[Samba] Starting with Samba - first impressions

[Woodward, Chris]

Did you change the /etc/xinet.d/swat file?
comment out the "only from line"
and change disable = no to yes
restart xinetd
-chris


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd O'Bryan [mailto:toddobryan at mac.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:33 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Starting with Samba - first impressions
> 
> 
> So the SWAT thing is not just me. Several people have written 
> with this  
> same problem over the past few weeks and if anyone has solved 
> it they  
> haven't sent the solution to the list.
> 
> I wish someone in the know who has an hour to kill (OK, I 
> realize I've  
> just described the empty set.) would install RH9 and go from a clean  
> install to getting SWAT to work and document what they did. Clearly,  
> one cannot follow the How-To's anywhere and have this work. 
> And most of  
> us who are having the problem are clueless enough that we don't know  
> what to do next if the directions get followed and the results don't  
> happen as expected.
> 
> Todd
> 
> On Nov 21, 2003, at 1:00 AM, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
> 
> >
> > I promised John yesterday that I would document my 
> experiences as I  
> > tried to convert this ugly two-headed network I've inherited (see  
> > thread titled "Having Samba integrate/replace existing mixed  
> > Unix/Windows network" from yesterday) into an easy-to-manage  
> > Samba-based network.  I took the first baby steps and I 
> thought that  
> > it would be interesting/useful to post semi-regularly here so that  
> > those of you who are also looking to get started with Samba 
> can see  
> > what someone else is going through, and those of you who 
> are so close  
> > to the project that you might take some things for granted can see  
> > some of the issues that one user is dealing with. :-)  If 
> this isn't  
> > useful for anyone, I'll stop sending them. Anyhow, here's 
> day one....
> >
> > 
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> --------- 
> > ----
> > Day 1 - Creating a testbed, installing Samba, and a quick  
> > proof-of-concept
> >
> > I've decided that for my testbed I would use a laptop 
> running linux as  
> > my Samba server, and I would use VMWare to put an instance 
> of Win XP  
> > Pro as my client.  This way, I have a self-contained Samba 
> network in  
> > a laptop that can travel with me and does not rely on any network  
> > connectivity to develop the Samba environment.  I thought 
> this would  
> > be an easy part but one of the Redhat 9 ISOs that I 
> downloaded from  
> > linuxiso had a corrupted package (disk 2, the xpdf package - two  
> > separate downloads, two separate burns on two different 
> computers, and  
> > both had the same flaw), followed by one XP Pro VMWare 
> install hang in  
> > the middle.  As a result, it was nearly 5pm before I had the OSes  
> > installed correctly and was ready to download Samba.
> >
> > Hopped onto samba.org and downloaded the 3.0.0 source.  Before  
> > unpacking, I removed all Redhat RPMs for samba.  I then 
> proceeded to  
> > follow the instructions in the Using Samba book to do my 
> config and  
> > install.  Knowing that down the road I wanted to play with 
> all sorts  
> > of authentication options, I chose to configure Samba with 
> PAM, LDAP,  
> > NIS+ as well as smbwrapper and smbmount and automount and syslog.   
> > Configuration and build went fine, except it took forever 
> (maybe 30  
> > minutes) on the laptop so I hope I don't have to do this 
> too often.   
> > Install went fine.
> >
> > I followed the book and created a small smb.conf that 
> simply creates a  
> > share called "test" (/usr/local/samba/tmp).  I dropped a 
> test file in  
> > there.  I then tried to see how the same thing would look from  
> > SWAT....
> >
> > Bump #1.  I followed the book.  I checked /etc/services for 
> the swat  
> > entry (it was there already).  I then added a swat file to  
> > /etc/xinetd.d/ directory as per the book.  /bin/kill -HUP 
> -a xinetd.   
> > Logs show that it restarted ok.  Open browser, go to  
> > http://localhost:901/, it spins for a while, then 
> connection refused.   
> > Try again, connection refused.  Double-check all files, 
> notice that  
> > the path the book had me enter (/usr/local/samba/bin/swat) 
> is wrong -  
> > it's /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat.  Fix this, try again, connection  
> > refused.  Send more HUP signals to xinetd, nothing seems to work.   
> > netstat doesn't indicate anything listening on port 901.  I 
> never did  
> > get Swat running but I am a text config kind of guy anyhow 
> and I was  
> > anxious to get on, so I put it aside for another day after 
> about 15  
> > minutes and a coupel of fruitless google searches.
> >
> > I fired up the daemons and they started fine.  I did an 
> smbclient -U%  
> > -L localhost a few times, the test share was listed, 
> everything looked  
> > just like the book said it would except (Bump #2) where it says  
> > "Master" next to "Workgroup" it was always blank.  This was  
> > disconcerting but I decided to press on.  (About 10 minutes 
> later I  
> > tried it again, and it was now listed as the laptop's name. 
>  I guess  
> > it just takes a while to make itself known)
> >
> > The book suggested that I create a user on the Windows client  
> > specifically for testing, so I created a user/pass of 
> samba/samba.  I  
> > then remembered to go back to the Samba server and add this with  
> > smbpasswd (I guess this is what is referred to as the matching  
> > encrypted passwords issue).  I hit Bump #3 here.  I would try  
> > smbpasswd -a samba, enter in the password, and it would 
> tell me that  
> > it failed to initialise a SAM_ACCOUNT.  After about 5 tries 
> of this, I  
> > googled again, and learned that the user must already exist 
> as a Unix  
> > account.  So I added a local Unix user by that name, tried 
> smbpasswd  
> > again, and all was well.  I wish the book made this a 
> little clearer.
> >
> > Once I got over that hurdle, I logged into XP as the samba user,  
> > popped open My Network Places....and it was blank.  However, after  
> > about 30 seconds, I saw the test folder pop up.  This may 
> simply be  
> > due to the less-than-stellar performance of XP inside VMWare on a  
> > laptop, or it might be another one of those "takes some time to  
> > announce itself" deals.  The display of Workgroup Computers worked  
> > flawlessly.
> >
> > The share worked fine, I can copy files to and fro, all is 
> well.  So,  
> > I'm calling it a night.  I think that was a good first 
> step, and not  
> > very painful at all, so far so good.  If anyone has any 
> pointers on  
> > the SWAT problem I'd like to at least get it working and 
> take a peek  
> > at it.  I seem to have everything else worked out up to 
> this point.   
> > Looking forward to doing some more complicated things tomorrow.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Hope someone finds this useful,
> > Fran
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