- first check the name of the external disk with df, here it was /dev/sdc1

 [root@MyBook ~]# df Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 2.8G 315M 2.4G 12% / /dev/root 2.8G 315M 2.4G 12% / /dev/md3 950M 20M 882M 3% /var /dev/md4 455G 75G 380G 17% /shares/internal /dev/ram1 1003K 448K 555K 45% /mnt/ramdisk /dev/sdc1 459G 70G 367G 16% /shares/external/WD-5000AAV-External/Partition-1 

- then unmount, format and mount the disc

 [root@MyBook ~]# umount /dev/sdc1 [root@MyBook ~]# mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdc1 [root@MyBook ~]# mount /dev/sdc1 /shares/external/WD-5000AAV-External/Partition-1 

to format with ext3 filesystem please use the command mkfs.ext3 instead of mkfs.ext2. Do all commands as root.

Hope it helps,
JpgOrganizer

MBWE II, 2x 500 GB
Firmware 01.01.18
Raid 1
Hacks: SSH, spindown

i have tried kbd \ console-tools but couldn't compile them
tried to cross-compile console-tools but couldn't make install (had to libtoolize and change the source code…)

on make install:

 ... fontstruct.c: In function `read_simple_font': fontstruct.c:45: error: structure has no member named `_fileno' make[1]: *** [fontstruct.lo] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/shares/internal/PUBLIC/tmp/console-tools-0.2.3/lib' make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 

replace your /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf file with one of the following, depending if you had activated php or not :
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/web-server/lighttpd_withoutphp.conf
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/web-server/lighttpd_withphp.conf

==> this will disable AccessBook, but will keep your WebServer configured.

To remove AccessBook files,
remove
/shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Welcome/Main.pl
and
/shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Welcome/AccessBook

That's all. you hae totally removed AccessBook.

Regards,

What is wrong?

I really want read/write with the external, its pretty useless for me otherwise.

Ta
Stu

 MyBookWorld AFP _afpovertcp._tcp. local 548 MyBookWorld AFP server 

Once this has been added just restart the mDNS daemon.

And get the following error when entering the above command:
cannot access ‘/opt/etc/init.d/avahi’: Not a directory

What am I doing wrong?

eg

1. default value.

Port 2333
#Port 22

then you need comment out lines in /etc/services

#ssh 22/tcp # SSH Remote Login Protocol
#ssh 22/udp # SSH Remote Login Protocol

of cource, you have to do port forward port 2333 to your NAS

good luck

I use squid on my home mybook with port forwarding over ssh to access Pandora streaming radio and my twonky server (also running on the mybook) when i'm out of the country, and for browsing while i'm at work.

It works fine for one user and when i guestimate the load by looking at "top", then the combined Squid and SSHD cpu usage can peak at around 50-60%, but generally runs around 30% CPU, and 40% memory.

I'm not sure how well it would scale to multiple users.

But having said that I decided to do some testing from two systems here and I have two Pandora sessions streaming through the Mybook and I'm downloading a video from my twonky server and the my book CPU utilisation is between 50-30%.

in my ADSL-model/router I forwarded TCP port 4234 (external/WAN) to port 22 (internal/LAN).
To access the drive, I use

 ssh mydrive.dyndns.org -l root -p 4234 

That did the trick.

However changing the port# in these files causes a connection refused error… I am stumbed… So any suggestions/instructions are welcome to get this fixed, because I am tired to see all the script kiddies hitting my MBWE…

I want to install DCTC client (DirectConnect client) to my MBWE. But the automake is not working corretly. I get an error:

 [root@gaia dctc-0.85.9]# ./autogen.sh **Error**: You must have `automake' installed. You can get it from: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ 

Automake 1.10-2 is installed with optware, but it needs perl. How can I config the automake to use the installed perl?

