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CIFS not connecting

Do you have file sharing enabled?

What about the windows firewall?

what should I allow in the firewall?

reply to atomicrabbit
I just double checked, and have CIFS working on my version of Tomato firmware. You may want to try the Tomato linked here - »www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showt···?t=60185

While the primary purpose of the Tomato in the link above is to add support for USB devices, it does adds a heck of a lot of features to Tomato and cleans up a lot of code.
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reply to joako
jaoko, i disabled the firewall, made no difference. Still can't connect.

I've verified that I have file sharing working properly. I've tried connecting to my computer from another

@pandora, I'll look into that. Thanks for the link.

I assume you read their FAQ?

I just pulled it up Googling.... good luck.

* Use an IP address. ex: \\192.168.1.5\share YES
* Use a regular account that requires username/password instead of a guest account. YES
* Make sure the account has read/write permission. YES
* Make sure NAT Loopback is enabled in Advanced/Firewall. YES, it's set to Forward Only, but I tried setting it to All, and it still didn't work

reply to B
suggestions please :|

sorry for the late reply... nothing in the logs on my computer.

Use wireshark or tcpdump to verify you're not seeing any CIFS traffic from the router. If still no, the only thing I can think of is a routing issue, like if your local network is 192.168.1.* and the WAN port has gotten an address in the same block.

I know at one point I had tomato working with CIFS.
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reply to atomicrabbit

CIFS share on Tomato

Are you using a domain?

It is a workgroup, not a domain. The connection works with or without the workgroup (domain) entered.

The connection you see in the snapshot is to a Buffalo Tech Linkstation Live with an account and password established for my Linksys router. The Linkstation I believe is using Samba to provide NAS on my LAN. The version of Tomato I am using is from my first post in this thread.

The Linkstation has a static IP set by my router based on its MAC address.
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It couldn't be something as silly as that the share name has to actually be "share"? That's the only commonality I see so far...

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The first share is to a Buffalo Tech Linkstation Live NAS device which runs SAMBA under Linux. The 2nd share is to a Windows Vista PC. Both work fine.

Edit to add: The user and password on the Windows PC are placebo, they do not reflect any real Windows user account. I just plug in a name and password to keep Tomato happy.
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reply to wierdo
I cannot seem to get WireShark to work on windows 7. I downloaded Wireshark portable and I keep getting this error:

Dumpcap has stopped working

and then when WireShark starts, it says:
The NPF driver isn't running. You may have trouble capturing or listing interfaces.

The Event Viewer details say this:

Faulting application name: dumpcap.exe, version: 1.2.0.28753, time stamp: 0x4a3726f3
Faulting module name: libglib-2.0-0.dll, version: 2.20.3.0, time stamp: 0x4a23951f
Exception code: 0x40000015
Fault offset: 0x00048416
Faulting process id: 0x1750
Faulting application start time: 0x01c9fb80fa56918c
Faulting application path: C:\PortableApps\WiresharkPortable\App\Wireshark\dumpcap.exe
Faulting module path: C:\PortableApps\WiresharkPortable\App\Wireshark\libglib-2.0-0.dll
Report Id: 3957c161-6774-11de-8f9b-0013d3cc64bd
 

Nevermind, I figured it out, it has something to do with the beta version of WinPcap (v4.1 beta5); it doesn't seem to work with Windows 7. Although the previous stable version (v4.0.2) seems to work fine with Windows 7... go figure.

@wierdo, what would I be looking for in WireShark? would it specifically say "CIFS" somewhere?

You've gone from a Linksys alternative firmware question to a Microsoft beta operating system question. It is helpful to run a production OS when trying to get help for features.
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