[vox-tech] Help Request with SAMBA and SWAT

[Peter Jay Salzman]

doug, don't apologize.

even if it's not the answer (which i'm betting it is), it's an EXCELLENT
answer.  kudos to you; i should've thought of that!

pete

begin Doug Huckaba <mrdoug@attbi.com> 
> OK, I avoided answering this post becasue I don't have all the details,
> but... I remember trying to use SWAT under Redhat (5.2 or 6.1 I think) and
> there was a commnented out field in the inetd.conf that had to do with
> SWAT. Basically (according to my poor excuse for a memory) SWAT ran it's
> own web "server".  The inetd entry (which was commented out by default for
> security reasons) called a specific command that returned the SWAT
> interface to the client browser. It had nothing to do with gnome or
> apache.
> 
> I'm sorry that's not a very detailed answer and with my current workload I 
> can't research further right now. If I can find some time next week, I'll 
> reply with more details.
> 
> Back then, I found that Swat would hose up my smb.conf pretty bad, so I 
> stopped using it (after I lost a few hours of configuration). I suggest 
> being very careful and making backup's of the smb.conf before using.
> 
> -doug