 [root@gaia dctc-0.85.9]# /usr/local/bin/perl -v This is perl, v5.8.8 built for armv5tejl-linux 

Can anybody help me? Thanks!

on linksys router, on port forward tab, put XYZ name, and then port 443 twice.

create account on dyndns and setup to router.

from out of network, you are able to connect using:

https://DYNDNSADDRESS:443

don't try it on local network, it is not working. you dont need this to connect on local network, right?! ;)

p.s. the guide on port forward is so lame. i have a licence to PFConfig, but before that the guide seemed to be to minimal and useless…

- Now, photos appears sorted in photogallery
- Some special characters (') are now accepted in photogalleries
- Some files like Thumbs.db or .Ds_Store are hidden
- A little correction in Special Actions. This will add the Execute sh scripts and untar feature…

You can update your existing AccessBook Installation by executing the following command :

 wget http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/accessbook/Main.pl -O /shares/internal/PUBLIC/WWW/Welcome/Main.pl 

Regards,

This will wipe your root partition while keeping the data in /shares/internal and /var.

I have gratefully updated my WDWE2 with 1 TB, added some features, some servers, etc… Now, as I know which servers and software packages I prefer, I'd like to start over.

Is there any easy way to do so? Where can I find the instructions for that?

Thanks for your help,

gamzesz

Best regards,
Alex.

There's one thing I've noticed about optware packages that seems to be worth mentioning. "Segmentation fault", "C++ compiler cannot create executables" problems, have been reported a number of times, I had some unpleasant experience with them myself, even though my .bashrc file is properly configured to use packages in /opt. So, what I've noticed is that it appears to occur whenever you install packages that require overwriting files of some other already installed one(s). Removing /opt dir and installing optware anew does the trick but I wonder whether it's a mybook issue or an optware issue?

Thanks again,
Alex

CUPS 1.3.9 is installled in my MyBook WEII. I get a ‘application/postscript’ format incompatible error when I try to print a test page. What's the problem?

 configure: Will search for js (spidermonkey) headers in /usr/include/js checking /usr/include/js/jsapi.h usability... no checking /usr/include/js/jsapi.h presence... no checking for /usr/include/js/jsapi.h... no configure: error: jsapi.h not found in requested location /usr/include/js 

I have compiled and installed Spidermonkey. jsapi.h does exist in /usr/include/js.

 [root@MyBookWorld /]# cd /usr/include/js/ [root@MyBookWorld js]# ls jsapi.h jscompat.h jsexn.h jslock.h jsparse.h jsstddef.h jsarena.h jsconfig.h jsfile.h jslong.h jsprf.h jsstr.h jsarray.h jscpucfg.h jsfun.h jsmath.h jsprvtd.h jstypes.h jsatom.h jsdate.h jsgc.h jsnum.h jspubtd.h jsutil.h jsbit.h jsdbgapi.h jshash.h jsobj.h jsregexp.h jsxdrapi.h jsbool.h jsdhash.h jsinterp.h jsopcode.h jsscan.h jsxml.h jsclist.h jsdtoa.h jsiter.h jsosdep.h jsscope.h prmjtime.h jscntxt.h jsemit.h jslibmath.h jsotypes.h jsscript.h resource.h 

The libs have been installed into /usr/lib/js.

I had installed the precompiled binary frm http://www.jpkessler.de/mybookupnp/index.html (Thanks JPK, it worked real nice :) but I couldn't get the scripting to work (at all).

Any ideas how to get spidermonkey working?

