[GRLUG] Samba on Kubuntu

[Bob Kline]

On 8/24/06, Justin Denick <justin.denick at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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:
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> > - 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
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> > port 631?  According to my services file, it is IPP (Interenet Printing
> > Protocol)
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>  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.


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> > 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


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> > 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:
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> > > * There is an entry for port 901
> > >    in /etc/services,  and the line
> > >   contains swat.
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> > > * /etc/xinetd.conf contain a line with
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> > > swat  stream tcp nowait:400 root /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/swat
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> > > * There is a smb.conf file in /etc/samba
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> > >    The same one that works fine on a
> > >    system running Mandrake 10.1
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> > > *  Putting the URL  http://localhost:901/  in Firefox,
> > >    I get "Problem loading page."  Port 631 runs as
> > >    expected.
> > >
> > > What I don't know:
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> > > * Why localhost:901 doesn't work.
> > >
> > > Anyone see something,  or perhaps many
> > > things,  that I'm missing yet?
> > >
> > >    -Bob
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