[Bloat] Windows file sharing broken with RC6 ?

[David Täht]

On 11/30/2011 04:57 PM, David Täht wrote:
> On 11/30/2011 02:04 PM, Robert Bradley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 00:13 -0700, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
>>> It may not be as dire as I originally thought.
>>>
>>> On the two wired computers running Windows 7, in Windows Explorer I
>>> can see all the nodes on the system - themselves, OPENWRT (and its tmp
>>> directory) and the Windows 7 computer on the wireless network.
>>> However, I can't connect from the wired subnet to the wireless subnet
>>> by name:
>>>
>>>   Windows can not access \\wirelesscomputer
>>>
>>> But Windows can get to it via its IP address:
>>>
>>>   \\172.30.42.69
>>>
>>> On the wireless computer, the only node I see is itself - I don't even
>>> see OPENWRT, and certainly don't see the computers on the wired
>>> subnet.
>>>
>>
>> I'm going to guess that for some reason, the WINS server is not being
>> advertised by DHCP.  It may not be ideal, but you could try maqnually
>> configuring the WINS server on each system, pointing it at the router.
>> At least the firewall issue seems to be sorted for the moment.
> 
> Your diagnosis might be correct.
> 
> There are not one, but two errors in the present /etc/config/dhcp file
> 
> 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. It's
> not clear to me if you need to set all or merely some of these,
> but adding to each interface configuration section:      
> 
> list 'dhcp_option' '48,0.0.0.0'

agh, I just typoed that. I meant 44,0.0.0.0.


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Dave Täht