[Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate

[Andrew Gaffney]

you should just need to do smbpasswd -a root

Wieprecht, Karen M. wrote:
> Did you make sure localhost resolves?  Also, depending on your
> /etc/resolv.conf,  you may have to fully qualify the host's name including
> the DNS domain.   I seem to rember having problems with this, and some
> combination of using localhost or hostname.domain.edu or using the actual IP
> address of the host cleared up the problem. 
> 
> 	Karen Wieprecht
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noel Kelly [mailto:nkelly at citrusnetworks.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: 'Jim Myers'; SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG
> Subject: RE: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
> 
> 
> I have had this problem before.  Never really got to the bottom of it but if
> you want to get on then just add '-a' to your swat command to disable
> authentication.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Myers [mailto:myersjj at us.ibm.com]
> Sent: 07 November 2002 21:08
> To: SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG
> Subject: RE: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
> 
> 
> I had already done that, so it must be something more subtle...
> 
> Jim Myers
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> B3-239, 408-927-2013
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Irving Carrion" <icarrion at allinterior.com>
> 11/07/2002 12:16 PM
>  
>         To:     Jim Myers/Almaden/IBM at IBMUS, <SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG>
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        RE: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't 
> authenticate
> 
>  
> 
> Not to sure, but I think you may need to add the root account to Samba.
> smbpasswd -a root
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Jim Myers
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:08 PM
> To: SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG
> Subject: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
> 
> I have Samba 3.0 alpha20 installed on Linux RedHat 7.3 and all works fine 
> except for SWAT.
> I have /etc/xinetd.d/swat defined properly (I think) and port 901 is 
> active and starts SWAT OK.
> 
> When I try to log in to SWAT either locally or from remote browser, the 
> authentication fails.
> I'm logging in as user=root with the correct password, but the 
> authentication still fails.
> 
> Is there some special password file that SWAT uses?
> 
> Jim Myers
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> B3-239, 408-927-2013

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