Network Place (Samba) Share on LAN only

[Skidplate]

Thanks RMerlin, I just thought I should follow up on this. I didn't see a spike in my internet usage from my ISP, so this must have been internal traffic. Maybe something to do with my backup and I read the graph wrong?? Anyhow, I'm not going to worry about it any longer.

I've been browsing the forum and there are many useful things you've done for this router than I'm looking forward to playing with.

Much appreciated!

Regards,
Rod

 

[3dguru]

Still 445 closed for me...

The Samba issue only affected the RT-AC56U and RT-AC68U owners, and was resolved by Asus in 374_4561 (if my memory is correct - their first attempt at fixing it didn't work).

Hi,
I just bought RT-AC56U and installed RT-AC56U_3.0.0.4_374.40_0. Installed nice and smoothly. I am an old DD-WRT and OpenWRT user with Asus RT-N10+

Have a dual-wan installation with one cable and one DSL.

The odd thing is the port 445 still shows as closed (not dropped) for the PPP connection. I tried that connection on WAN and LAN, primary and secondary. Only PPP seems to be effected.

Also is there a way we can configure/change WAN, LAN and VLANs on Merllin like in OpenWRT? /etc/config/network

I really loved UCI and multiwan support on OpenWRT. I was easily switching configuration ON/OFF remotely in just 2 seconds, AsusWRT needs lots of restart time on every change.

Thanks in advance

 

[RMerlin]

Hi,
I just bought RT-AC56U and installed RT-AC56U_3.0.0.4_374.40_0. Installed nice and smoothly. I am an old DD-WRT and OpenWRT user with Asus RT-N10+

Have a dual-wan installation with one cable and one DSL.

The odd thing is the port 445 still shows as closed (not dropped) for the PPP connection. I tried that connection on WAN and LAN, primary and secondary. Only PPP seems to be effected.

Dropped or rejected are both as secure.

Also is there a way we can configure/change WAN, LAN and VLANs on Merllin like in OpenWRT? /etc/config/network

Router configuration is entirely stored in nvram rather than in a flat filesystem. You can manipulate the nvram content using the "nvram" command.

 

[3dguru]

Dropped or rejected are both as secure.

Yes, I understand, but I cannot see it being rejected in iptables, and in my cable connection it shows as dropped... why are they different? Isn't dual wan supposed to receive same firewall rules for each wan connection as default?

ifconfig shows 3 vlans.
Probably vlan1 is associated with ppp1
vlan2 has 169.254.. i don't know which interface causes that.
Cable in vlan3.



Thanks.

 

[RMerlin]

Yes, I understand, but I cannot see it being rejected in iptables, and in my cable connection it shows as dropped... why are they different? Isn't dual wan supposed to receive same firewall rules for each wan connection as default?

ifconfig shows 3 vlans.
Probably vlan1 is associated with ppp1
vlan2 has 169.254.. i don't know which interface causes that.
Cable in vlan3.



Thanks.

Some ISPs do block SMB ports, so that traffic might possibly be dropped before it reaches you.

 

[3dguru]

Some ISPs do block SMB ports, so that traffic might possibly be dropped before it reaches you.

Yes, the cable seems to be dropping those ports. Thanks.

Where can I find a good documentation about nvram, specifically for our build, if possible.

 

[RMerlin]

Yes, the cable seems to be dropping those ports. Thanks.

Where can I find a good documentation about nvram, specifically for our build, if possible.

There isn't any available, since this is all low-level stuff that can change at any moment. As a starting point, make a complete text dump of it:

nvram show | sort > /tmp/nvram.txt

Then take a look at it. A lot of settings (such as dhcp_staticlist) will be kinda straightforward to see. The only kind of documentation available will be the source code itself.