On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 21:06 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 06:59 +0300, Ivan Evstegneev wrote: > > Hello!!! > > > > First of all I want say that I used this "how-to": > > http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html#xinetd > > as my guide and here I'll give the complete log of my actions: > > > > 1) Locating the SWAT File: > > > > this line describes the how-to's preferences: > > "/usr/sbin the default location on most Linux systems" > > > > and I have this file in the same folder. > > > > 2) Locating the SWAT Support Files: > > > > this line describes the how-to's preferences: > > "frodo:~ # whereis swat > > swat: /usr/sbin/swat /usr/share/man/man8/swat.8.gz" > > > > **** and this is what I got on my terminal: > > "[root@localhost ~]# whereis swat > > swat: /usr/sbin/swat /usr/share/swat /usr/share/man/man8/swat.8.gz" > > > > **** as you can see there are two identical paths except the middle one, but I'll talk about it later. > > > > > > 3) We must now check where swat expects to find its support files. > > > > this line describes the how-to's preferences: > > "frodo:/ # strings /usr/sbin/swat | grep "/swat" > > /swat/ > > ... > > /usr/share/samba/swat > > frodo:/ #" > > > > ******* here some little "spike" appeared, in my case I can only view > > the man pages for "strings" command but when I tried to run it, I got "command not found". > > and 'cause of it I followed the next instruction: > > > > "jht@frodo:/> find /usr/share/samba/swat -print > > /usr/share/samba/swat > > /usr/share/samba/swat/help > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/help > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/help/welcome.html > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/images > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/images/home.gif > > ... > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/include > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/ja/include/header.nocss.html > > ... > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/help > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/help/welcome.html > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/images > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/images/home.gif > > ... > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/include > > /usr/share/samba/swat/lang/tr/include/header.html > > /usr/share/samba/swat/using_samba..................................." > > > > ******* but for the /usr/share/samba/swat I got nothing. But when I changed a path to "/usr/share/swat" > > it described me all those files listed above. So now you see that the only difference between how-to's paths and mine > > is that I have swat supported files in "/usr/share/swat" folder and not in "/usr/share/samba/swat"... > > Actually I created "samba" folder and copied there swat files... but as you can observe it got no effect. > > > > > > 4) Enabling SWAT for Use. > > > > this line describes the how-to's preferences: > > "The control file (or files) can be located in the file /etc/inetd.conf > > or in the directory /etc/[x]inet[d].d or in a similar location" > > > > ***** So I found my "xinetd.conf" and added the following lines as they > > asked me: "# default: off > > # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \ > > # to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \ > > # connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser. > > service swat > > { > > port = 901 > > socket_type = stream > > wait = no > > only_from = localhost > > user = root > > server = /usr/sbin/swat > > log_on_failure += USERID > > disable = no > > } > > " > > > > > > ******and now my "xinetd.conf" file looks like this: > > > > "# > > # Simple configuration file for xinetd > > # > > # Some defaults, and include /etc/xinetd.d/ > > > > defaults > > { > > instances = 60 > > log_type = SYSLOG authpriv > > log_on_success = HOST PID > > log_on_failure = HOST > > cps = 25 30 > > } > > > > includedir /etc/xinetd.d > > > > # default: off > > # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \ > > # to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \ > > # connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser. > > service swat > > { > > port = 901 > > socket_type = stream > > wait = no > > only_from = localhost > > user = root > > server = /usr/sbin/swat > > log_on_failure += USERID > > disable = no > > } > > > > " > > > > ******* Then I opened my firefox and wrote this command: > > "http://localhost:901/" but it didn't work... > > > > > > Am I missing something? or doing something wrong? Any help will > > be gladly accepted. :)))) > ---- > /sbin/service xinetd restart # as root > > should work then...but I'm not a fan of swat. > > Craig > It changed nothing.... I still have "The connection was reset. The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading" message. Lets try other clue? Ivan.