Hello all. I am trying to get Samba working on a small home network. I'm quite new to this and am unsure how to get SWAT running. Please bear with me, I am a Windows user.

I've tried creating a smb.conf file, but the Windows 2k machine does not 'see' the linux machine. I am using SuSE 7.1.

Does anyone have a sample smb.conf file I can use?

Like you, I am also new to the Linux world and networking with Samba. I am trying to network my Win ME machine to my Linux. I have gotten it to "see" the machine, but not interact with it. I can give you my conf file, but I don't know that it will be very helpful. Some things to consider:

1. Is the Samba server configured to your windows workgroup?
2. Does it know the IP of the host?
3. Does it know its own IP addy?

Those were about the only things I can think of though there a lot more. I hope this helps at least a little. If you want the conf file, I can't post it on the site so I'd have to send it to you via email, or copy it to this window....probly not a good idea as it is long.

If you want to launch SWAT, in KDE (or Gnome) goto
Configuration->Networking->Samba Configuration

I'm slowly coming out of the newbie stage and have setup swat a couple times. Basically you just need to install swat. After installation make sure that you have the following in /etc/xinetd.conf.

service swat
{
port =901
socket_type =stream
wait =no
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
disable =no
}

Check this configuration real good. The default often says that only the localhost can connect, and it may not allow root to login.

To connect to SWAT just browse to the computer and port 901.
If done locally its http://localhost:901 in your web browser.