Archer c3200 LAN/Workgroup name in samba
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Archer c3200 LAN/Workgroup name in samba
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Hi All
Was wondering if there was a workaround for the settings of the C3200 wifi-router, to allow the defining of the device into a named workgroup, the reason for this is that while under windows the c3200 can be seen and accessed it is now been made part of the Lans workgroup, as such my other linux based pc and devices donot recognise it as being part of my workgroup, but instead it is placed in the "WORKGROUP", making network browsing a pain as you have to navigate out of the main workgroup and into the other to find resources attached to it.
All my other devices including my old adsl router (Asus DSL-AC68U it has a define field for the workgroup/lan name in it's config pages) configuration to allow you to define your workgroup.
What would be ideal is a modification to the LAN section of the c3200's config section to add this option for defining the workgroup, as during adding smb shares to a hdd that's connected to the usb ports already edits the smb.conf file anyways.
Ideas welcome
Andy
Hardware Version :
Firmware Version :
ISP :
Hi All
Was wondering if there was a workaround for the settings of the C3200 wifi-router, to allow the defining of the device into a named workgroup, the reason for this is that while under windows the c3200 can be seen and accessed it is now been made part of the Lans workgroup, as such my other linux based pc and devices donot recognise it as being part of my workgroup, but instead it is placed in the "WORKGROUP", making network browsing a pain as you have to navigate out of the main workgroup and into the other to find resources attached to it.
All my other devices including my old adsl router (Asus DSL-AC68U it has a define field for the workgroup/lan name in it's config pages) configuration to allow you to define your workgroup.
What would be ideal is a modification to the LAN section of the c3200's config section to add this option for defining the workgroup, as during adding smb shares to a hdd that's connected to the usb ports already edits the smb.conf file anyways.
Ideas welcome
Andy
Re:Archer c3200 LAN/Workgroup name in samba
Hi Flying Snow
As the router has samba installed to control the sharing of HDD's, the global section of it's config file holds within it the default ability to set the workgroup name, from what i see of the gpl code for this router it is based on one of the many flavours of linux, maybe debian?
as such adding the option to set a Lan name to the advanced settings LAN section as per my example, would be a matter of adding one input to taht page and having it write it to smb.conf here is an example from a raspberry pi debian install
[CODE][global]
# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = UNICORN
netbios name = Mailer
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
server role = standalone server
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdate$
pam password change = yes
map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes[/CODE]
And this for the admin page:-
Will probably forward to tp-link and ask if possible addition, as it would be worth while.
regards
Andy