Additional Samba Topics

Samba Web Configuration Tool (SWAT)

SWAT is a Web-based administration tool for Samba. It is easy to configure and provides a simple interface for most Samba configuration tasks. On our Red Hat Linux system, the following steps had to be performed to get SWAT running. If you have a different UNIX variant, then your steps will be different.

Edit the file /etc/xinetd.d/swat and change disable to no as shown in the following listing:

 # default: off # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \ # to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \ # connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser. service swat { port= 901 socket_type= stream wait = no only_from = 127.0.0.1 user= root server= /usr/sbin/swat log_on_failure+= ...

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