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https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=1157610.07.2007 · If your hardware has too little memory to run Samba you have to think of an alternative. One might be installing Samba with WINS on a different machine but still using OpenWRT to hand out the address of this WINS server using DHCP. You can do this by setting an extra option in your dnsmasq configuration: dhcp-option=44,192.168.1.45
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https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=6049825.10.2015 · I switched from using the Samba server on my FreeNAS to the package for OpenWrt. I don't know if it's a bug in Samba 4.x that causes it to lose the browser election process or what, but the Samba 3.6.x package for OpenWrt does win if configured correctly. Here's a howto: Install the Samba server on your OpenWrt: