How To Convert your Xbox to a NAS

Did you try this? Is it great or what?

have you tried using the xboxes ip address?

Are your xp/2k machines in the same workgroup as the xbox? Can you navigate to the 'entire windows network'? (My network places>up a level)

kevin

hmmm... when you go to the swat page, are smbd and nmbd both running?

alternatively type in
ps -fe | grep smbd
and
ps -fe | grep nmbd

do they show anything?

hmmm, tis a tough one. Im not really sure what else to suggest....

Are all your computers attached to a router/dhcp server? On my Netgear router I can log in and show 'attached devices' which shows my 3 computers and their windows name if they have one. do you have something similar that you can try?

sorry i couldnt be more helpful :-(

hey guys i have the name resolution working fine, but i am having some issues performing the packet shaping? Alot of the modules in this tut are obselete or are not even present when selecting them. Is there a updated list of what needs to be done, or do you guys have any sugestions? Thankx alot and it seems to be working great so far.

Networking --->
Networking options --->

• Network packet filtering (replaces ipchains) --->

IP: Netfilter Configuration --->
<*> Connection tracking (required for masq/NAT)
<*> Userspace queueing via NETLINK
<*> IP tables support (required for filtering/masq/NAT)
<*> limit match support
<*> IP range match support
<*> MAC address match support
<*> Packet type match support
<*> netfilter MARK match support
<*> Multiple port match support
<*> TOS match support
<*> recent match support
<*> ECN match support
<*> DSCP match support
<*> AH/ESP match support
<*> LENGTH match support
<*> TTL match support
<*> tcpmss match support
<*> Helper match support
<*> Connection state match support
<*> Connection tracking match support
<*> Owner match support
<*> Packet filtering
<*> REJECT target support
<*> LOG target support
<*> ULOG target support
<*> TCPMSS target support
<*> Full NAT
<*> MASQUERADE target support
<*> REDIRECT target support
<*> NETMAP target support
<*> SAME target support
<*> Packet mangling
<*> TOS target support
<*> ECN target support
<*> DSCP target support
<*> MARK target support
<*> CLASSIFY target support
<M> raw table support (required for NOTRACK/TRACE)
<M> NOTRACK target support
<*> ARP tables support
<*> ARP packet filtering
<*> ARP payload mangling
QoS and/or fair queueing --->
<M> HTB packet scheduler
<M> SFQ queue

• QoS support

• Rate estimator

• Packet classifier API

<M> Firewall based classifier

• Traffic policing (needed for in/egress)

On this page when it is time to add these in, I have a problem with all of these:

QoS and/or fair queueing --->
<M> HTB packet scheduler
<M> SFQ queue

• QoS support

• Rate estimator

• Packet classifier API

<M> Firewall based classifier

• Traffic policing (needed for in/egress)

some i could not find some where renamed and some were label obselete.
Thankx for the response.

yeah, stick with 2.6.14 like he/I did for simplicitiys sake. you probably can use 2.6.15, but you'd be on your own. When I wrote the article 2.6.14 was the latest and I havent had any problems with it.

iptables-save > blank_iptables

okay so i have the correct kernel installed and booted, now I can not seem to iptables-saves to work it states that "commend not found"?

Thankx for all your help.

Sorry I was miss typing it, I have been awake for too long now,

Thankx for all your help so far.

I have set up this xbox NAS twice now. With a little messing around I am able to get everything working great untill I upgrade the kernel to 2.6.14.3 The only thing affected is torrentflux, it get's the seeds fine but when I go to start the seed I get this error:

Warning: mkdir(/shared//n/a): No such file or directory in /var/www/torrentflux/index.php on line 74

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/torrentflux/index.php:74) in /var/www/torrentflux/index.php on line 100

Trolled the torrentflux forums, none of the issues I found related to this error fixed my problem.
TF's read write Permissions are good (CHMOD -R 777'ed it)
, it sees root as the owner of the seeds, and no it's not a bad filename.

I also reverted back to the 2.4 kernel and torrentflux no longer works w/ 2.4 either, same error.

I did a second install and waited untill I had upgraded the kernel to 2.6.14.3 before installing all the required packages. Turned out with the same result so I'm thinking the kernel upgrade breaks something somewhere.

I'm a linux noob so any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thnx

Birixidor

what is the name of the directory you are saving the torrents and files to?

what is this: "/shared//n/a" I can see in the error message?
what is the username you are using?

hmmm, i'm not sure about the 8Gb issue, but perhaps it has something to do with your other issue:
Im not sure quite what you mean when you say about the mounting.

actually I have just noticed that there is an error in page 1 of part 2. I say near the bottom to create a directory called samba_share, but then I say to mount it with the command "/dev/hdb1 /big_daddy ext3 defaults 2 1". /big_daddy is what I called my share, but you should put the name you called your share.

Try re-doing this bit, not using /mnt/hdb1 and see if it changes anything.

Hi,
I followed this article and everything works perfectly. Thank. I have working NAS device with 600 GB or HD space. I spent a great deal of time soldering DO point of the chip, and in article author wrote: "Note that I found it easier to install the D0 cable to the alternative solder point on the back of the motherboard." But there was no pictire or description how to locate this alternative DO point. Does anybody can help me with it?
thanks

You have to be in the same directory as the .sql file you are trying to apply. If you followed the instructions, the torrentflux program was untared in "/home/torrentflux_2.0". Go there again, then go into the directory called sql and then try the "mysql torrentflux < torrentflux.sql". That's what worked for me.

see www.xbox-scene.com

pics below represent the D0 for a v1.3 xbox. D0 location depends on your version.

