Samba setup on RH8.0

[Rick Stevens]

Francisco Ruiz wrote:
> Nope nothing. Any other ideas?

We prefer bottom-posting here, Francisco.  However,

You do get the login screen, right?  And logging in as the Windows
"Administrator" doesn't work?  Did you try various permutations
("Administrator", "administrator", etc.).

Which security model are you using?  Have you checked the
/var/log/swat.log file to see if there are any clues there?

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> [mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick
> Stevens
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 12:03 PM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Samba setup on RH8.0
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> Francisco Ruiz wrote:
> 
>>Sorry to but in, but I have a question.  I configured samba to 
>>authenticate with winbindd to a pdc and after that I wasn't able to 
>>login into SWAT any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Try logging in as the Windows "Administrator" login, since I think the
> default setup maps the Unix user "root" to the Windows user
> "Administrator".  That means you must use Administrator's password as
> well.
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>[mailto:redhat-install-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick 
>>Stevens
>>Sent: Friday, November 19, 2004 12:23 PM
>>To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
>>Subject: Re: Samba setup on RH8.0
>>
>>
>>Jared L. Black wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:27, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Rick Stevens wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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
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> "http://localhost:901".
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>>>>>>>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
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> to
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>>>>>>>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
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>>>>>>>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
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>>
>>>>>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
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>>
>>>>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
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>>>now downloaded the samba-swat-8.0.1 version and did an install, but it
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>>>failed because I don't have libcrypto.so.4 and libssl.so.4.  Am I
>>>having problems because I've mixed versions?
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>>
>>It's possible.  Which Red Hat or Fedora are you using?
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