This is maddening! Does anyone know the proper way to upgrade to Samba version 3 on a Red Hat 9 box? I've googled this to death and cannot find any docs on redhat.com for this...

Thx!! Dave

You might go here:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/Binar...RPMS/i386/9.0/

Get the rpm and then do an

rpm -Uvh sambafile.rpm

Or something like that.

OK, that seemed to work fine, thanks!

Now to my next perplexing question. What is the preferred method to configure Samba in RH9? I read the article on using SWAT(localhost:901) but I have setup numerous RH boxes (servers and desktops) and none of them will let me access the localhost. When I open Mozilla and type in 127.1.1.1 or localhost, I always get an error saying "The connection was refused when attemptiong to conttact localhost". I have no firewall installed or enabled and I have setup the http server. Any ideas on what is causing this error?

Thanks!!

OK, looking at my red hat 8 bible, look at /etc/xinetd.d/swat (maybe swat.something) and change or comment out the 'only_from = 127.0.0.1' line and retart the xinetd service.

Also, instead of localhost, also try the http://theipaddress:901 (It's not 127.1.1.1)

That's all I got for ya...

Good luck.