[dbigesby]

How do I use the storage link on the WRT350N router with the DD-WRT v24 firmware?

[CaScAdE]

For USB Support try:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17169
For installing Samba:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Optware

With a little customization it will work, no out of the box support right now.

[agent4877]

I’ve been trying to get this working as well .. this is where I am so far.

1) I used Rekoil's custom build on a Linksys WRT350N (4MB flash)

2) Enabled JFFS and disabled Clean JFFS in Administration -> Management

3) I mounted my USB drive as /mnt ->
mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt)

4) make the following directories-> mkdir /mnt/jffs
mkdir /mnt/jffs/opt)

5) mount new jffs and opt directories-> mount /mnt/jffs /jffs
mount /mnt/jffs/opt /opt)
now I have 5Gb of JFFS

6) install samba-> cd /tmp

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/ddwrt/cross/stable/samba2_2.2.12-1_mipsel.ipk

ipkg install samba2_2.2.12-1_mipsel.ipk

7) Here is the problem … now I try to run samba - /jffs/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba start
I get the following error

/jffs/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba: /jffs/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba: 17: /opt/sbin/smbd: not found
Starting nmbd:
/jffs/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba: /jffs/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba: 19: /opt/sbin/nmbd: not found

also if I try to run /opt/sbin/smbd or /opt/sbin/nmbd manually I get -sh: /opt/sbin/smbd: not found or -sh: /opt/sbin/nmbd: not found

the executables do exist in those directories and have the correct permissions
/opt/sbin # ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Aug 13 12:25 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 32768 Aug 13 12:25 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321936 Jan 19 2007 ldconfig
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 875512 Jul 25 05:04 nmbd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2241076 Jul 25 05:04 smbd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1261616 Jul 25 05:04 swa

does anybody know what I did wrong? Or have any suggestions?

[CaScAdE]

did you skip
mount -o bind /jffs/opt /opt
?

[agent4877]

no i didn't skip it .. but one thing to note is i couldn't
mount -o bind /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt ... i had to mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /mnt

[CaScAdE]

hmm...

where did you install all the packages to?

you need to have some stuff in
/opt/lib
and so to get it working. that is why you need the bind mentioned in the wiki.
you have to mount the drive that way. but afterwards you have to bind it to /opt

[Rekoil]

@agent4877,

The WRT350N has 8mb flash ;)

Run "mount /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 /opt" and the errors will go away, then after that run "mount -o bind /opt /jffs/opt".

[agent4877]

that isn't work either .. has anybody been able to get this working? is so can you please provide detailed steps .. thankx in advance

[CaScAdE]

Actually you messed around a lot with your directory mounting here and there... In the end the stuff is not accesible at /opt/sbin/nmbd and stuff...
Hard to explain as I am not a native english speaker, sorry...

In the german forum I posted how I did it... without ipkg and without jffs...

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=103092#103092

I know it is german, but you only need the parts between the lines in red... and the commands are the same in english
This could help you to get the point, hopefully...

[agent4877]

It's still not working for me. Could it be because my drive is not initally empy? after I mount to /opt and go though the steps above I get

[CaScAdE]

plug it to your normal pc and format it with an ext2 filesystem?

since you have Thumbs.db on it I guess it is NTFS or vfat...

[agent4877]

IT WORKS! Thank you!!! .. the problem was it needs to been formatted in ext2 or ext3 .. should have figured.

[ebrusher]

Can you share exactly what you did to get the storage to run. Did you place commands in the gui or telnet.

Did you make a startup script. I am new to linux and just want to make sure I make the right commands in the right place.

Thanks for your time.

[agent4877]