Samba setup on RH8.0

Sat Nov 20 14:14:53 UTC 2004

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 17:15, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 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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Rick:
samba-common and samba-swat installed OK, but samba didn't.  I got this
message:

error: Failed dependencies:
        perl(CGI) is needed by samba-2.2.5-10

my version of perl is:

perl-5.8.0-88.3

Can you point me to the required package?
Thanks 
Jared