[Samba] Samba won't start

[Sylvestre Taburet]

Le Jeudi 2 Janvier 2003 06:38, Peter Caitens a écrit :
> I cant get SWAT to work on my Mandrake 9.0 box either.  I access my Samba
> configuration using the Webmin interface.
>
> Peter
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: George (maDDogg) Berry [mailto:maddogg at vaxxine.com]
> | Sent: Thursday, 2 January 2003 3:00 pm
> | To: samba at lists.samba.org
> | Subject: [Samba] Samba won't start
> |
> |
> | Happy NewYear to you
> | When I try to activate samaba from the web browser, I  get an
> | error message
> | stating it can't find :901. I'm using ManDrake 9.0. When I
> | goto the services
> | area, it won't let me start swat when I click onto "starting
> | a swat service".
> | It says that swat can't strat this way.
> | The bottom line is , I can't get access to the swat.
> | Can you offer any help for this problem?
> | Thanx for listening
> | George
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Hmmm... 

1/ check if samba-swat is properly installed (type "rpm -q samba-swat")

2/ in /etc/xinetd.d/swat, check the "only_from" line. It should read
"only_from = 127.0.0.1"

Then try again connecting to swat...

Happy new year 2003!
Cheers
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