[Samba] Can't get SWAT to work...

[Paul Gienger]

Unless you're sitting at the console of the machine and specifying 
http://localhost:901 you want to take out the only_from line in your 
config file.  You will not see it in your process list.  Make sure you 
restart or HUP your xinetd.

Brad wrote:

> I have a Red Hat 9 file server and I have been unable to use swat to 
> configure the smb.conf file.
>
> I have samba-swat installed and the following in /etc/xintetd:
>
> =================================================================
> # default: off
> # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
> #              to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
> #              connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
> service swat
> {
>         disable         = no
>         port            = 901
>         socket_type     = stream
>         wait            = no
>         only_from       = 127.0.0.1
>         user            = root
>         server          = /usr/sbin/swat
>         log_on_failure  += USERID
> =================================================================
>
> I have restarted xinetd.
>
> Should I be able to see swat in the process list?
>
> # ps ax|grep swat
> 24560 pts/1    S      0:00 grep swat
>
> When I go to a browser and go to:
>
> http://<serverip>:901
>
> nothing happens at all. It just sits there. There is nothing in 
> /var/log/messages or /var/log/messages/samba/*
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>
> Regards,
> Brad


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