USB Application Accounts messed up RT-AC86U

[ColinTaylor]

At long last, I just tried to update entware, but failed.
And after restoring a backup carrying that bug, samba shares stopped working.

What sort of data were you restoring?

 

[bidh]

I restored the backup from backupmon.

amtm.tar.gz
jffs.tar.gz
nvram.cfg
routerfw.txt

Now, I can't say how the bug happened, but the oldest backup I have from 19/12/2024 already have the samba users inverted.
The samba users were correctly set the 24/10/Oct 24, 2024.

 

[ColinTaylor]

Ah, I understand now. Well at least you got it working in the end.

 

[bidh]

By curiosity, I just restored today's backup and the samba users were switched again. So I guess something is going on with BACKUPMON and my router about the SAMBA users.
*edit* Since the settings survives reboots I thought the variables were stored correctly.

 

[ColinTaylor]

By curiosity, I just restored today's backup and the samba users were switched again. So I guess something is going on with BACKUPMON and my router about the SAMBA users.

This is nothing to do with BACKUPMON. It's a bug in the way that Asus stores the nvram variable.

 

[Sumanji]

This does not appear to work reliably anymore. Try this instead:

nvram set acc_num=1
nvram set acc_list="<admin>password"
nvram set acc_webdavproxy="admin>1"
nvram commit

Where admin is the name of the account you use to log into the router's webUI and password is it's password.

Now refresh the Samba page in the webUI. Hopefully you will have just the admin account showing there and you can now start adding back the additional Samba accounts and permissions.

If you have problems using the Samba admin account in particular try changing your admin password to something different in Administration - System > Router Login Password and then changing it back again.

Thanks for posting this - dumb question, where exactly do I type these commands?

I'm having the same problem and would love to fix it!

 

[bennor]

Thanks for posting this - dumb question, where exactly do I type these commands?

Enable SSH (LAN access only) in the router's GUI (Administration > System page), then use an SSH client to access the router and issue those commands via the SSH command line interface. Putty is one such popular Windows SSH client.

Download PuTTY: latest release (0.83)

www.chiark.greenend.org.uk

 

[Sumanji]

Solved!

Thanks @bennor and @ColinTaylor