Can someone tell me how to install swat in Redhat 7.2? I have Samba running , and the web server running, but I am unable to access Swat. Swat does not show up in the system services, and there is no config file for swat, which leads me to believe that it is not installed.

Thanks

so if you run setup it's not in there?

get it from samba.org and install it


http://us1.samba.org/samba/GUI/

When I run setup, Swat does not show up. Samba is running fine though.

You dont need a webserver to run swat, its its own server. Look in /etc/xinetd.d for a file called swat, if the file is there then swat is installed, check the file for the line: disabled=yes change yes to no, and restart xinetd. You connect to swat by using a browser pointed at http://yoursambaserver:901, I cant remember if its http or https


heres a link:
http://samba.linuxbe.org/en/samba/learn/swat.html

if it's not in setup then you will have to install.

There is no swat file in that directory. How do I go about installing it?

get it from the link in my post above

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but it's still not working. Can anyone else give me any suggestions?

Thanks

did you install it yet?
do you have /usr/sbin/swat?
do you have xinetd?

http://www.redhat.com/swr/i386/samba...7-36.i386.html


you have to enable it in /etc/xinetd.d/swat

set disable=no
set only_from = to the address you want to access it from.

/etc/xinetd.d/swat
# default: off
# description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
# to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
# connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
service swat
{
disable = yes
port = 901
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = 127.0.0.1
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
}

Obviously, I have no idea what I am doing. I've checked everyhing above and it looks fine. I never had the swat file, so I created one, but it did nothing. I just downloaded the file you put a link to and I typed the following:

rpm -Uvh "filename"

It installed, but it looks like it kept the same swat file which I created before. Swat still does not work. Do I have to do something else to get this installed? I read some where about typing ./configure to configure it, but what dir would I do this in?

Thanks

The rpm knows where to put everything, thats the purpose of using rpm.

you can install it from anywhere.

have you tried to open swat in a browser



http://localhost:901

run this

ps -A

and see if xinetd is running


try running setup in an xterm and go into system services

make sure swat and xinetd is on

save and quit

Xinetd is running. When I run setup, samba and swat do not show up in the list.

it should be smb in the list

if they are not in there then xinetd is not setup for them

you should probably get the samba suite rpms

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redh...6/RedHat/RPMS/

there are four files all starting with the word samba


Install it, it should fix everything.

then you just enable them with setup

make sure the swat file is setup as shown in the earlier post

Hi,

I am using Suse Linux 7.3 distribution. I got swat running smoothly. In fact, SWAT is part of Samba package. Since you got Samba running, so swat is already installed on your system. I did not do SWAT configuration in order to launch SWAT. All I need to do is to edit 2 files /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services (Notes: make sure that you have correct path for inetd.conf. If not you will NEVER be able to launch SWAT). Assuming SWAT configuration for Redhat and Suse works the same way.
Once you have edited /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services files you need to send a HUP signal to inetd (It listens on certain internet sockets for connection requests and starts the program for this request). Issue this command:

Kill -1 PID

(PID is the process ID of the inetd daemon). In order to find the PID, issue this command line

ps –x

To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and point it at http://localhost:901

Note: SWAT will rewrite your smb.conf. It will rearrange the entries and delete all comments, include = and copy = “ options if you have a carefully crafted smb.conf then back it up or don’t use swat!

Hope this helps.

Good Luck

Lenka.