Hello,

In so far I have been unable to get Samba or even Swat to work on my linux machine. I have downloaded and reinstalled numerous times samba and swat also tried webadmin.

When i try to connect to
http://10.0.0.11:901 says document refused

also when i type:

# rpm -qa | grep samba

i don't get swat like the Red Hat Bible gets...
they get:
samba-*
samba-swat
samba-common
samba-client

I get all but swat.

I have read every post on this board about swat and samba and have followed instructions exactly... also went to samba.org download new .tar.gz files for them and still exact same thing.



Kind of unlreated but could help, how do I open ports to allow outside machines to access them?

- Guy

Here is my smb.conf

If someone could help me just get samba running, that would be the best to learn this stuff better
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# This is /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf

[global]

# workgroup = NT-Domain-Name or Workgroup-Name
workgroup = MSHOME

# server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field
server string = Linux Box

# You may wish to use password encryption. Please read
# ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation.
# Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd

[pub]
path = /home/public
browseable = yes
guest ok = yes
read only = no

[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writable = yes
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what version of RH r u using? if you are using the 7.x or 8.x series, they all have the swat utility in the CDs. Once you have installed it, u need to enable it using this command:

/sbin/chkconfg swat on

And then, locally, point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:901/. Be sure that if u have fwall rulesets, connection to 901 is open (or just disable the fwall for a few minutes until you have configured samba).

Most ports are controlled by daemons or services (ie port 21 is controlled by ftp daemons, port 22 by sshd). enabling these ports means to allow the daemons to accept connections ie by starting them or by opening them up (like what you need to do for swat).

FYI, the Red hat shipped samba places its smb.conf file in /etc/samba/.

You'll find that swat (by default) will only listen on 127.0.0.1:901.

Give that a try rather than whatever address you assign to your eth0 interface.

You'll have to again (by default) login with username root and your root password.

Hello,

When i go to /sbin/chkconfg swat on it says no such file or directory. We are running on Red Hat 8.0.

But I know swat is on the computer because I reinstalled it.

- Guy

Try /sbin/chkconfig swat on



Cool

Thank you MasterC swat turned on...
but when i try to connect to it either through the one you guys said or 10.0.0.11... still says connection refused.

This is driving me nuts.

Also firewall is inactive.

I found a great SAMBA help site.. Real quick run through and I got SAMBA working in 5 minutes..

http://www.linuxorbit.com/howto/sambahowto.php3