swat and lpstat

[Michael James]

LaRoy McCann wrote:

When I try to access swat with "localhost:901/" I get the following error:

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
sh: /usr/bin/lpstat: No such file or directory HTTP/1.0 401 Authorization 
Required
WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="SWAT" Connection: close Content-Type: text/html

401 Authorization Required

You must be authenticated to use this service
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 

The thing I am wondering about is the reference to "/usr/bin/lpstat".  My 
linux distribution (Redhat 6.0 and samba 2.0.3) does not have the lpstat 
command.

Is this the problem or is it the authentication issue.  I have the swat 
lines in services and in inetd.conf.




Answer:

If the command that samba runs to find the printers is broken it will break SWAT.

You may need to edit smb.conf by hand to get back into SWAT.

I presume that Linux defaults to "bsd" and "printcap name = /etc/printcap" entry.
So either remove "printcap name = lpstat" or change it and try again.

michaelj

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