Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4288 mails)

[Peter Lewis <lewisp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I am sure that swat is a great tool, but have you tried using webmin? It 
provides a useful user interface for administration of almost all the 
packages that a linux box could use to serve the outside world and its own 
users.

Look in:

http://www.webmin.com/

If your samba is not installed properly, webmin will tell you!

Peter

On Wednesday 01 May 2002 11:22 am, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to get Samba running so that any computer on my lan can print to
> the printer connected to the new SuSE 8.0 server. I've never got Samba
> working before, so be gentle with me.  In the past on other linux
> distros I've at least been able to get SWAT to run, but cannot even get
> that far right now.
>
> I used YAST2 to install the samba package. I'd like to get SWAT running
> now so I can use the GUI to edit my smb.conf file, among other things.
>
> So, I've edited /etc/inetd.conf to uncomment the line that says:
>
> swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat
>
> I also see the following line in /etc/services
>
> swat
> 	901/tcp		# CONFLICT, not official assigned!
>
> I've edited my /etc/hosts.deny to look like this:
>
> # /etc/hosts.deny
> # See `man tcpd and `man 5 hosts_access as well as /etc/hosts.allow
> # for a detailed description.
>
> http-rman : ALL EXCEPT LOCAL
> swat: 127.0.0.1 192.168.0.
>
> because I want any local computer (192.168.0.x) to be able to access SWAT.
>
> I've rebooted once to allow inetd to restart but still if I type:
>
> http://localhost:901 or even http://192.168.0.1:901 into mozilla I get a
> pop-up box that says "The connection was refused when attempting to
> connect localhost:901"
>
> Also, if I do a netstat -an I don't see that the server is listening on
> 901 at all. Port 901 isn't even mentioned when I type that.
>
> All I want to do is print over the network! Ahhhh! Thanks for any help.
>
> Brian W. Carver