[Samba] Can not connect to SWAT

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2003, lovswr1 wrote:

> Hello, Until yesterday (7 nov 03) I had a mostly working 2.27 samba
> running on my redhat 9 box that I configured via SWAT. Now I can not get
> back into SWAT & I also (in a useless attempt to make it work) upgraded
> to samba 3.0 I get the following when trying to start SWAT:
>
>
>  An error occured while loading http://matrix1:901/:
>
>
>  Could not connect to host matrix1 (port 901)
>
>
>
>  here is my /etc/hosts file:
>
>
>  # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>  # that require network functionality will fail.
>  127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain matrix1
>  192.168.2.147 philip
>  192.168.2.145 robert
>  192.168.1.148 pc2
>  192.168.1.149 freebsd
>  0.0.0.0 ads.osdn.com
>  0.0.0.0 claria.com
>  0.0.0.0 www.gator.com
>
>
>  Also /etc/services does have the correct port 901 set up &
> /etc/xinetd/d/swat
>
>  description: swat is the Samba Web Administration Tool, which
>  # allows an administrator to configure Samba using a web
>  # browser interface, with the URL http://localhost:901
>  service swat.
>  {
>  disable = no
>  socket_type = stream
>  wait = no
>  protocol = tcp
>  only_from = matrix1

Try:
	only_from = localhost

- John T.

>  user = root
>  log_on_failure += USERID
>  server = /usr/sbin/swat
>  port = 901
>  }
>  & /etc/pam.d/samba
>
>  #%PAM-1.0
>  auth required pam_nologin.so
>  auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>  account required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>  session required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>  password required pam_stack.so service=system-auth
>  # added by me in a panic attempt to get swat working again on 7 nov 03
>  samba auth required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok shadow
>  samba account required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
>
>
>  I dont't know if this is related but,my trouble started yesterday after
> I actually got vnc-server working. I just left it at default so it
> started on matrix1:1 I went to work (yes I puched a hole through
> turtlefirewall just for this) & connected from my laptop at work via vnc
> to the redhat box. I did not do anything & then jsut logged off. when I
> got home I had to reboot the redhat box becuase konq would not work.
> Kept complaing aobut something like the DHOCP server or other could not
> be contactacted/(connected?). Well SWAT has not worked ever since. Now
> the samba 2.7 still worked with a manual start, but this morning I did a
> rpm -U| to 3.0 & now that too is not working  Any help ir direction
> pointing would be greatly appreciated.
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org