Hey

I've followed this right through & its worked sweet as until I get the QoS section.

When I run the second script "iptables_quotas.sh" I get the following errors:

I used the same versions used in the tut, & also any changes listed in this thread. Any help would be great.

rand0m!

ok, was missing Iproute and had incorrectly formatted the script.
But now I get the following error:

Unknown filter "classid", hence option "1:104" is unparsable

it refers to this line in the script:

tc class add dev $IFACE parent 1:1 classid 1:104 htb rate $PRIORATE4 ceil $P2PRATE quantum $QUANTUM4 burst $BURST4 cburst $CBURST4 prio 3

Should be all on one line.

I am using the script from the tut.

Cheers,

rand0m!

Hey

The initinal problem was that i had put half of some commands onto another line.

With that corrected & Iproute installed, its working apart from the above error not sure why.

This was all done in the root user.


Cheers, for your help.

rand0m!

I am having the same issue you had, i am curious as to the fix. thankx for your time and help.

Sweet thankx i will get on trying this now. i have been reading and have added the mark for the priority 4. thankx for all yor help. i will post if this works out.

It's the same old problem, I can't get past first base.

I have the Mod chip installed, the BIOS is flashed with Cromwell 2.40 and I am doing a native install using an old 3.2 GB drive (works fine) for the OS.
Using the 1.1.4 XBOX install ISO, I can boot into Xebian from the CD, even go thru' and install using opt 3 (native), then once the install is complete I select shutdown from the desktop.
After powering back up, the BIOS recognises the hard disk and CD drives, the hard disk gets a "no FATX" comment after it, (which is correct I think as the native install is on Ext2 file system formated by the Linux Install). but requests the Linux CD and will not boot up unless it is in the DVD drive. I have repeated the proceedure 4 times, I have changed the HD jumpers from 'cable select' to Master then Slave then back to Cable select, which is the default XBOX setting but nothing seems to work - I can't boot from hda1, can anyone help me with this one???

Are the swap partition settings 256MB, (default) ok for use as the Linux pages seem to suggest that 128MB would be better for systems with smaller amounts of ram. Is the fact that the main partition is almost 3GB going to be a problem or should I, if I get the system to work, reduce the size of the Boot partition to something like 1GB. :?:

Hi,

does somebody know why this fails?

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nas:/usr/src/linux# make install
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/compile.h
CHK usr/initramfs_list
Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready (#1)
sh /usr/src/linux-2.6.14.3/arch/i386/boot/install.sh 2.6.14.3-xbox arch/i386/boot/bzImage System.map "/boot"
In order to use the new kernel image you have just installed, you
will need to reboot the machine. First, however, you will need to
either make a bootable floppy diskette, re-run LILO, or have GRUB
installed.

Checking for ELILO...No

Checking for LILO...No

Should I make a bootdisk? (y/N) N

WARNING: Your system is probably unbootable now. After correcting any
problems, rerun this script with the command `mkboot -installkernel'.
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make: *** [install] Error 2
nas:/usr/src/linux# cd /boot
nas:/boot# ls -la
total 7376
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 13 14:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 13 11:21 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jul 13 14:41 System.map -> System.map-2.6.14.3-xbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 513926 Jun 10 2005 System.map-2.4.31-xbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 931603 May 1 2005 System.map-2.6.11.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 528547 Jul 13 14:41 System.map-2.6.14.3-xbox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jul 13 11:14 System.map.old -> /boot/System.map-2.4.31-xbox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jul 13 14:41 config -> config-2.6.14.3-xbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32496 Jun 10 2005 config-2.4.31-xbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 60616 Apr 30 2005 config-2.6.11.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 36330 Jul 13 14:41 config-2.6.14.3-xbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21760 Jun 13 2005 default.xbe
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1241088 Jun 13 2005 initrd
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4413 Jun 13 2005 initrd.splash.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 275 Jul 13 14:35 linuxboot.cfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 May 28 2004 linuxboot.cfg.fatx_e
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 128 May 28 2004 linuxboot.cfg.fatx_f
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 107 May 28 2004 linuxboot.cfg.hdd_xbe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jul 13 14:41 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.14.3-xbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 932586 Jun 10 2005 vmlinuz-2.4.31-xbox
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1912729 May 1 2005 vmlinuz-2.6.11.8
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1260950 Jul 13 14:41 vmlinuz-2.6.14.3-xbox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jul 13 11:14 vmlinuz.old -> /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.31-xbox
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THX

well, something failed or is not right....

if I use:

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title v2_6
kernel /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage
append root=/dev/hda2 devfs=mount kbd-reset xbox=hdd
xboxfb y

title v2_4
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.31-xbox
append root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 devfs=mount kbd-reset xbox=hdd
xboxfb y

default v2_6
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I can boot 2.6.x

if I use as described in your manual:

[code:1:8d04cb5259]
title v2_6
kernel /usr/src/vmlinuz
append root=/dev/hda2 devfs=mount kbd-reset xbox=hdd
xboxfb y

title v2_4
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.31-xbox
append root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 devfs=mount kbd-reset xbox=hdd
xboxfb y

default v2_6
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I can not boot anymore

as far as i know, yes you can mirror the drives with software in debian, however i have no idea how.

as for booting from a usb stick, no, not as far as i know. I suggest you see if you can borrow a dvd drive from someone.

good luck!