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Tyir 10-11-2003 04:17 PM
Installing Swat from Samba
 
In trying to install samba and I want to be able to use Swat.
When i run 'rpm -iv swat-2.2.7-1.i386.rpm'
It gave me a list of failed dependencies.

So i installed the apt-get program, and synaptic, and through it, I installed everyting, so now for samba-swat is says package is installed.
But if ti is installed, how do i run it?
And i tried to redo the rpm install, and it have meth elist of 5 failed dependencies again.
Shouldn't apt-get have installed all those packages?

Thanks

Tyir 10-12-2003 01:22 AM
sorry to bump, but anyone?

megaspaz 10-12-2003 03:36 AM
to run swat, open up a browser and type in the address bar:

http://localhost:901

type in root for username and the root password.

also make sure swat is set to run. for redhat 7.3 swat isn't configured to run by default. to make it run on my version, i had to go into the service configuration gui and check the box marked SWAT. that starts swat. to kill swat, uncheck the box marked SWAT. but it maybe different in redhat 9.0. also bear in mind, i don't use redhat's samba packages either. i always use the packages from samba.org. they're usually more recent than redhat's versions and in one nice rpm package as opposed to downloading the serveral packages the way redhat does.

edit: this is the command for the service conf gui tool:

/usr/bin/serviceconf

Tyir 10-12-2003 11:13 AM
Hi, thanks, you are right, it was unchecked in the service configuration tool.

Sorry to ask this really newb question, but when you say local host, you dont actually mean 'localhost'right, you mean ip adress?

But anyway, it doesnt work for either...also the files that I think are supposed to be there aren't...But i the apt-get program it says swat is installed?

megaspaz 10-12-2003 12:57 PM
i really do mean localhost. no ip address because swat is being run from your computer. not on the web. as far as getting swat to work for you, i don't know. i remember one person using apt-get to update samba and it not working. i always get the samba packages from samba.org and it always works for me after making sure to check if swat and smb are enabled (smb you can restart).

Tyir 10-12-2003 02:33 PM
Well orignally i tried to install swat from rpm...but there was a whole bunch of dependencies, and when i tried to install those, there was another list of dependedncies for each.

Eventallu, I coulnd't install them, and i did some reading, and someone said that one could use apt-get to do it all easily. But after using it, it doesnt seem like swat really is installed, even though it says it is.

Im getting very frustrated, because I can't fgure out what to do :(

On the samba.org website, it is VERY not newbi-friendly, i don't really understand lost of the documentation, and there is very little doucmentation that I could find on SWAT, which i understand is a program to use samba, right?

I guess I could not sue swat, and just edit the ocnfig file fo samba, but it seems very hard to do.

Tyir 10-12-2003 03:57 PM
when i do http://localhost:901

i get to this garbage profitleads.com website...

DMR 10-12-2003 05:28 PM
In your /etc/xinetd.d directory there needs to be a file named "swat", whose contents should be very similar to:
Code:
# 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
}
If you have a static IP address, try connecting (on port 901) to that instead of localhost. For example:

http://192.168.0.3:901

Tyir 10-13-2003 01:02 AM
Yes, that file is there, except
disabled = no

i have a static ip, but it says connection was reufesed when I put in my ip:901

ReefShark 10-13-2003 06:04 AM
Just asking the obvious; is xinetd running at all?
# ps -ef | grep inetd

If you change anything in the config-file, you have to make the daemon reread its config-file:
# kill -HUP PID
(where PID is the proces-id-number you found with the 'ps' command)

Tyir 10-13-2003 11:24 AM
Yes...the xinetd is running......

[robert@localhost robert]$ ps -ef |grep inetd
root 1803 1 0 Oct12 ? 00:00:00 xinetd -stayalive -pidfile /var/
run/xinetd.pid
robert 23935 23892 0 12:20 pts/0 00:00:00 grep inetd



so I should
kill -HUP 1803?

ReefShark 10-13-2003 11:32 AM
If you force xinetd to reread its config-files, that would be the way to do it.
In the near future, if ever having to make xinetd reread its config, enter
# kill -SIGHUP `/var/run/xinetd.pid`

Take a few minutes to read the kill manual too ('man kill').

I posted 'kill -HUP' but that was not the correct command. Changed it to 'kill -SIGHUP'.

Tyir 10-13-2003 12:18 PM
When i did kill -HUP 1803 it didnt' seem to do anything...
i did kill 1803...which got rid of the process

But both putting in my ip and locahost still doesnt work......

ReefShark 10-13-2003 03:36 PM
Okay... killing the process entirely makes sure it won't work. You need to (re) start xinetd. It's probably something like /etc/init.d/xinetd start or something like that. Are you running a firewall that is blocking port 901 or something? It's really a weird problem; I've installed Samba several times, but SWAT was never an issue. In all fairness; that was a while back, SuSE 7.2 and still using inetd (not xinetd).

Hope someone can help you, because I am running out of stupid ideas... ;)


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