Samba (SWAT)

[jasmjaso]

I have one machine that SWAT works on, the other I keep getting "Netscape's network was refused by the server 127.0.0.1:901. The server may not be accepting connections or may be busy" Try connecting again later. I get this all the time on this machine, everything is the same on both machine (settings and everything) I don't know why I cannot use SWAT on this machine. Please help if you know what is wrong or what I'm doing wrong.

 

[Roland]

Hm, normally, SWAT is started by the inetd- superserver, which requires the following
entry in the /etc/inetd.conf :
swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat

Maybe it is commented out?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

If it's a newish distribution (e.g. redhat 7.x) then swat would be controlled by the xinetd daemaon rather than the older inetd system - although that is still used by debian. If so, for security reasons many of the ip servers are shipped in such a way that when you install from a rpm they are as still turned off by default. To get round this you have to edit the relevant file in /etc/xinetd.d/ - for swat its /etc/xinetd.d/swat and simply change the line in that file that says 'disable=yes' to 'disable=no'. Then restart the daemon by '/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd restart' .

In should then work...

Rgds