More "Samba woes" Was:[Sussex] Connecting SuSE 9.2 to Windows XP

[John D.]

On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 10:47 +0100, Ronan Chilvers wrote:
> John D. wrote:
> > Well, I never did find a "stand alone" app called SWAT, but something
> > that I found at the SAMBA site pointed out that SWAT is part of the
> > "samba suite"?
> 
> Precisely right!  SWAT is distributed with Samba.  However most
> distributions seem to chop it off into a seperate package (non-gentoo
> speak again!! ;-) ).  It is basically a set of perl scripts with a built
> in web server.  You set up inetd / xinetd (or whatever superserver
> gentoo uses) to listen to port 901 for swat requests.
> 
> > Anyway, Dave Chapman mentioned that you can configure Samba from Webmin
> > (and SWAT for that matter).
> >
> 
> You can indeed use webmin, but last time i looked, webmin just shelled
> out to swat anyway.  That may well have changed now though.
> 
> > For example, if I go into webmin>servers>samba I end up with Unix
> > Networking, Misc options, SWAT, windows networking, winbind
> > options,authentication, file share defaults, windows to unix printint
> > and printer file share defaults, And that's just from the Global
> > Configuration options! without even starting with "samba users" options.
> > Phew, it'd be just great, if I had the faintest idea of where to start!
> >
> > Not that the "Webminguide.pdf" is much help - that also provides
> > information overload!
> >
> > All I would like to achieve, is for Clare to be able to plug her laptop
> > into the hub and be able to print stuff without having to reboot the
> > system into windows (we did already manage to set that up, but I think I
> > screwed it up with meddling) - the fileshare thing is not a problem if
> > all the info in on the laptop.
> >
> 
> When you say you screwed it up, what doesn't work now?  Does the laptop
> see the printer at all?  Does it see it but can't connect? Does it send
> documents but nothing comes out?  Does it print garbage?
> 
> Printer configuration can be tricky with samba - bit of a black art of
> which I am not a master by ANY stretch of the imagination.  My
> workstation uses cups to configure the printer and then pipe requests
> across from samba to the cups queue.
> 
> Have a crack at the SWAT option in webmin and let me know what happens.
>  Could you stick your smb.conf file somewhere accessible?  Might be
> worth people here having a look to see if there's any obvious
> naughtiness going on.

Absolutely nothing. It (the swat option) in servers won't accept root
login - So I presume that theres some sort of config I'll have to do
with webmin, and after reading some stuff, I also installed usermin -
but I can't even access that!

AAAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhh! Bloody Linux.

Oh well, it's back to the drawing board, to see if I can work out what
to do next!

regards

John D.