Samba setup on RH8.0
Francisco Ruiz
fruiz at tsitrucks.com
Tue Nov 23 17:30:28 UTC 2004
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?
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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".
>>>>>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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