[Samba] swat failed login caching?

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, James wrote:

> Ah thanks that workaround helped.  However, swat doesn't want to accept my
> login details
> have any other useful tips for me?
>
> I've tried both my /etc/passwd login details and my smbpasswd login
> details neither will authenticate me.  I don't see any mention of what
> to use in the manpage either.

You should log onto SWAT using the username 'root' and the Unix system
root password.

If this fails, let me know what version of Samba-3 you are using.

Cheers,
John T.

>
> Thanks
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
> To: "James" <list_mail at softhome.net>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 2:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] swat failed login caching?
>
>
> > On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, James wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, so I'm not perfect I mistyped my password when logging into swat for
> > > the first time.  Now when I try to reload the login page it immediately
> > > tells me
> > > authorization has failed without providing me a login/password field to
> > > enter my login details.
> > >
> > > I can't see any mention of a solution to this in the swat manpage what
> do I
> > > do now?
> >
> > We are documenting SWAT in the new Samba-HOWTO-Collection. The man pages
> > will be updated before SAmba-3.0.0 is released.
> >
> > The work-around for this for now is to exit your browser and re-launch it.
> > You will then be able to re-connect to the authentication step.
> >
> > - John T.
> > --
> > John H Terpstra
> > Email: jht at samba.org
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org