[GRLUG] Samba on Kubuntu

[Ben Rousch]

Is the samba server itself working? You don't actually need swat to use samba, 
especialy since you already have a working smb.conf (posting it here may help 
with the troubleshooting). Maybe once samba is working, swat will be easier 
to troubleshoot ...

I am currently using samba server on a few Ubuntu server and Kubuntu setups 
and haven't had any trouble with it.

I have never actually used swat, since I am a config file kind of guy. I did a 
Google search to find out a little about it and found this page:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html

It bothers me a bit that swat will strip out any comments or configurations it 
doesn't understand. I can see that causing difficult-to-discover problems.


On Thursday 24 August 2006 18:33, Bob Kline wrote:
> On 8/24/06, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/24/06, Roberto Villarreal <rvillarreal at mktec.com> wrote:
> > > I've never used swat before, but based on your own diagnostics, have
> > > you checked the following:
> > >
> > > - The swat service is actually running?  ( i.e. 'ps ax | grep swat' )
> > > - If so, have you verified that it is actually listening?  (
> > > i.e. 'netstat -ant | grep 901)
>
> I've done the things you mention.   swat is not running.
>
> > > - Also, this might be an ignorant question, but what is the
> > > significance
> >
> > of
> >
> > > port 631?  According to my services file, it is IPP (Interenet Printing
> > > Protocol)
> >
> >  I suppose it means the person can get to the CUPS web interface, which
> > tells them that the box is resloving localhost and allowing connections
> > to it (at least to that port)
>
> That was my intention - show that at least something
> was working.  I concede it's perhaps a thin point,  but
> that is what I had in mind.
>
> > > Roberto
>
> I could easily be missing something simple yet.
> In my own defense in a small way,  I have never
> had a lot of trouble getting samba to work on
> Mandrake,  so I assume there are things set up
> there that I'm not aware of.  What I read on the
> Internet says that Kubuntu often presents a real
> challenge for  many users of samba.
>
>      -Bob
>
> > > On Thursday 24 August 2006 12:52 am, Bob Kline wrote:
> > > > Somewhat in the spirit of "if first you
> > > > don't succeed,  you probably won't
> > > > the second time either,"  I'm still having
> > > > a problem with Samba on a system
> > > > running Kubuntu 6.06.
> > > >
> > > > What I know:
> > > >
> > > > * There is an entry for port 901
> > > >    in /etc/services,  and the line
> > > >   contains swat.
> > > >
> > > > * /etc/xinetd.conf contain a line with
> > > >
> > > > swat  stream tcp nowait:400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/swat
> > > >
> > > > * There is a smb.conf file in /etc/samba
> > > >
> > > >    The same one that works fine on a
> > > >    system running Mandrake 10.1
> > > >
> > > > *  Putting the URL  http://localhost:901/  in Firefox,
> > > >    I get "Problem loading page."  Port 631 runs as
> > > >    expected.
> > > >
> > > > What I don't know:
> > > >
> > > > * Why localhost:901 doesn't work.
> > > >
> > > > Anyone see something,  or perhaps many
> > > > things,  that I'm missing yet?
> > > >
> > > >    -Bob
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 - Ben Rousch