CentOS 5.3

I have been playing around with Samba for a short amount of time, and wanted to try out SWAT.

I have followed all the guides, first installing using yum, then changing the xinetd.d/swat file to enable it.

service swat
{
disable = no
port = 901
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = 127.0.0.1
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
}

I then restarted xinetd and turned swat on in chkconfig.

I also opened the port 901 in iptables. I can successfully telnet to port 901 from a remote machine.

When I try to use a browser to access the machine at http://ip.address:901 it fails to connect or prompt for a password.

Thoughts?

Before that you should enable atleast root user for samba i.e.
the restart samba
and then try it from local host as you given only 127.0.0.1 and if prompt for password give root as user and password as your samba password.
....

Total duh moment. I am trying to access it from another machine, so the only was killing it. Changing that solved it. Thanks.

two points.