The command to stop samba was

/etc/init.d/samba.sh stop

then copy the 2 files in
/usr/local/wdc

then rename as follow :

 mv kill-idle-fcgi.sh.source in kill-idle-fcgi.sh 

then add a schedule line in the crontab : (/etc/crontabs/root)

 1,11,21,31,41,51 * * * * /usr/local/wdc/kill-idle-fcgi.sh 

The following are the versions of the dependencies (that I am aware of) that I have installed, they are also the current versions in optware as of this post. I would like those of you, who currently have CUPS up and running to post the output of ldd /usr/sbin/cupsd as well as the versions of the packages listed (the packages names as listed in optware will be named):

 [root@MyBookWorld~]# ldd /usr/sbin/cupsd libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x4000d000) [zlib - 1.2.3-3]*** libssl.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 (0x40028000) [openssl - 0.9.7m-4] libcrypto.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (0x4005c000) [openssl - 0.9.7m-4] libldap-2.3.so.0 => /opt/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0 (0x40153000) [openldap-libs - 2.3.43-1]*** libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0x4018e000) [cups - 1.3.9-1] libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x401c2000) [libpth - 2.0.7-2] libm.so.0 => /lib/libm.so.0 (0x401dd000) [?no idea?] libcrypt.so.0 => /lib/libcrypt.so.0 (0x401f9000) [libgcrypt - 1.2.4-1] libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40215000) gcc 3.4.2 *NOT optware* libc.so.0 => /lib/libc.so.0 (0x40226000) ver 1.0 firmware libdl.so.0 => /lib/libdl.so.0 (0x40280000) [?no idea?] liblber-2.3.so.0 => /opt/lib/liblber-2.3.so.0 (0x4028a000) [libdb - 4.2.52-3]*** libsasl2.so.2 => /opt/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x4029d000) [cyrus-sasl-libs - 2.1.22-2]*** libresolv.so.0 => /lib/libresolv.so.0 (0x402bb000) [c-ares - 1.5.2-2]*** ld-uClibc.so.0 => /lib/ld-uClibc.so.0 (0x40000000) ignore 

An easy way of determining the versions would be to:

 #ipkg list_installed 

which should yield something like this:

