SWAT Connection to 127.0.0.1:901 refused

[boxers]

Samba appears to be working, shares ad printers but I cannot run SWAT at all, have tried playing with IPChains etc but simply do not understand it ! RH7.2 newbie

have tried running gnome lokkit but it does nothing - what am i doing wrong ?

Whatever i do I cannot get into port 901 !!

please someone give me clue for eternal gratitude !

[JimH]

Swat is disabled by default you have to enable it. As the root user.

Open the file /etc/xinetd.d/swat

change the line "disable = yes" to "disable=no"

or you could just use some command line trickery ;D

cd /etc/xinetd.d
cat swat | sed '/disable/s/yes/no/' > swat

Then restart xinetd: /sbin/service xinetd restart

Jim H

[boxers]

yes - checked that before - though the swat file lists
server=/usr/local/samba/bin/swat
but i cannot find that one at all - or anything similar
most grateful for you help - any more clues ?

thankyou

[JimH]

Are you using the Red Hat provided swat rpms?

Jim H

[boxers]

installed 7.1 from cd's - it installed samba common with no swat at all - downloaded samba-swat-2.2.1a-4.i386.rpm from redhat and installed - i have some swat files now but i cannot be sure they are all installed

i also cannot run lokkit - it seems to run but makes no changes - not sure of the significance here though - could be vital if a firewall is stopping it !

[JimH]

Post your /etc/xinetd.d/swat file.

This almost sounds like it might be a bug in /etc/xinetd.d/swat.

Try this and look where the swat executable is installed. Edit your /etc/xinetd.d/swat as necessary.

rpm -ql samba-swat | grep bin

Don't forget to restart xinetd


The firewall will not block the lookback interface by default. I doubt this is the problem.

see if the firewall is enabled.
service ipchains status

and/or

ipchains -nL

Jim H

[boxers]

## /etc/xinetd.d/swat
service swat
{
disable= no
port = 901
socket type = stream
wait = no
only_from = 127.0.0.1
user = root
server = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat
log_on_failure += USERID
}
note the server line is invalid but i do not know where to point it !
the rpm -ql line ran as follows:
/usr/share/swat
then three lines of /usr.share/swat/help/xxxxxx
(i assume the html files are of little interest)
have resetarted xinetd -still refused connection

ipchains suggestion yielded:
Chain input (policy ACCEPT):
ditto for forward and output

thanks again

[boxers]

read it wrong on the rpm -ql line
/usr/sbin/swat
/usr/share/swat/help/wbinfo.1.html
/usr/share/swat/help/winbind.html
/usr/share/swat/help/winbindd.8.html

[JimH]

/usr/sbin/swat

This is the swat executable. So

server = /usr/local/samba/bin/swat

should be

server = /usr/sbin/swat

Jim H

[boxers]

i spotted that one - changed it accordingly, restarted xinetd and smb - and guess what !! conection refused
interesting isn't it !