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

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 27 February 2007 14:23, M9. wrote:
> You mean by rereading the xinetd.d ?
> I do not know what to do than in the worsed case restartx, or end
> current session, and call upon localhost:904 (in this case..
>
> Do i miss something?

On OpenSUSE 10.2:

	chkconfig swat on

will turn swat on for you. Also, you need to start xientd by executing:

	chkconfig xinetd on

That should do it.

- John T.

>
> Gary Dale schreef:
> > Have you re/started the SWAT service?
> >
> > M9. wrote:
> > Well that was clear enough, i changed the port in the xinetd.d also, but
> > i am not able to invoke swat.
> > when trying to call localhost:904 (unassigned port) i get the message:
> > can not connect to server on localhost 904....
> >
> > Gary Dale schreef:
> >>>> 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:
> >>>> Some things are not fine, like swat uses port 901/tcp..
> >>>> what if this port allready has been taken?
> >>>>
> >>>>>>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> What to do in a case like this?
> >>>>
> >>>> M9. schreef:
> >>>>>>> Tha manual at the box tells:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> In /etc/inetd.conf you should add a line like this:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>  swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Should this in this case be:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>  swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> M9. schreef:
> >>>>>>>> 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.h
> >>>>>>>>>tml#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:
> >>>>>>>>>>>> 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?
>
> --
>
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> M9.               Now, is the only time that exists.
>
>
>
>   OS:  Linux 2.6.18.2-34-default x86_64
>   Huidige gebruiker:  monkey9 at tribal-sfn2
>   Systeem:  openSUSE 10.2 (X86-64)
>   KDE:  3.5.5 "release 45.2"

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