what says iptables -L ???

thanks for the reply,
here's the output:

]# /sbin/iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

i think this shows that the firewall is totally disabled, at least, it should. Thanks.

and whats about

nmap -n -p 901 ip ???

btw: see http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/doc/Softwa...lp/swat.8.html

Greets sam

Is swat running?

in fact is samba running?

hi guys,
thanks for all the responses. The smbd and nmbd daemons are running, and i have access to the samba server from another machine on the network, it's just that port 901 seems to be blocked, even though i have the firewall disabled, so i can't access swat. I ran: ]# nmap -n -p 901 192.168.0.3 127.0.0.1, as Sammy2000 suggested, and this was the output:

Starting nmap V. 3.00 ( www.insecure.org/nmap/ )
The 1 scanned port on (192.168.0.3) is: closed

The 1 scanned port on (127.0.0.1) is: closed

Nmap run completed -- 2 IP addresses (2 hosts up) scanned in 0 seconds.

Now, this is the point where i really look like a newbie... It appears that this port is closed, but i don't know why, if the firewall is disabled, because i added the neccessary config file in xinetd.d... Thanks for all the help so far, and any more nudges in the right direction would be greatly appreciated. Take care.

Swat is a webserver independent of smbd and nmbd. Is the service running and are you trying to access it from the local PC or over the network? Check the config file in xinetd.d again. Does it say something like:
only_from = localhost
That means you can only access swat from the PC its running on.

hi again,
i'm trying to access it from the local PC, and my swat file in xinetd.d has the only_from = localhost entry. I thought that swat was a seperate process that was invoked from the web browser and then writes to the smb.conf file. If this is correct, is there any other way of invoking it?

I have it running myself but find it just as easy to edit the samba.conf file by hand.

Is it configured per: http://us3.samba.org/samba/docs/using_samba/ch02.html
Have you restarted xinetd to start swat?

Are you using http://localhost:901 to access swat?

yeah, i actually have my smb.conf configured and running pretty well, it's just that not being able to figure out why i can't get swat running is driving me crazy! I restarted xinetd, and i'm using http://localhost:901, but nothing works. I have no idea what else to try. I have the o'reilly book that link goes to, and i can't find anything in there. Any other thoughts about what could be stopping me?

Check the syslog for any errors with xinetd and swat.

first, thanks so much for your help and your patience, i really appreciate it.

So, I ran "/bin/kill -HUP -a xinetd", and then checked the syslog, and this was the output:

Nov 20 18:43:16 localhost xinetd[1218]: Starting reconfiguration
Nov 20 18:43:16 localhost xinetd[1218]: service/protocol combination not in /etc/services: swat./tcp
Nov 20 18:43:16 localhost xinetd[1218]: readjusting service printer
Nov 20 18:43:16 localhost xinetd[1218]: readjusting service sgi_fam
Nov 20 18:43:16 localhost xinetd[1218]: Sending signal 9 to sgi_fam server 1546
Nov 20 18:43:17 localhost xinetd[1218]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=2 dropped=0 (services)

I have to admit here that i am out of my depth, and can only guess that the "service/protocol combination not in /etc/services: swat./tcp" line may be relative to the problem. If this makes any sense to you i would really appreciate your further thoughts. Thanks again.

Check your /etc/services file, and if it does not contain the following line, add it to the end of the file:

swat 901/tcp

yeah, it already has it...

does it matter where it is in the file? I had it under local service, but then i moved it inbetween:

rsync 873/udp # rsync
swat 901/tcp #swat web configuration tool
telnets 992/tcp

however this hasn't appeared to have done anything, so i may have answered my own question.