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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:13 AM

I just spent an entire morning trying to get samba's swat interface to
work. I checked all the newsgroups, google, samba doc, etc. Hopefully,
this will save someone else 4 hours!

Getting SWAT to work on Gentoo!

Gentoo's samba installation installs swat in a disabled state by default
and per policy. To enable swat, the user must turn off disable in the file

/etc/xinet.d/swat as so:

service swat
{
port = 901
socket_type = stream
wait = no
only_from = localhost
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
# MAKE DISABLE = NO!
disable = no
}

Next, and this is what caused me such angst, is to check that the module
xinetd is installed!

emerge -s xinetd

If NOT, install it

emerge xinetd

For some reason, and I'm reporting this as a possible bug to the
maintainers, since it should be a requirement.

Lastly, add the xinetd startup script to the system default

rc-update add xinetd default

After that, swat pops right up.

http://localhost:901

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:13 AM

So anyway, it was like, 18:55 CET Feb 09 2005, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Peter was all like, "Dude,

> i just spent an entire morning trying to get samba's swat interface
> to work. I checked all the newsgroups, google, samba doc, etc.
> Hopefully, this will save someone else 4 hours!

You might have had better luck starting out with the gentoo forums:

<http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5013%2006>
<http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8786>

Or, just google for: swat samba site:gentoo.org. Shouldn't take four
hours to get to the first hit that mentions merging xinetd.

Nice effort with the howto, either way.

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#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 09:14 AM

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:36:09 +0100, Johan Lindquist wrote:

> So anyway, it was like, 18:55 CET Feb 09 2005, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
> Peter was all like, "Dude,
>
>> i just spent an entire morning trying to get samba's swat interface
>> to work. I checked all the newsgroups, google, samba doc, etc.
>> Hopefully, this will save someone else 4 hours!
>
> You might have had better luck starting out with the gentoo forums:
>
> <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5013%2006>
> <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8786>

You are right. But I hate the forums format and avoid them. The first link
however would have save me! Oh well. So much for trying to be a hero.

>
> Or, just google for: swat samba site:gentoo.org. Shouldn't take four
> hours to get to the first hit that mentions merging xinetd.

Well, I did google, but not for gentoo.org. Just general. Lots of people
had the problem, and when I kept running into xinitd, I realized maybe it
was not loaded!

>
> Nice effort with the howto, either way.

Ah gee, I'm blushing.

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