Samba setup on RH8.0

[Jared L. Black]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:23, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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I bought a Dell Precision 340 last year with RedHat 8.0 pre-installed. 
The kernel is 2.4.20-18.8