Template:Networking rutos manual network shares

Summary

The Network Shares section is used to manage Network-attached storage (NAS) such as USB drives and hard drives. The router supports the following file system architectures:

FAT
FAT32
NTFS

General

Samba

Samba is a software solution for using the Server Message Block (SMB) networking protocol, which provides shared file access between nodes on a computer network. Refer to the figures and table below for more information about Samba configuration.

field name	value	description
Enable	off \| on; Default: off	Toggles Samba ON or OFF
Hostname	Default: Router_Share	Name of the Samba server
Description	Default: Router Share	Short server description
Workgroup	Default: WORKGROUP	Name of the server's workgroup
Share home-directies	off \| on; Default: on	Allow system users to reach their home directories via network shares

By entering Edit Template window you can edit the template that is used for generating the samba configuration. This is the content of the file '/etc/samba/smb.conf.template' from which your samba configuration will be generated. Values enclosed by pipe symbols ('|') should not be changed. They get their values from the 'General Settings' tab.

Summary

General

Samba

Shared directories