[Samba] SWAT not accessible from remote sites

[John H Terpstra]

On Monday 07 November 2005 07:43, Kenny Sanders wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am not able to access SWAT from any other host besides the one running
> the SWAT daemon.
>
> No firewall blocking access on either side.
>
> # netstat -lnt | grep 901
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:901                 0.0.0.0:*
> LISTEN
>
> works fine connecting from localhost using:
> lynx localhost:901
>
> Unavailable using public IP on a remote host.. i.e. going into Firefox and
> http://1.2.3.4:901
>
> SWAT is configured through xinetd:
>
> # cat /etc/xinetd.d/swat
> # 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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Your SWAT confiugration is doing what it is configured to do. See above entry!

- John T.

>         user            = root
>         server          = /usr/sbin/swat
>         log_on_failure  += USERID
> }
>
> TIA,
> Kenny Sanders