Samba setup on RH8.0

[Rick Stevens]

Jared L. Black wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 10:23, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>>Jared L. Black wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:27, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Jared L. Black wrote:
>>>>
>>>>[snip]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>>The easiest way to administer samba is to use swat.  Run "service swat
>>>>>>>start", then point your web browser to "http://localhost:901".  Once
>>>>>>>you log in as the root user with the root user's password, you'll be
>>>>>>>given a GUI that you can manage the whole thing.  The on-line help is
>>>>>>>good and can explain a lot of stuff.  When you're done, disable swat
>>>>>>>by running "service swat stop" (you don't want outsiders to get at your
>>>>>>>swat config) or you can set up iptables to block outside incoming
>>>>>>>access to port 901 and leave swat running.  It's up to you (I tend to
>>>>>>>stop swat when not using it).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I also recommend you get a copy of the O'Reilly book "Using Samba" by
>>>>>>>Eckstein, Collier-Brown and Kelly.  I consider it essential for Samba
>>>>>>>users--especially when you start using domain security or a Windows
>>>>>>>PDC for authentication.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Rick:
>>>>>>Thanks for the reply.  I'll take your advice and get the Using Samba
>>>>>>book.  In the meantime, I couldn't find a directory where the "service
>>>>>>swat start" command would work (command not found). Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Uh, oops!  My bad.  Sorry about that.  It's an xinetd-spawned program.
>>>>>Do this as root:
>>>>>
>>>>>   # vi /etc/xinetd.d/swat
>>>>>
>>>>>Find the line that says "disable = yes" and change it to "disable = no".
>>>>>Save the file, then enter:
>>>>>
>>>>>   # killall -HUP xinetd
>>>>>
>>>>>Then you can point your browser to "http://localhost:901" and have at
>>>>>it.  To disable swat, change the line back to "disable = yes" and do
>>>>>the "killall" again.
>>>>>
>>>>>Again, sorry about that.
>>>>
>>>>I forgot one other thing...you may have to install the RPM for it.
>>>>The RPM is called "samba-swat" and it's on one of your CDs.  If you're
>>>>running yum, you can "yum install samba-swat".
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>>>
>>>My distribution disks have only samba-2.2.5-10, samba-client-2.2.5-10
>>>and samba-common-2.2.5-10.  I don't see a samba-swat listed.
>>>
>>>The samba suite I installed was samba-8.0.1, which downloaded.  I just
>>>now downloaded the samba-swat-8.0.1 version and did an install, but it
>>>failed because I don't have libcrypto.so.4 and libssl.so.4.  Am I having
>>>problems because I've mixed versions?
>>
>>It's possible.  Which Red Hat or Fedora are you using?
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> 
> I bought a Dell Precision 340 last year with RedHat 8.0 pre-installed. 
> The kernel is 2.4.20-18.8

Well, that's an old kernel and 8.0 is not being actively supported by
anyone (not even Fedora Legacy).  I'd really suggest an upgrade to
(at least) RH9 or, if you have the courage, FC2.

I do have some much later samba RPMs (from the last days before 8.0
support was dropped).  I'll make them available on the RHIL server.
Hit this URL:

	ftp://ftp.rhil.net/pub/Misc

All four are there (samba, samba-client, samba-common AND samba-swat).
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