Samba

[Henrycoffin]

I am running RedHat 7 and it doesn't appear to use inetd instead it uses xinetd and i can't for the life of me get swat to work using xinetd. I have tried editing the file for swat in xinetd and as a last resort tried copying inetd and inetd.conf from a different machine but this still doesn't appear to work can anyone help me to fix this..........Please.

[trekker]

No... don't copy the files from other machines. It doesn't work that way anyway.

I am not sure where did it go wrong since you didn't mention any error message. I quite new myself but maybe you can check these out:
(you need to have root privileges for some)
- Make sure you have the swat entry uncommented in /etc/services
- Set "disable" to "no in /etc/xinetd.d/swat
- restart xinetd with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart"
- start samba with "/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart"

That was how I got swat to work in Redhat 7 as far as I can remember. Just a note, save a copy of your smb.conf before using swat. Swat erases your original smb.conf with all the comments and examples and creates a new one.

Enjoy and have fun!

[ 27 February 2001: Message edited by: trekker ]