43.16. Accessing SWAT from Webmin
SWAT (which stands for Samba Web Administration Tool) is a program similar to Webmin's Samba module, but included as standard with Samba itself. It provides a web-based administration interface to the configuration file that allows you to create and edit shares and global settings. SWAT is usually run from a super server like inetd or xinetd, which makes it appear as a web server—usually on port 901. Most Samba packages for Linux include the program and a xinetd service for it but have it disabled by default.
You can also access SWAT through this Webmin module, instead of setting it up to run from inetd or xinetd. Unfortunately, this will not work if Samba has been configured to only allow connections from some ...
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