very promising
things happening that could easily consume all of my time,
that don't need to happen on a router right now.

https://github.com/dtaht/deBloat/commits/master


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I believe my Windows file sharing is finally working by making the
> router a WINS server.  Here is a summary of everything (?) I think you
> have to do:
>
>
> 1)  On each PC, enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP.  I found this disabled on
> both Windows XP and Windows 7 machines.  Go to the properties for your
> network adapter, select Internet Protocol Version 4 then click on the
> Properties button.  When the Properties window comes up, click on the
> Advanced... button in the lower-right hand corner.  When the Advanced
> Settings window comes up, make sure that "Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP"
> is selected.  LMHOSTS lookup can be on or off.
>
>
> 2)  Install the samba3 package on the router to enable WINS support, via:
>
>    opkg update
>    opkg install samba3 luci-app-samba
>
>    (or install via the web interface)
>
>
> 3)  By default, /etc/config/samba will look like:
>
>    config samba
>        option 'name'                   'openwrt'
>        option 'workgroup'              'openwrt'
>        option 'description'            'openwrt'
>        option 'homes'                  '1'
>
>    config sambashare
>        option 'name'                   'tmp'
>        option 'path'                   '/tmp'
>        option 'read_only'              'no'
>        option 'guest_ok'               'no'
>        option 'create_mask'            '0700'
>        option 'dir_mask'               '0700'
>        #option 'users'                 'abc'
>
>    Change the 'workgroup' option above to match your Windows
> workgroup name, or re-configure the workgroup of all the Windows
> computers to be OPENWRT (matches default 'workgroup' above)
>
>
> 4)  There are not one, but two errors in the present /etc/config/dhcp
> file.  You only have to fix the first one:
>
>    config 'dhcp' 'sw00'
>       option interface        'sw00'
>       option start    2
>       option limit    26
>       list 'dhcp_option' '42,0.0.0.0'
>       option leasetime        24h
>       option domain   'home.lan'
>
>    The dhcp options for supplying WINS are not set, so add the
> following line to /etc/config/dhcp after the existing dhcp_option line
> shown above:
>
>    list 'dhcp_option' '44,0.0.0.0'
>
>
> 5)  Modify "/etc/samba/smb.conf.template" and add this line to the
> [global] section:
>
>    wins support = yes
>
>
> 6)  Start samba via:
>
>    /etc/init.d/samba start
>
>
> 7)  Open Windows Explorer, and make sure you can see the computers on
> the wireless subnet from the computers on the wired subnet, and
> vice-versa (this will be in the Network section in the lower-left hand
> corner).  Try to access the file share of a remote system using its
> Windows file path:
>
>    \\WIRED (from a wireless computer)
>
>
> 7)  One it's all working, open the router GUI, click on the System tab
> in the top row, then on the Startup tab in the second row.  Make sure
> the "samba" is Enabled.  This is so Samba starts when the router is
> rebooted.
>
>
> Special thanks to Robert Bradley and David Täht for all their help and
> suggestions (mostly copied verbatim to the instructions above), and
> especially their patience while I tried to make this work, and neither
> of them having access to a Windows 7 machine.
>
>
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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