[Samba] Can not connect to SWAT

lovswr1 lovswr1 at earthlink.net
Sat Nov 8 21:56:24 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-11-08 at 13:09, John H Terpstra wrote:
> 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.

Thanks John, but I'm still getting that can not connect host error


> 
> >  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.
> >
> >




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