[Samba] How to enable swat on SuSE10.2 x86_64?

[Gary Dale]

Sorry if that's not clear. You need to edit /etc/services to give SWAT a 
different port number - see man swat and man services for information.


Change it to an unassigned port.

M9. wrote:
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> Some things are not fine, like swat uses port 901/tcp..
> what if this port allready has been taken?
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>> omginitialrefs  900/udp    # OMG Initial Refs
>> #			   Christian Callsen <Christian.Callsen at eng.sun.com>
>> swat		901/tcp	   # CONFLICT, not official assigned!
>> smpnameres      901/tcp    # SMPNAMERES
>> smpnameres      901/udp    # SMPNAMERES
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> What to do in a case like this?
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> M9. schreef:
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>> Tha manual at the box tells:
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>> In /etc/inetd.conf you should add a line like this:
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>>  swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat
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>> Should this in this case be:
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>>  swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat ?
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>> M9. schreef:
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>>> Correct, the executable is present there, thnx ;)
>>>       
>>> Roman Bigler schreef:
>>>       
>>>> Ok, still not completely sure what you mean, but this might help you:
>>>> http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html#xinetd
>>>> The location of the executable is usually /usr/sbin.
>>>> On Feb. 27, 2007, at 17:52 , M9. wrote:
>>>> Well, to invoke swat, you have to specify its location, this location i
>>>> need to know..
>>>> Roman Bigler schreef:
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>>>>>>> You have to specify which files you mean. We don't have
>>>>>>> magic crystal balls, unfortunately.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As a result of not being able to control the shares, (invisible
>>>>>>> network), i wanted to enable swat, but the files are not were they
>>>>>>> supposed to be....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Can anyone help me?
>>>>>>>               
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