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I've had a Linksys WRT54GS running DD-WRT (build 14929) for a while. I recently bought another Linksys (Cisco) router (WRT160NL) and installed DD-WRT on it (build 16785).
I'd like to keep the WRT54GS as my main router since it is very stable and use the WRT160NL as a network switch, NAS device, and asterisk server.
I already have samba installed, configured, and running fine on the 160. However, the 160 is running as a router so only devices connected to it can access network shares.
How can I configure the 160 so that all devices in my network can access its network shares?
Alfero Chingono
Posted 2012-03-29T13:55:21.330
Reputation: 275
hmmm, looks like the router can no longer access the internet. When I ssh into the router and attempt to run commands like
wget, oropkg update, I get errors relating to download failures... Any ideas? – Alfero Chingono – 2012-03-29T18:43:08.643The router cannot access the internet or things attached to it? You need to assign the router an IP address on your network so it knows where it is. – uSlackr – 2012-03-29T21:30:43.473
Correction, the router can ping ip addresses but it just can not resolve host names.
ping -c 4 google.comfails withping: bad addressbutping -c 4 74.125.226.9works. So its a DNS issue. FWIW, I made sure to give the router an IP address, and a DNS gateway address. – Alfero Chingono – 2012-03-30T02:13:43.310Thanks, I added the gateway address to the "Local DNS" and it now works. – Alfero Chingono – 2012-03-30T02:17:09.250
Is there a way to log in and change settings after doing this or do you have to reset the router? – Joe Phillips – 2012-04-21T20:59:33.417
If you assign it an IP address, use that to log in. If you didn't then you likely have to reset it. – uSlackr – 2012-04-21T23:40:13.423