On Thursday 22 January 2004 15:11, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I've observed that if I try to start up the Samba configuration tool SWAT in a web browser (any one), I get the message "Could not connect to host localhost (port 901)." What's both odd and interesting, however, is that if I do:
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
I can then connect to and use SWAT just fine. There's clearly a bug here (I've told SuSE about it), but in the meantime, is there a way to patch
On Thursday 22 January 2004 7:46 pm, John Andersen wrote: the
startup procedures (I'm running 9.0) to correct the problem?
Are you sure xinetd is set to start at boot time? Check your Runlevel properties in Yast.
Also occasionally there is a sequencing problem with the order in which services are started. Most of the time the services start in the proper order, but occasionally things get out of order if you switch from hard-wired networking to wireless for example. Then you _MAY_ have to manually adjust the start of samba after the pcmcia gets started.
If xinetd hadn't started, a lot more things wouldn't be working. I'm more inclined to suspect a sequencing problem. Do you know where in the configuration files the startup sequence is specified? I'm also unsure as to whether starting Samba also starts SWAT. Paul Abrahams