 adduser - 1.10.3-1 - a multi-call binary for login and user account administration apr - 1.3.2-1 - apr-util - 1.3.2-1 - avahi - 0.6.23-2 - A system for multicast DNS service discovery, an implementation of Zeroconf. bzip2 - 1.0.5-1 - Very high-quality data compression program c-ares - 1.5.2-2 - C library that performs DNS requests and name resolves asynchronously cdrtools - 2.01-4 - low-level CD recording tools: cdrecord, mkisofs, etc. cups - 1.3.9-1 - Common Unix Printing System cups-doc - 1.3.9-1 - Common Unix Printing System documentation. cups-driver-gutenprint - 5.1.7-1 - CUPS driver from Gutenprint. cups-pdf - 2.4.6-2 - CUPS-PDF provides a PDF Writer backend to CUPS. This can cyrus-sasl-libs - 2.1.22-2 - Provides client or server side authentication (see RFC 2222). dbus - 1.1.1-3 - D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. e2fslibs - 1.41.0-1 - expat - 2.0.1-1 - XML Parser library finch - 2.5.2-1 - Finch is a console-based IM program that lets you sign on to AIM, findutils - 4.2.32-1 - File finding utilities findutils-doc - 4.2.32-1 - Documentation for file finding utilities fontconfig - 2.5.0-0 - Font configuration library freetype - 2.3.6-1 - Free truetype library gconv-modules - 2.2.5-7 - Provides gconv modules missing from the firmware. gdbm - 1.8.3-2 - GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing. gettext - 0.14.5-2 - Set of tools for producing multi-lingual messages ghostscript - 8.63-1 - An interpreter for the PostScript (TM) language glib - 2.12.13-1 - gnutls - 2.4.2-2 - GNU Transport Layer Security Library. libcurl - 7.19.0-2 - libdaemon - 0.13-1 - A lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons. libdb - 4.2.52-3 - Berkeley DB Libraries libgcrypt - 1.2.4-1 - GNU cryptography libray, needed by gnutls libgpg-error - 1.4-1 - Error handling library for libgcrypt libiconv - 1.11-2 - Converts between character encodings. libijs - 0.35-1 - IJS raster image transport protocol libjpeg - 6b-2 - collection of jpeg tools libpng - 1.2.33-1 - Portable Network Graphics Libraries libpth - 2.0.7-2 - Pth is a very portable POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix libsigc++ - 2.0.18-1 - libsigc++ implements a typesafe callback system for standard C++. libstdc++ - 6.0.3-6 - Standard C++ library, needed for dynamically linked C++ programs libtasn1 - 1.5-1 - ASN.1 structure parser library. libtiff - 3.8.2-1 - Tag Image File Format Libraries libtonnent - 0.12.2-1 - libusb - 0.1.12-1 - Library for interfacing to the USB subsystem. libxml2 - 2.6.32-1 - libxslt - 1.1.24-1 - An XML Stylesheet processor based on libxml2 lighttpd - 1.4.19-5 - mlocate - 0.15-1 - A merginging locate program to find files fast nano - 2.1.4-1 - ncurses - 5.6-3 - ncursesw - 5.6-2 - neon - 0.28.3-1 - an HTTP and WebDAV client library, with a C interface openldap-libs - 2.3.43-1 - Open Lightweight Directory Access Protocol openssl - 0.9.7m-4 - Openssl provides the ssl implementation in libraries libcrypto and libssl pcre - 7.8-1 - Perl-compatible regular expression library php - 5.2.6-2 - The php scripting language php-curl - 5.2.6-2 - libcurl extension for php php-fcgi - 5.2.6-1 - The php scripting language, built as an fcgi module proftpd - 1.3.1-4 - Highly configurable FTP server with SSL-TLS python - 2.5-1 - This is a package that sets up the default python. python25 - 2.5.2-2 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language. readline - 5.2-2 - The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use rtonnent - 0.8.0-1 - sane-backends - 1.0.19+cvs20080315-3 - SANE is a universal scanner interface screen - 4.0.3-2 - A screen manager that supports multiple logins on single terminal sqlite - 3.6.1-1 - svn - 1.5.2-1 - termcap - 1.3.1-2 - Terminal emulation library tranz - 1.33-2 - unrar - 3.7.8-1 - unrar is an application that can decompress files and archives unzip - 5.52-3 - A (de)compression library for the ZIP format usbutils - 0.73-3 - USB enumeration utilities wakelan - 1.1-2 - send the magic wakeup package over the LAN xmlrpc-c - 1.11.00-3 - A library providing modular implementation of XML-RPC for C and C++. zlib - 1.2.3-3 - zlib is a library implementing the 'deflate' compression system. Successfully terminated. 

Thank you,
~linuxentangled~

I am using a NAT router which is good from the sound of it. However, I am port forwading through the router on port 22. I thought this was the only way to access the drive from 'outside' my home network.

Most of these are mitigated if you are using a router with NAT (i.e. you have not forwarded your ports) and you have set up strong passwords for webinterface and filesharing users and the root account.

Just a final question…

Am I right in thinking that the only 'areas of mybookworld you can log onto are the web access on port 80 and the root on port 22. In other words, I now have good, long passwords set for web admin panel and root, but should I be concerned about anyone logging in anywhere else without my knowledge ?

Thanks agina for help with the first poblem. It's easy when you know how :)

The program you should install on your Windows machine is PuTTY. Use this to connect to your machine then type:

 # su # passwd 

Please post back if this is not clear.

You have to use a 5-8 chars password with mix case (it does not let you use all caps or all lower case letters).

That's all. Since then, you should use the new password to connec to YOUR book. :)

You can use adduser to create new users if you want.

Greetings to everyone. I am something of a noob to Linux so I apologise for my ignorance.

I have followed the steps on activating SSH, and consequently I have been able to connect to mybookworld using a suitable client (CuteFTP Pro) and I can access the root drive and every directory from their. This way I can upload and download files, create folders and do everything I need over the internet.

However, this is where the problems lies. The only credentials with which I can log in are user = root and password = root. This means that anyone else who uses these credentials can also access my drive from anywhere on the internet !!
I can find no mention in the hacks as to how to change these login details to something more secure.

