swat help

the_imax · 04-29-2005, 02:04 PM

I am trying to run swat but when I try to connect to local host at port at port 901 I get an error

I have read some manuals online and they say that there shoud be a swat file in /etc/xinetd.d/ but this file is not present for me ?

btw I had added these lines of code in my /etc/xinetd.conf

Code:

service swat

{

port = 901

socket_type = stream

wait = no

only_from = 127.0.0.1

user = root

server = /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat

log_on_failure += USERID

disable = no

}

I took help from here
http://www.geekspeek.org/modules.php...=article&sid=7

but again I don't have a /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat directory ?

I am running fc2 and can see smb and its other two services running in the servers->services

What should I do ?

michaelsanford · 04-29-2005, 03:22 PM

Try this

Code:

root@gateway:~# which swat
/usr/sbin/swat

As you can see, my SWAT is in a different place. If it is installed and somewhere other than /usr/local just change xinetd.conf to reflect the real location.

EDIT In the unlikely event that it answers with something like which: no swat in $PATH then you either don't have swat installed or it's in a strange location.

the_imax · 04-29-2005, 03:49 PM

I got this as output

Code:

[root@ root]# which swat
/usr/bin/which: no swat in (/usr/kerberos/sbin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/sbin :/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin)
[root@ root]#

so means I dont have swat installed ? but I though that It got installed along with samba?

michaelsanford · 04-29-2005, 04:35 PM

That doesn't necessarily mean it's not installed, just that it's not in your $PATH.

Try this (my output is included):

Code:

root@gateway:~# find / -name swat
/usr/doc/samba-3.0.10/swat
/usr/sbin/swat
/usr/share/swat

the_imax · 04-29-2005, 04:52 PM

Thanks for your reply
actually I just want to use the linux machine as a gateway for internet access in windows , do I need to have samba for this ?

and my output is

[root@ root]# find / -name swat
/root/.Trash/swat

michaelsanford · 04-29-2005, 06:09 PM

1. No you don't. There are lots of other threads on setting up a linux machine as an internet gateway, but you only need samba if you want to serve files or printers from linux to windows. Plain old internet you need practically nothing.

2. You deleted swat since it's not in your trash...