How to configure in smb.conf file, different port then 901 for connection with swat
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I am unclear on what you are trying to achieve, but your approach looks wrong to me.
swat is a GUI tool for preparing and checking smb.conf.
If the intention is to block remote access in the privileged port range on the server running Samba, then look at the firewall.
If the intention is to allow remote administration of Samba using swat, then look at techniques for gaining secured access to the server (e.g. SSH) then running swat locally.
The /etc/services file is simply a list of recognised ports and services. Making changes there will achieve nothing.
The man page implies that you can change the port number in /etc/services but that is because swat runs from xinetd and not as a stand alone service. xinetd uses the services file to monitor network traffic. I have not played with swat in many years.
swat can not be configured from smb.conf. swats main purpose is to modify the smb.conf file and that would not work very well.
Actually swat is deprecated and removed as of version 4.1 due to security issues.
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