Hello
I have an ASUS RT-AC3200 router now running firmware revision 380.69 and it works great! Much better than the OEM versions.
I would like to point out however what I believe to be a shortcoming of the firmware and this is only due to Microsoft's changes in SMB security which means this may be a shortcoming of Microsoft and not the firmware.
I run a small Gigabit network in my home that consists of 7 Windows 10 1709 machines, a FreeNAS server, and various Android devices. Needless to say I keep the RT-AC3200 router quite busy! I use the router as my Master Browser because the network just performs better setup that way. With the Win 10 1709 upgrades and Mister Softie removing SMB 1.0 Protocol from that release, network discovery has been broken once again as the SMB 1.0 sharing feature enables discovery of devices whom broadcast themselves via NetBIOS which is how SAMBA devices broadcast themselves. Windows 10 computers broadcast themselves via WSD or SSDP and in some cases when networked together can see each other but not all cases.
What I have found on my network is that if I disable SMB 1.0 using PowerShell commands for both the Server and Client side of each machine and I leave the Control Panel Programs and Features SMB 1.0 file sharing installed then all is well with device discovery. If I uninstall those features however then device discovery becomes broken as all devices using SAMBA and some Windows machines become undiscovered in Windows Explorer although it is possible to make them appear by searching for them via host name (\\hostname).
In my router setup for SAMBA I have the following configuration:
Enable Share = ON
Allow Guest Logon = OFF
Maximum concurrent connections = 5
Device name = RT-AC3200-76B0
Work group = WORKGROUP
Enable SMB 2 = YES
Simpler share naming = NO
Force as Master Browser = YES
Set as WINS server = YES
NTFS sparse file support = DISABLED
Does this appear correct?
Is it possible to set device discovery for SAMBA to something other than NetBIOS like that of SSDP or WSD in the router firmware? Can you tell me if SAMBA devices are capable of broadcasting these other discovery methods as it seems they are not?
Any help or insight in this would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to your responses.
I have an ASUS RT-AC3200 router now running firmware revision 380.69 and it works great! Much better than the OEM versions.
I would like to point out however what I believe to be a shortcoming of the firmware and this is only due to Microsoft's changes in SMB security which means this may be a shortcoming of Microsoft and not the firmware.
I run a small Gigabit network in my home that consists of 7 Windows 10 1709 machines, a FreeNAS server, and various Android devices. Needless to say I keep the RT-AC3200 router quite busy! I use the router as my Master Browser because the network just performs better setup that way. With the Win 10 1709 upgrades and Mister Softie removing SMB 1.0 Protocol from that release, network discovery has been broken once again as the SMB 1.0 sharing feature enables discovery of devices whom broadcast themselves via NetBIOS which is how SAMBA devices broadcast themselves. Windows 10 computers broadcast themselves via WSD or SSDP and in some cases when networked together can see each other but not all cases.
What I have found on my network is that if I disable SMB 1.0 using PowerShell commands for both the Server and Client side of each machine and I leave the Control Panel Programs and Features SMB 1.0 file sharing installed then all is well with device discovery. If I uninstall those features however then device discovery becomes broken as all devices using SAMBA and some Windows machines become undiscovered in Windows Explorer although it is possible to make them appear by searching for them via host name (\\hostname).
In my router setup for SAMBA I have the following configuration:
Enable Share = ON
Allow Guest Logon = OFF
Maximum concurrent connections = 5
Device name = RT-AC3200-76B0
Work group = WORKGROUP
Enable SMB 2 = YES
Simpler share naming = NO
Force as Master Browser = YES
Set as WINS server = YES
NTFS sparse file support = DISABLED
Does this appear correct?
Is it possible to set device discovery for SAMBA to something other than NetBIOS like that of SSDP or WSD in the router firmware? Can you tell me if SAMBA devices are capable of broadcasting these other discovery methods as it seems they are not?
Any help or insight in this would be greatly appreciated. Looking forward to your responses.