How do I change these login details, or am I going about this completely the wrong way ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Can anyone please help me.

I'll be using these images, and am trying to consider the benefits of the two RAID options. Anyone have any experience with they would like to share regarding either RAID 0 or RAID 1?

If somebody has tried to compile it previously, it would be great to have the binaries.
Thanks for your answer, I will read the post carefully and see if I decide to try.

One way this may happen if is you gave all your files the execute flag, some samba implementations interpret the execute flag as indicating a "hidden file", or on directories it marks them as "browsable".

Do you have ssh access? Have you run any chmod a+x commands recently?

I personnally use a totally different approach for saving memory:
You may have noticed that if you kill a fastcgi process, it is respawned on demand by lighttpd…
==> i have written a script that kills fastcgi processes that are idle for more than 60 mn…
when you want to use the shared storage Manager, Lighttpd will spawn on demand the wanted perl processes…
after 60mn of idle process, the process is killed back…

You can test my pre-release version of the WebServer Feature Pack which includes this feature,
with a graphic user interface that allows you to choose which process will be "On Demand" or "Preloaded".

Install the following feature pack, using the Feature Pack Manager of the Web server tutorial…
Feature Pack URL :
http://mybookworld.wikidot.com/local--files/featurepacks/Web_Server.tar

Go to the Web Server Menu, click "Memory Mode"
Install , then choose "ondemand" or "preloaded", depending on your needs

Could you please give me some feedback, so that i can include it directly in the standard installation of the WebServer Tutorial ?

Teinturman
MBWE , 500 GB
Firmware 01.01.18
Hacks: SSH, WebServer,vsftp, AccessBook, Mycheck, cups, openvpn, nzbget

How to make 'windows log in script' to map network drive?

instead of using patch file.

I'm using a batch file that runs on windows start up; and would like to use a 'windows log in script' instead

Mapping network drive command: net use z: \\192.168.1.1\public

Regards,

You'll need to gcc

Have a go and learn to handle linux. It's fun :o)

I created an update site with official WD 02.00.18 firmware ( http://cache.websupport.wdc.com/wdgxnc-02.00.18.wdg ) . It resets all things. Finally I "re-hacked" the ssh access.

My firmware reset site is available on http://cyb.4242.hu/mybook/firmware.php .

(Thanks, Martin Hinner too)

I have a MyBook World I 1T with Firmware 02.00.18. I want to configure the ssh, but I disabled the password authentication, and the key authentication is not work. I have a notebook only, and I can't remove the disk from device.

Can anybody help me? Thanks.

 [root@MyBookWorld ~]# ipkg list|grep libtorrent libtorrent - 0.12.3-1 - libtorrent is a BitTorrent library with a focus on high performance and good code. 

Maybe try specifying the username/pass in the uri: http://username:pass@wevbdav.server
Maybe also it is using an encrypted connection, however if username and pass is sent in the clear, it rejects the session?

I made this page to give people a hint of how to set it all up:webdav

[root@icebook libtorrent-0.12.2]# ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane… yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p… /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk… gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… yes
checking build system type… armv5tejl-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type… armv5tejl-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for style of include used by make… GNU
checking for gcc… no
checking for cc… no
checking for cl.exe… no
configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH
See ‘config.log’ for more details.

I've tried to install Gcc with the ipkg manager, but i cannot seem to get it working.
As far as i know i haven't updated my MyBook's firmware, so i haven't found any help in the many threads that says you have to restore some of the files. By the way: My MyBook was bought in october this year.
Can someone help?

But it should be possible to do it (at least in windows machines).
I guess the problem will be with the caps…
The user name will be probably converted to ALL CAPS by the windows explorer, as it uses to do with the SMB resources.
The webDav machine (a unix server) will reject the user as it differentiates lower and upper case.

In internet explorer that convertion is not done, as it is case sensitive.

