[KLUG Members] SWAT?

[Bryan-TheBS-Smith]

Ian wrote:
> When I do a ps grep I can see two instances of smbd and one on nmbd
> running.  I am at a loss at this point, any recommendations would be
> appreciated.
> Note that I can access the web server by just doing a
> http://192.168.1.200.

On newer Linux distributions that use Xinetd, by default, you can
_only_ access SWAT on the server itself.  This is controlled by the
Xinetd config file -- e.g., RedHat 7.x:

   $ cat /etc/xinetd.d/swat 
   # default: off
   # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \
   #	       to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \
   #	       connect to port 901 with your favorite web browser.
   service swat
   {
	disable	= no
	port	= 901
	socket_type	= stream
	wait 	= no
	only_from = 127.0.0.1
	user	= root
	server	= /usr/sbin/swat
	log_on_failure	+= USERID
   }

Edit this file and add your subnet to the "only_from" list.  You can
use various notations (see "man 5 xinetd.conf" for details).  Also
make sure the "disable = no" line doesn't say "yes".

Also be sure to restart Xinetd (e.g., /etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd
restart ) after making any changes.

-- TheBS

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