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

[akaDruid]

Is this any help? Found on the net:

 For simple administration tasks with the Samba server, there is also
the program swat. It provides a simple web interface with which to
configure the Samba server conveniently. In a web browser, open
http://localhost:901 and log in as user root. However, swat must also
be activated in the files /etc/xinetd.d/samba and /etc/services. To do
so in /etc/xinetd.d/samba, edit the disable line so it reads disable =
no. More information about swat is provided in the man page.

http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/doc/suse/suse9.2/suselinux-adminguide_en/ch25.html

On 4/13/05, John D. <john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
> 
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