Samba setup on RH8.0

[Rick Stevens]

Francisco Ruiz wrote:
> Sorry to but in, but I have a question.  I configured samba to
> authenticate with winbindd to a pdc and after that I wasn't able to
> login into SWAT any suggestions?

Try logging in as the Windows "Administrator" login, since I think the
default setup maps the Unix user "root" to the Windows user
"Administrator".  That means you must use Administrator's password as
well.

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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stevens
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:23 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Samba setup on RH8.0
> 
> 
> Jared L. Black wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:27, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Jared L. Black wrote:
>>>
>>>[snip]
>>>
>>>
>>>>>>The easiest way to administer samba is to use swat.  Run "service 
>>>>>>swat start", then point your web browser to "http://localhost:901".
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>>>>>>Once you log in as the root user with the root user's password, 
>>>>>>you'll be given a GUI that you can manage the whole thing.  The 
>>>>>>on-line help is good and can explain a lot of stuff.  When you're 
>>>>>>done, disable swat by running "service swat stop" (you don't want 
>>>>>>outsiders to get at your swat config) or you can set up iptables to
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>>>>>>block outside incoming access to port 901 and leave swat running.  
>>>>>>It's up to you (I tend to stop swat when not using it).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I also recommend you get a copy of the O'Reilly book "Using Samba" 
>>>>>>by Eckstein, Collier-Brown and Kelly.  I consider it essential for 
>>>>>>Samba users--especially when you start using domain security or a 
>>>>>>Windows PDC for authentication.
>>>>>
>>>>>Rick:
>>>>>Thanks for the reply.  I'll take your advice and get the Using Samba
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>>>>>book.  In the meantime, I couldn't find a directory where the 
>>>>>"service swat start" command would work (command not found). Any 
>>>>>suggestions?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Uh, oops!  My bad.  Sorry about that.  It's an xinetd-spawned 
>>>>program. Do this as root:
>>>>
>>>>   # vi /etc/xinetd.d/swat
>>>>
>>>>Find the line that says "disable = yes" and change it to "disable = 
>>>>no". Save the file, then enter:
>>>>
>>>>   # killall -HUP xinetd
>>>>
>>>>Then you can point your browser to "http://localhost:901" and have at
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>>>>it.  To disable swat, change the line back to "disable = yes" and do 
>>>>the "killall" again.
>>>>
>>>>Again, sorry about that.
>>>
>>>I forgot one other thing...you may have to install the RPM for it. The
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>>>RPM is called "samba-swat" and it's on one of your CDs.  If you're 
>>>running yum, you can "yum install samba-swat".
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>>My distribution disks have only samba-2.2.5-10, samba-client-2.2.5-10 
>>and samba-common-2.2.5-10.  I don't see a samba-swat listed.
>>
>>The samba suite I installed was samba-8.0.1, which downloaded.  I just
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>>now downloaded the samba-swat-8.0.1 version and did an install, but it
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>>failed because I don't have libcrypto.so.4 and libssl.so.4.  Am I 
>>having problems because I've mixed versions?
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> It's possible.  Which Red Hat or Fedora are you using?
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