I mentioned on my blog that I have switched to DD-WRT on my Linksys e3000 router mainly because I was frustrated with Cisco's software requiring a Mac or PC in order to make some feature changes. I enabled the firewall to allow guests to have FTP and SMB access from the guest LAN. The Proftp config file is modified to allow guests to write the public share. This is so the guests who come over can have access to the share volume and transfer data without using sneaker net. Proftp and Samba enable anonymous write permission to /mnt/public. I used smbpasswd -a to add the users to /opt/etc/smbpasswd. I also moved the local user's home directory from /opt to /mnt/home so they could use Samba and the larger filesystem. Here, you can see my S99Local file which adds users and groups from /opt/etc to the main password database. I installed a custom S99Local script to keep the custom user database up to date, Proftp to get my own configuration options that the GUI didn't support, and I deviated from the typical Samba config to enable guests to have write access. I also wanted non-privileged access to DD-WRT so I created more users for /etc/passwd. I wanted guests to have write access to the public volume and FTP access. Optware is like a power pack for DD-WRT enabling the user to enhance the functionality even further by adding even more services to the router.
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