Samba 2.2.12

It looks like Samba 3 is too big for all "swapless" routers. For this reason I have prepared Samba 2 packages with Samba Web Admin Tool which will ease config and admin for samba newcomers. SWAT interface looks like:

Installation and running samba 2 is done out of the box by the following commands:

/opt/bin/ipkg update
/opt/bin/ipkg remove samba
/opt/bin/ipkg install samba2
/opt/bin/ipkg install xinetd
/opt/etc/init.d/S10xinetd start
/opt/etc/init.d/S80samba start

Edit /opt/etc/xinetd.d/swat :

find the line: only_from = localhost 192.168.1.0/24

and change the subnet to that of your own network, eg. I use 192.168.15.* so I changed it to 192.168.15.0/24

Save and quit editor, and restart xinetd: /opt/etc/init.d/S10xinetd restart

Point your browser to http://YOUR.I.P.ADRESS:901/ to administer samba, and only for openwrt: replace "admin" with "root".

Running Samba2 with xinetd, not as Daemon

It is possible to run the whole samba package on demand with xinetd.

You first have to prevent samba running as daemon: rm /opt/etc/init.d/S80samba

Two files are needed to start the daemons with xinetd:

First file: /opt/etc/xinetd.d/netbios-ns

with following content:

service netbios-ns
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = dgram
        protocol        = udp
        port            = 137
        user            = admin
        wait            = yes
        only_from       = localhost YOUR.PRIVATE.SUB.NET/24
        server          = /opt/sbin/nmbd
}

Second file: /opt/etc/xinetd.d/netbios-ssn

with following content:

service netbios-ssn
{
        disable         = no
        socket_type     = stream
        protocol        = tcp
        port            = 139
        user            = admin
        wait            = no
        only_from       = localhost YOUR.PRIVATE.SUB.NET/24
        server          = /opt/sbin/smbd
}

Edit both file for your IP (on openwrt replace also user "admin" with "root" and change server path).

Only for openwrt you need to do this:

echo "netbios-ns 137/udp" >> /etc/services 
echo "netbios-ssn 139/tcp" >> /etc/services

and restart xinetd.

Runing samba on FLASH (USB stick) memory

To minimize FLASH wear, redirect all logs and temporary databases to /tmp/samba directories. One way to do is to create startup script like

#!/bin/sh
if [ -n "`pidof smbd`" ] ; then
    echo "Stopping smbd:"
    killall smbd
fi

if [ -n "`pidof nmbd`" ] ; then
    echo "Stopping nmbd:"
    killall nmbd
fi

#sleep 2

echo "Starting smbd:"
if [ ! -d /tmp/samba ]; then
        mkdir /tmp/samba
        mkdir /tmp/samba/log
        rm -rf /opt/var/log/samba
        ln -s /tmp/samba/log /opt/var/log/samba
        rm -rf /opt/var/samba
        ln -s  /tmp/samba /opt/var/samba
fi
/opt/sbin/smbd -D;
echo "Starting nmbd:"
/opt/sbin/nmbd -D;