Samba setup on RH8.0

[Rick Stevens]

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".  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 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
>>>>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
>>>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 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
> now downloaded the samba-swat-8.0.1 version and did an install, but it
> failed because I don't have libcrypto.so.4 and libssl.so.4.  Am I having
> problems because I've mixed versions?

It's possible.  Which Red Hat or Fedora are you using?
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