Mounting NAS on Asuswrt-merlin and using USB ASUS tools for downloads

[gg35]

Hi all,

I am newbies here on ASUS Merlin WRT. I ve just receive an AC66u router and i play with it

I am tying to find a way to use ASUS download tools GUI to perform downloads on a NAS that I already mounted on the router BusyBox. Using SSH or CMD comand, it is easy to mount it as CIFS but there are several questions I can't anwsers :

- Is there a way, by modifying router conf files for example, to display mounted NAS as the USB drives and to use it by the ASUS download GUI?

- Is there examples on how to modify scripts on the router to auto mount a nas on each reboot of the router ?

Regards

 

[RMerlin]

automount can be done through a user script (see the README on how to use them). For this case, I would probably put it in services-start so to ensure that your network is already up and running. Keep in mind that you won't have to escape slashes in the script (so // instead of //// for example).

There's no real way to display mounted shares on the webui unfortunately.

I might eventually implement CIFS/SMB mounting on the webui, at which point I would report mount status and space usage on the Sysinfo page. No promise tho, got too much on my plate already.

 

[gg35]

Thank you very much I will check how to use user script in services-start to auto mount my NAS.

And is there a way to display the mounted NAS as a shared device attached to the router like it is working for usb drive mounted on the router ? I mean not in the webui but just shown on the local network side for the moment.
I mounted it tmp/mnt but it doen't appears as shared device like usb drive already mounted too.
What are the conf/setting files to modify ?

 

[RMerlin]

Thank you very much I will check how to use user script in services-start to auto mount my NAS.

And is there a way to display the mounted NAS as a shared device attached to the router like it is working for usb drive mounted on the router ? I mean not in the webui but just shown on the local network side for the moment.
I mounted it tmp/mnt but it doen't appears as shared device like usb drive already mounted too.
What are the conf/setting files to modify ?

USB devices are handled internally by the firmware, I doubt you could manage to "fake" it through just mount points.