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samba and swat

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daniel49

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Ok decided to try to network my xp machine to this fedora machine just for the thrill of it.
Finally decided samba wasn't installed yet even though there was a conf file for it so installed it with yum so now smb is in services and running. looked at several tutorials for using it and decided maybe I needed to find some tutorials for the tutorials:disgust:

So am reading in my book and it recommends using swat to configure it.but it says in order to use it first you must turn it on by typing at root chkconfig swat on and then restarting xinetd.

so I type chkconfig swat on like it suggests at the root and it says
Information on service swat: no such file or directory.

This kinda has been my main problem with linux so far as I try to follow a book or tutorial very few of thier commands or suggestions seem to work the way they say they will.
and of course going to localhost:901 produces nothing.

As far as I can tell swat is supposed to be part of the samba package isn't it ( if i have samba I have swat??) its hard telling instructions and details are never very explicit.
 
Tutorials like that aren't all that great because they become out of date and don't generally teach you to use the system on your own.

man swat
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Tutorials like that aren't all that great because they become out of date and don't generally teach you to use the system on your own.

man swat
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No manual entry for swat is response .
so it don't sound like its even on the system??
 
tried that already for swat just tried again as samba-swat and it found it this time.....dl ing now will see if that helps me make sense of samba or not😕
 
Swat should just be for web based administrator of a linux box. It would be easier imo, to just edit the smb.conf file. You really only need samba for resource sharing. Swat unless you could log into it and check multiple systems really isn't any faster than SSH/Telnet/whatevering into a box to edit the flat flie, stop and start services, and pull up windows machines on your network.

 
just sounded like it might make configuring samba easier but I guess not since they still can't see each other .I can ping the linux box from window side but not the other way around and I cannot see either machine. In network places It does not show up.
and It shows nothing under windows networking on linux side even though I have shared a drive.
 
Turning off the firewall on the linux bix usually works. You have to set up SWAT as a service. If you have done that right it will show up as a service in the serivce window. Try taking away the line that says ONLY FROM. Nexy try using your IP address to get into SWAT. I suggest you get the 'Using Samba" second edition bt O'riley publishing. I'ts what I have.
 
ok found the setup utility to activate the eth0. so its active, running ,has ip, has subnet.
still unable to ping windows box.
Even with iptables shut off.
 
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