hi all.

recently installed samba server(3.0.23b) with swat on mandriva 2007 box.everything went smoothly but when i try to access samba via swat on my browser as root it keeps throwing me back to its login prompt eventhough i am 100% sure i entered the correct root password. (i am accessing it on the same machine where samba is installed.)before that ive already edited the swat file on the xinetd.d directory and change the option disable from "yes" to "no" and then run "service xinetd restart"

any ideas ?

Check the swat config for IP addresses that it accepts connections from. Chances are it's only configured to accept connections from localhost or the same machine that swat is installed on. Are you trying to access it from another machine? This is what problem I had when I used swat and tried to connect from another machine.

no.i am trying to access it from the localhost itself i.e on the same machine that swat and samba is installed on.

found this info on mandriva 2007 errata page and that answers my problem.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Releases/Mandr...T_dies_on_login

i should have read the errata page before asking here.sorry mods.

but thanks again ian for the time.