Enabling SWAT problem

[Mike Burger]

Like I said, you should be able to use "up2date" to install it all.

"up2date samba samba-common samba-swat" should do it.

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Aram Hazarian wrote:

> Thank you for your sincerity, but that's what I wanted to do - to install somelike a full package.
> Unfortunately, I got from samba.org the "samba-2.2.12.tar.gz" file, unzipped and compiled the sources from the "Sources" directory.
> I took this file from samba 'cause with the samba packages from the RedHat disks I had the same problem - no SWAT -  and thought that with such a file from samba I will solve everything.
> Now, where can I get all the suite from ?
> 
> >>> Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org> 01/22/05 21:45 PM >>>
> I hope you'll pardon my blunt response, here, but this was your first 
> problem.  Red Hat already packages up the entire samba suite in RPMs, 
> suitable for immediate installation and use.
> 
> *MY* suggestion is to install the samba-swat package (easiest way if 
> running something recent, is "up2date samba-swat"), although, if I were 
> you, I'd reinstall the entire samba suite from RPM, to make life easier.
> 
> The 3 packages you'll need are:
> 
> samba
> samba-common
> samba-swat
> 
> Optionally, if you want to connect to other Samba/Windows resources, you 
> can install:
> 
> samba-client
> 
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Aram Hazarian wrote:
> 
> > Nope, running ?rpm ?q samba-swat? tells me that I don?t have it installed.
> > Did I have something more to do when compiling samba in order to have SWAT functional ?
> > In the README file writes only the steps I followed ? swat in services, then in xinetd.conf, ? but no success.
> > 
> > On the other hand, I searched also with nmap and:
> > 
> > [root at bobo sbin]# nmap -p 901 127.0.0.1
> > 
> > Starting nmap 3.75 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-01-22 17:09 EET
> > Interesting ports on bobo (127.0.0.1):
> > PORT    STATE  SERVICE
> > 901/tcp closed samba-swat
> > 
> > It appears that I have missed something and there is no swat service alive. I have to search for a package appart, only with SWAT ?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > 
> > >>> mburger at bubbanfriends.org 01/21/05 22:05 PM >>>
> > Seems like you've duplicated your efforts.
> > 
> > However, the big question, since you say that there was no swat file in 
> > /etc/xinetd.d, is this:
> > 
> > Is the samba-swat package installed?
> > 
> > rpm -q samba-swat
> > 
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Aram Hazarian wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > What about my issue:
> > > 
> > > I installed samba 2.2.12.
> > > 
> > > I added in /etc/services the line:
> > > swat	901/tcp   (uncommented)
> > > 
> > > I added in /etc/xinetd.conf the line:
> > > swat	stream	tcp	nowait.400   root   /usr/local/samba/bin/swat   swat
> > > 
> > > Because in /etc/xinetd.d there was no ?swat? file, I created one with the following content:
> > > service swat
> > > {
> > > 	disable	= no
> > > 	port=901
> > > 	socket_type=stream
> > > 	wait=no
> > > 	only_from=127.0.0.1
> > > 	user=root
> > > }
> > > 
> > > I restarted xinetd ? and when I went in the browser, at http://127.0.0.1:901 the only answer I got is ?The connection was refused when trying to connect to ?? !!!
> > > 
> > > By the way, I have httpd started.
> > > 
> > > Everything looks like swat is not recognized as a service for the system.
> > > I tried also:
> > > [root at bobo sbin]# ./service swat start
> > > swat: unrecognized service
> > > 
> > > I feel like stucked ?
> > > 
> > > I would appreciate your help.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > Bobo
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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