If your Linux installation does not have help documents for Samba available, consult the
documentation on the Samba project home page (www.samba.org). Also, check the
extensive help information that comes with SWAT.
Configuring Samba with SWAT
In addition to offering an extensive interface to Samba options, SWAT comes with an excellent help
facility. And if you need to administer Samba from another computer, SWAT can be configured to be
remotely accessible and secured by requiring an administrative login and password.
Turning on the SWAT Service
Before you can use SWAT, you must do some configuration. The first thing you must do is turn on
the SWAT service, which is done differently in different Linux distributions.
Here??™s how to set up SWAT in Fedora and other Red Hat Linux systems:
1. Turn on the SWAT service by typing the following, as root user, from a Terminal window:
# chkconfig swat on
2. Pick up the change to the service by restarting the xinetd startup script as follows:
# service xinetd restart
Linux distributions such as Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo turn on the SWAT service from the
inetd superserver daemon. After SWAT is installed, you simply remove the comment character
from in front of the swat line in the /etc/inetd.conf file (as root user, using any text editor)
and restart the daemon.
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