[Samba] unable to connect to SWAT

[daniel.jarboe at custserv.com]

A lot of people have reported problems with swat and 'localhost' in some
distros.  Have you tried only from = 127.0.0.1 in your xinetd.d/swat
file and connecting to 127.0.0.1:901?  You might have better luck.

~ Daniel

-----Original Message-----
From: yuval
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 3:15 PM
To: samba list
Subject: [Samba] unable to connect to SWAT


samba ver (all- common,client,swat ..) = 2.2.7 rel 2

======== /etc/xinetd.d/swat  ========
disable is commented
only from localhost
 =============================
smb is started (#service smb start)
==============================
# netstat -l | grep 901
tcp        0      0 *:901                   *:*
LISTEN

=======  This is the result of lynx localhost:901 ================
Looking up localhost first
Looking up localhost:901
localhost:901
Making HTTP connection to localhost:901
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Retrying as HTTP0 request.
Looking up localhost:901
localhost:901
Making HTTP connection to localhost:901
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.
Can't Access `http://localhost:901/'
Alert!: Unable to access document.

lynx: Can't access startfile
====================================
Does anyone has a clue what is going on ? i've succeeded only once and
then
all the above ..




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