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Unit 14: File Server

14.5 starting swat service notes

If you need to share files or printers with Windows machines, you’re likely using Samba and
know how to administer and configure it by editing configuration files and starting and stopping
the daemon. However, there’s an easier, graphical way to configure your box: the Samba Web
Administration Tool.
SWAT allows you to set up all aspects of your Samba server through an intuitive Web interface in
a style similar to Webmin. (In fact, if you use Webmin, you can access SWAT by going to Servers
-> Samba Windows File Sharing and then clicking on the hammer icon for SWAT.)
Among its interesting features, SWAT includes a wizard that can you help you configure Samba
quickly with a basic setup. It also provides context-sensitive help for all parameters (taken directly
from the man pages), and it lets you monitor the current state of connections and users. Since it is
an integral part of the Samba suite, all available parameters are always up to date.

While SWAT offers convenience, it won’t help you learn about Samba. You need to know about
Samba before you use SWAT; if you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re likely to do more
harm than good.
SWAT allows you to set up all aspects of your Samba server through an intuitive Web interface
in a style similar to Webmin.

Did u know? What are the uses of SWAT?

14.5.1 Installation and Configuration

SWAT comes with Samba, so unless you’re running a really old version of Samba, you will already
have it installed. You can check its availability, though, by using the swat --help command. You
can also use the following commands to find the program:
# whereis swat swat: /usr/sbin/swat /usr/share/man/man8/swat.8.gz # find / -name swat /
etc/webmin/samba/swat /etc/xinetd.d/swat /usr/sbin/swat /usr/share/samba/swat

The /usr/sbin/swat file is the SWAT executable program itself. (I’m using openSUSE 10.3. In
other distributions you might find SWAT somewhere else.) You will have the (root access only)
/etc/webmin/samba/swat file only if you have Webmin installed; this is where Webmin keeps
your Samba user and password. Finally, you must edit /etc/xinetd.d/swat so that SWAT will be
available through xinetd. Working as root, edit it so it looks like this:

Example:
# SWAT is the Samba Web Administration Tool.
service swat

{
port = 901
groups = yes
socket_type = stream

protocol = tcp
wait = no
user = root

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