[Samba] SWAT, where ? Got it, not working :-(

[Joseph Loo]

Have you tchecked your pam.d files for samba?

Mark Knecht wrote:

> Mike,
>    Connect to swat from the Samba machine using the Linux browser, not
> across your network.
>
>    On the samba PC, start Mozilla or whatever you use, then go to
>
> http://localhost:901
>
> and see if you get better results.
>
>    It's possible that you have a firewall blocking port 901. Make sure your
> firewall (if enabled) allows that connection.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Stewart [mailto:mike at powys-training.co.uk]
> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 1:16 AM
> To: Mark Knecht; 'Bradley W. Langhorst'
> Cc: mkraus at capitalholdings.com.au; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] SWAT, where ? Got it, not working :-(
>
> I'll try to list what I've done...
>
> Downloaded and installed the latest Samba (which contains swat).  Installed
> it and it seems to work as I can log in to a share with my W2k PC.
>
> As I'm using Red Hat 7.2 this has xinetd so...
>
> Added    swat 901/tcp    into the /etc/services  file
>
> Then created a new file in the /etc/xinet.d  folder and named it  swat
>
> In the swat file I put
>
> {
> port = 901
> socket_type = stream
> wait = no
> user = root
> server = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat
> log_on_failure += USERID
> disable = no
> }
>
> That's it....rebooted a few times, tried to connect from my PC using IE but
> can't.  I have another Samba server but it's running SlackWare and uses
> inetd so the configuration differs :-(  I get to that one OK using IE/Swat
>
> I have checked that swat is actually in the folder /usr/local/samba/bin and
> it does show up in the list of services in KDE but does however say "You
> must enable xinetd to run this service"  Maybe I've missed something ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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