I should give it a go in the myBook (using an all caps username).

Where may I download webdav to the mybook?
It seems there is a mod plugin to lighttpd but it says it has only a few of the features and is experimental.

What is possible (I don't know) is that there were an option in samba to convert all SMB names to lower case.
But then you should modify the perl script to convert usernames and shares to lower case, as if you use a mix case, you won´t be able to access them through SMB protocol.

So if I make a user called alephsmith, it will actually be made as ALEPHSMITH. This has caused many problems when people have tried logging in via ssh only to have their username not recognised due to the CAPS.

There must be something in the webinterface scripts that converts any usernames into ALLCAPS, we just need to find it and disable it.

Using Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server

The WebDAV client in Windows XP and later is integrated as a file system redirector. Clients can map WebDAV shares to drive letters in the same way as connecting to an SMB file share. You can use the Windows Explorer or the command line.

Continued here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms881375.aspx Not sure if that is what you mean by "logical drive".

I will be honest, I still have not got lighttpd WebDav working well. I've been promoting it mainly so that someone more knowledgeable than me can figure out the kinks and let me in on the secret of getting it working.

But you then must use all lower case in shares and user names.

The SMB protocol uses all upper case for shares and usernames. It is thus case insensitive.

What I meant is that you cannot mix cases in shares or user names.

What your script seems to do is just create a user in the samba database and then in the linux system (with no password or home directory).

But does not seem to do any case conversion, so it must be done in the calling perl files (this is just a guess).

actually, you may need to edit the shell scripts in /usr/www/nbin/. Maybe a bash expert can tell us:

 [root@MyBookWorld nbin]# cat /usr/www/nbin/fs_addUser.sh #!/bin/sh # # Adds a user to unix, sets the password, adds them to Samba and also sets the password # # $1 - Username # $2 - Password # # Does NOT create a home dir for the user # UNAME=$1 PWORD=$2 . $NAS_NBIN/commonfuncs if [ $UNAME = "www-data" ] then $SMB_HOME/bin/pdbedit -a -u ${UNAME} -c "[N ]" -s ${SMB_CONF} -t <<EOF ${PWORD} ${PWORD} EOF exit 0 fi adduser -D -H "$UNAME" nas_passwd.sh $UNAME $PWORD $SMB_HOME/bin/pdbedit -a ${UNAME} -s ${SMB_CONF} -t << EOF ${PWORD} ${PWORD} EOF # $NAS_NBIN/restartSamba.sh exit 0 

WebDav is a good alternative, but I don't think you can mount a logical drive using webdav in windows (at least I don't know how). The problem is that many programs (like folder syncronizations programs) do not know anything about webdav, so you cannot access content with them. If there where a way to mount a logical drive in windows, it would be a great option.

Of course I will give a try to the file browsers (accessbook and ajaXplorer) and will let one installed even if I continue using Mionet.

What i think (like you) will be more difficult to find is a way to temporarily share files with outside users, like the turn-key method in mionet.
It is great to give access to somebody you don't trust to a large file that cannot be send by email.

To achieve it you would need to edit the .pl scripts that make up the webinterface or possibly restore those from a previous FW version. I personally have no knowledge of perl but maybe you do?

To punch through a corporate firewall:

• openvpn would allow you to mount the remote file system like it was on your local subnet.
• You could also use Webdav on port 80/443, on both Linux and OS X boxes WebDav shares can be mounted as network drives (I'm not sure about Windows.

Access to files on *any* computer (without extra software):

• Regular httpd server with simple access control (.htaccess or similar)
• WebDav is also support on all modern OS (Windows WX/Vista, Linux, OS X), this allows file access and uploads
• sftp is also an option from any *NIX/OS X box
• There are also some webinterfaces developed by community members here like accessbook that provide browser based access

Per file access control:

• Well I'm not sure about this one, although I doubt you'd get anything as turn-key as what Mionet provides.