On Friday 12 Mar 2004 10:37 am, Chris Botha wrote: > Swat From remote computer > > Could somebody help me. I cannot conect to swat from my workstation to my > server wie IE. On the server it all works fine with localhost:901 > On the workstation if i insert the IP address(gateway) :901 I cannot > connect, cant find page. > > thankx > > chris I suspect that you need to review your samba config file, in conjnction with the man page or look at: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smb.conf.5.html one area to look at is the global parameter "bind interfaces only" ... "If bind interfaces only is set then unless the network address 127.0.0.1 is added to the interfaces parameter list smbpasswd(8) and swat(8) may not work as expected due to the reasons covered below. To change a users SMB password, the smbpasswd by default connects to the localhost - 127.0.0.1 address as an SMB client to issue the password change request. If bind interfaces only is set then unless the network address 127.0.0.1 is added to the interfaces parameter list then smbpasswd will fail to connect in it's default mode. smbpasswd can be forced to use the primary IP interface of the local host by using its smbpasswd(8) -r remote machine parameter, with remote machine set to the IP name of the primary interface of the local host. The swat status page tries to connect with smbd and nmbd at the address 127.0.0.1 to determine if they are running. Not adding 127.0.0.1 will cause smbd and nmbd to always show "not running" even if they really are. This can prevent swat from starting/stopping/restarting smbd and nmbd." Hope this helps in some way. -- Alan
