Vista Network Mapping Responder How-To

[justarandomgeek]

If anyone wants their ReadyNAS to show up on a Vista machine's Network Map, here's what you have to do:

1. Get the LLTD Responder source code from http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/rally/rallykit.mspx
2. Get and install the cross-compiler for ReadyNAS from http://www.readynas.com/?p=146 if you don't already have it (you can probalby do this on the device too, but some instructions will change)
3. Unpack the source (Sample Code directory) to somewhere convenient
4. Add another build directory next to the two they provide (native-linux and wrt54g-linux), I called mine readynas-linux
5. Put this Makefile (based on a mix of the two provided) in the build directory you just created
6. Run make and place the lld2d binary somewhere convenient on the ReadyNAS (I used /usr/local/bin/lld2d, if you put it somewhere else you'll have to adjust the next step a little)
7. Add

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   LLD2D!!Link Layer Topology Discovery Responder!!1.0!!start-stop-daemon -S -x /usr/local/bin/lld2d -- eth0!!start-stop-daemon -K -p /var/run/lld2d-eth0.pid


   to /etc/frontview/addons/addons.conf and

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   LLD2D=1

   to /etc/default/services
8. If you want a better icon (the default is a router), create a file /etc/lld2d.conf based on the one in Microsoft's src directory that points to an appropriate icon, I "borrowed" icon 300 from Vista's shell32.dll, since I have an old X6 and it looks a little like it

Comments? Questions? Did I do something stupid?

[super-poussin]

it's possible to compile it directly on nas with the native-linux Makefile

for the icon you can copy an icon as /etc/icon.ico , it will do the job but a lld2d.conf is better

[super-poussin]

i have icons for nv+ an duo if someone needs

[justarandomgeek]

it's possible to compile it directly on nas with the native-linux Makefile

I suspected that would be the case, but it's good to know someone has tried it .I want to install as little as possible on mine though, since I don't really have a good way back if I screw it up. Also, I had to cross-compile lld2d anyway for my two linksys boxen (both DDWRT), so it made sense to just do that again.

for the icon you can copy an icon as /etc/icon.ico , it will do the job but a lld2d.conf is better

I'd rather my icons say lld2d in the name, so I used the ini and called them lld2d_icon.ico and lld2d_large.ico