Authorization for swat

[sidewinder]

Does anyone know what authorization swat uses? I recently tried to get it
working on a Linux-Mandrake 7.2 distribution, no luck.

inetd.conf and services are set up correctly, the borwser connects, but it
won't authenticate a root/pw logon. Makes no sense. Nothing in the logs,
either the kernel logs or samba. Everything else works fine, including
other logons with similar programs that need to authenticate.