I am a newbie. I am installing this firmware since I want to use my NTFS Seagate external drive as a NAS with the USB connection on the WNR35000L router. However, I don't know the proper way to set it up. I want to set up the drive to be seen as a SAMBA drive, not FTP drive. It doesn't seem to work. My USB drive doesn't seem to be even connected. Anyone know how to make it work. Here is the screen shot of strange NAS screen with no text whatsoever.
Strange NAS screen.
August 28, 2010 5:01 PM
change the theme to something else. the elegant theme is missing a html tag.
August 28, 2010 5:30 PM
Apparently it was black on black. I just use the screenshot to guess what the labels were. I set up but it still didn't work. My drive was still not recognized or connected. My drive is ntfs format. Can anyone help? Will the tomato firmware give me what I needed? Thanks.
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August 29, 2010 4:53 PM
The black on black bug shows only with safari and konqueror with webkit enabled. This will is fixed in the next release.
Regarding the ntfs problem, what messages are shown under:
Services->USB->Disk Info
If it is empty, it means your drive is not recognized at all. Can happen for example if a drive is connected through a hub without extra power supply on the bug.
August 30, 2010 7:12 AM
Hello Kong,
I was using Safari which explained the bug. Thank you.
As for disk drive issue, the Disk Info area was empty. I figured that the drive was not recognized since the light on my drive didn't light up. I was using the Seagate portable hard drive, without external power supply. It was powered by USB port. I also tried the External Desktop USB drive which was powered by external source, but neither was recognized. What do you mean by "a drive is connected through a hub without extra power supply on the bug"? I sorry that I didn't follow the "hub" and "on the bug" parts. Thanks.
August 30, 2010 1:21 PM
I did the 30/30/30 before but will do it again tonight to see if it is fixed then.
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August 31, 2010 4:22 AM
If the light on your drive does not light up, it could be that you deactivated the usb port, see:
http://tips.desipro.de/2010/08/30/usb-drive-not-recognized-wnr3500l/
August 31, 2010 7:19 AM
Thank you. I got it to work. However, I have another question. Now that I got the drive lighting up, the disk info filled with information about the drive, I don't know how to set up my computer to see the drive. I have a MAC and Ubuntu machine. I guess I go to Connect to Server setting, select the Window Share drive setting. However, which server path should I enter to find the drive? I tried mnt\ in the path and didn't find any. It gave me the samba:\\mnt\ can not be found. Please help. Thanks.
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September 1, 2010 2:56 AM
Server path is:
RouterIP + Sharename
e.g.:
Konqueror/Dolphin:
smb://192.168.1.1/Public
Windows:
\\192.168.1.1\Public
Linux Fstab:
//192.168.0.1/Public /share cifs username=guest,password=guest
September 2, 2010 8:57 AM
updated: September 2, 2010 8:59 AM
It works wonderful. So everything should be stored under /Public folder in order for other machine to see. However, I keep having more question since I can't find the good Q&A, will I be able to connect more than one USB drive/Printer thru the use of powered USB hub? If so, how would the server path be set up to see multiple USB drive? The IP address 192.168.1.1 is only point to the router, but not how to see multiple drive. Thank you very much.
Also, will the firmware able to put the unused USB drive to sleep mode to conserve energy when it is not in use for some period of time? I like my Mac putting my external USB drive to sleep/light off when it is not in use. When I start to access the drive, the drive came back on and allow access. Just a thought. Thanks.
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September 2, 2010 2:03 PM
Yes using two drives is possible. Through the custom configuration field it is possible to specify different share directorys with different source dirs(mountpoint of drive 1, mountpoint of drive 2)
I have to create a tutorial soon that shows some advanced samba configurations.
By default dd-wrt does not spin down usb drives. Some external drives however do this own their own.
September 7, 2010 6:43 PM
updated: September 7, 2010 6:53 PM
Hello, I got a Mac and in Finder, I found under shared, it has the smb://dd-wrt/Public drive. However, it is not the drive it found, with almost no space on it. Under USB, the disk info shows actual drive with correct capacity. Did I missing something else? thanks.
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September 8, 2010 3:46 AM
Did you enable JFFS2?
If you login via ssh or telnet and run command:
mount
you should see all mountpoints and where those 5.8MB come from.
September 8, 2010 8:43 AM
I actual mounted under /mnt
When I ran terminal and type in mount, I got these
MacMini:~ tuannguyen$ mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted)
/dev/disk1s1 on /Volumes/Media Server (fusefs, local, nodev, nosuid, synchronous)
//Tuan%20Nguyen@dd-wrt/Public on /Volumes/Public (smbfs, nodev, nosuid, mounted by tuannguyen)
/dev/disk2s1 on /Volumes/FreeAgent Drive (fusefs, local, nodev, nosuid, synchronous)
It looks like the 5.8MB is from the router itself.
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September 8, 2010 5:38 PM
The above seems to be the output on your mac:-)
Anyways, if you mounted the usb drive on /mnt then the default public share config will not work, either use /jffs or create a custom samba configuration that points to mount.
If you mount to /jffs you do not have to enable JFFS2 feature. Here is a little tutorial that shows how to create a custom config:
http://tips.desipro.de/2010/09/09/dd-wrt-samba-custom-configuration-kong-mod/
September 13, 2010 1:41 PM
Thank you. It finally works. Now, if I can only set up with multiple USB drives, and set up so I can access the drives remotely from public computer (ie. work computer), it would be great.
September 14, 2010 9:56 AM
I have been testing the USB drive. I read the data from it with no issue at all. However, whenever I try to write or delete, it would give me the error. In the set up I set "Readonly" option in Disable mode. I checked the drive info in my finder and the drive access was included both read and write access. Still I can not add new file or delete old file from the drive. Did I miss something else? Thanks.
The error window shows the below. Thanks.
"The Finder can not complete the operation because some data in "" could not be read or written (Error code -36)"
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September 16, 2010 5:38 PM
fantoma said: Thank you. It finally works. Now, if I can only set up with multiple USB drives, and set up so I can access the drives remotely from public computer (ie. work computer), it would be great.
It depends, what kind of connection you have. If you have a 100MBit connection and you want to transfer large files FTP is the only way.
If this not the case and transfer speed is not an issue I would use WinSCP + SSH Key this way you have the ultimate security, the whole transfers are encrypted and if you Disable password logins and use Authorized Keys, you are also protected from brute force attacks.
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