Set up Linux box as WAP for MyBookLive?
- by AcidFlask
I inherited an old Linux box as well as a MyBookLive and would like to make the MyBookLive available over my wireless, essentially using the Linux box as a wireless access point.
I just wiped the Linux box (home) and installed Ubuntu 12.04 on it. My network setup currently looks like this:
(192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0)
ISP --- wireless router --- wlan0 on home (192.168.0.12)
| eth0 on home --- MyBookLive
MacBook
(192.168.0.11)
so that the MyBookLive is basically a glorified external hard drive. The router does have an Ethernet port, but it is being used by my roommate's computer so I can't plug the MyBookLive directly into it.
Right now I can ping MyBookLive.local and MacBook.local from home, but I am having trouble understanding and figuring out what the correct iptables commands are to make my MacBook see my MyBookLive through the Bonjour network. Also, I'm not sure if I need to set up DNS to forward xxx.local Bonjour/Zeroconf addresses.
I tried the following to forward my entire wired network (which has only my MyBookLive) to a single IP address:
sysctl net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
iptables -A FORWARD -i wlan0 -o eth0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o wlan0 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p tcp -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.66
iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -p udp -j DNAT --to 192.168.0.66
but I can't ping this address from my MacBook.
This is probably horribly wrong, but I am a complete noob at setting up this kind of network and could use some expert help with setting this up properly.
