[Bloat] Windows file sharing broken with RC6 ?

[Jim Reisert AD1C]

I was close, but I then pushed my luck too far.

Since the "openwrt" workgroup appeared to be working, I thought I
would name the "openwrt" workgroup back to "workgroup" (by editing
/etc/config/samba), to be compatible with the other computers in the
house.  In other words, I could swap my old router back in if needed,
and the local networking would still work (they wouldn't rely on an
openwrt master).  That was a mistake, I now couldn't set the first
computer to "workgroup" because it said there was another "workgroup"
already on the network (maybe my wife's computer, which hadn't been
re-configured for openwrt).  So I modified /etc/config/samba to use
"openwrt" again.  I shut down all the computers in the house, as well
as the router.  I rebooted the router and waited.  Then I rebooted my
PC which was previously working.

I can see my own node in the Windows network but I no longer see the
"openwrt" node.  The wireless computer only sees itself, and the two
wired computers only see each other.  They no longer see the computers
on the other subnet (wired to wireless, and vice-versa).  I do see the
samba processes running on the router, so I have no idea what I broke.

Very frustrating!

- Jim

On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C
<jjreisert at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> I'm so close, see below:
>
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:51 AM, David Täht wrote:
>
>> 1) install wins support with the samba3 package (via:
>>
>>  opkg update
>>  opkg install samba3 luci-app-samba
>>
>> (or install via the web interface)
>
> Done.
>
>> 2) configure it to be in the workgroup and announce on the subnets. It
>> should then become the    'master' browser for that domain.
>>
>> While I recall this setup as straightforward (edit either /etc/config/samba
>> and/or /etc/samba/smb.conf.template) and used it to share a flash disk
>> across a XP/Vista network as well as printers, that was waaaay back in may.
>
> Done.  I left the default network name as 'openwrt'.
>
>> start it via
>>
>> /etc/init.d/samba3 start
>
> Done.
>
>> 3) Enable it on boot via the web interface
>
> Done.
>
> I put two Windows 7 computers into the OPENWRT workgroup - one on the
> wired LAN, one on the wireless LAN.  Both have their WINS
> configuration set to "NetBIOS over TCP/IP".  Both have been rebooted.
>
> On both computers, The network contains three nodes:
>
> - AD1C (wireless)
> - JJR (wired)
> - OPENWRT (router)
>
> I browse OPENWRT and see the tmp folder.  However, when I try to
> browse \\JJR (from AD1C) or \\AD1C (from JJR), Windows 7 says "Windows
> can not access \\<HOST>"
>
> You also suggested I try browsing by IP address:
>
>  \\the.ip.add.ress\sharename
>
> That actually WORKS!  So why does the IP address work, but the NAME
> (ie. JJR or AD1C) does not?
>
>
> Note that there is another computer on the wired network, it's still
> int the "WORKGROUP" workgroup, and it does *not* show up as a node on
> the network.  This is what I expected, is that what you expect?
>
>
> --
> Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us



-- 
Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert at alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us