ADDITIONAL ISSUE

Omer Shenker oshenker at iname.com
Thu Jul 6 16:17:53 GMT 2000


On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 15:12:11 -0700 Bob Agnew wrote:
> One additional issue that came up with trying to configure the SMB.CONF
> file:
>
> The "Using Samba" book from O'Reilly says to start up my browser and go to
> "http://localhost:901, to use the SWAT package.
>
> This did not work.  My IE 5.0 came back with an unable to locate or
connect
> to
> the specified host.
[...]
>
> Thanx,
> Robert M. Agnew
> Sr. GIS Analyst - Administrator
> City of Las Vegas
> (702) 229-6049

SWAT is running on the Unix box, and IE on a different machine. The address
provided is on localhost, a special name for your current box. If you want
to access SWAT from IE, replace localhost with the NetBIOS name of your
server, or if it isn't configured yet, the IP address.

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Omer Shenker                     oshenker at iname.com




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