[Samba] Swat, not there

[John H Terpstra]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Kevin C McCarty wrote:

> Hey John,    here is what I asked yesterday:::::::

Ok. Apologies, I should have checked back. Glad you have it working.

If I understand you correctly, with 'localhost' in there you could not get
SWAT working on the machine itself either? Is that correct?

- John T.

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> Hello list!
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> Been contemplating the idea of joining for a long time,,,,,,,so it's good
> to be here.
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> Well I guess now is as good a time as any to pose a question.     After
> reading the Faq's, I didn't find the answer......
>
> Question:    when opening the browser to view xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:901   the
> error "the directory is empty" comes up.   I have xinetd .d  loaded,
> started, chkconfig --level 35 swat on     ,,,,,,,    testparm says things
> are there.......     Samba is loaded,  /usr/sbin has the daemon, nmbd and
> smbd are started,, web server works, no restrictions.......(apache 2) rpm
> -qa show samba and swat both installed........
>
> I need to take a step back and think for a bit, because I am confused,
> just want to use SWAT.
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> Any help is appreciated!
> Have a good day.
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> So today in /etc/xinetd.d/swat  I changed the value from localhost to the
> static IP address and now 901 has a non null directory.
> cheers
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> Thanks--
>
> Kevin McCarty
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> John H Terpstra <jht
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> 02/26/2003 11:53 AM
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>         To:     Kevin C McCarty/DEF/CSC at CSC
>         cc:     samba at lists.samba.org
>         Subject:        Re: [Samba] Swat, not there
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Kevin C McCarty wrote:
>
> > Morning list,
> >
> > I asked yesterday if anyone has had an error message stating the "cannot
> > open swat, directory is empty"?  All packages are showing installed.
> >  Can some please respond?
>
> Ok. Here is a response. We all saw your request yesterday, but put
> yourself in our position. How would you answer?
>
> >From your posting it is not at all clear:
>
> 1. What is your platform?
> 2. What version of Samba?
> 3. Is this from a publicly available binary package?
>                  - if so, how did you install it?
>                  - what did you install?
> 4. Did you build the package yourself?
>                  - if so, how did you install it?
>                  - what did you do to enable SWAT?
> 5. What have you done so far to try to trace the cause of the problem?
>
> When I see a posting like yours my observation is that you have not done
> anything to help us to help you. Sorry to be so blunt.
>
> - John T.
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org