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