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I'm going to assume that you are using Mandriva 2006.

 

Go to http://rpm.pbone.net

 

Do an advanced search only on Mandriva 2006

 

Search for: webmin-1.220-9mdk.noarch.rpm

 

You will have to restart the system to get it

up and running.

 

During Mandriva installation when you are presented with

this screen:

 

http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slidesho...se=472&slide=12

 

I always select Security level low or none whatever that

is. I use the external hardware router to block ports

from the WAN. Also https://localhost:10000/ is only

for the computer that Webmin is installed on.

 

Something like

 

https://192.168.0.6:10000

 

will work from another computer on the LAN.

 

Something like https://66.234.192.56:10000

 

will work from the Internet if you allow that port

throught the Router. I change my Webmin port to something

odd like 12532 so from the Internet I would go to:

 

https://66.234.192.56:12532

 

As funky as it is webmin is a good tool to monitor your

Mandriva webserver. awstats has had some security problems

of late so I have stayed away from that.

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I followed you instructions, downloaded the rpm and when I installed it I got the message that is was already installed which I thought was the case when I started. Actually, I believe I have version 1.250 installed. Where do I go from here? Guess I'll reboot and see if that changes anything.

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port 10000 needs to be opened

 

try this in a terminal shell

telnet localhost 10000

 

if you get

[xyz@localhost ~]$ telnet localhost 10000

Trying 127.0.0.1...

telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused

telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

this means

port 10000 is closed or webmin is not started or both . most likely its the port

open the port via the mandriva control center aka mcc under security/firewall

either open "everything" ( not recommended ) or add the port 10000/tcp under advanced / other ports

ssh port has zero to do with webmin

restarting the pc will start webmin if webmin is configured to start @ boot

however su to root and typing "/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start" will fire it up also

if webmin is not configured to use ssl and you enter https:// you'll spin wheels

try both http:// and https://

if webmin is configured to use ssl and you type http:// you'll get an error telling you to use https://

Edited by ddmcse
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Okay. . . I got connected to address 127.0.0.1. I've been typing "https://localhost:10000/" It doesn't connect but no error messages. When I type "webmin" as root I get a message: "not a command" or "not such file or directory." Webmin is in the "etc" directory, and I can cd to webmin but don't know how to launch it from there, if that's possible. I tried opening port 10000 both as a "tcp" and as "upd." neither helped. I don't know what those two types mean. I do appreciate your help with this. My patients is wearing thin. I've tried configuring SAMBA without success. Really, all I want to do is share my printer on my home network, and after a number of days I'm still where I started. I read that Samba is simple, but it's still Creek to me. I thought Webmin might help.

Jerry

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webmin might be helpful for configuring samba the most confusing thing about samba is understanding that samba users and access for those samba users is different than the users on the PC . you need to add the users you want to have samba access to the samba confiig . webmin makes that easy by converting users on the system into samba users . another catch is the password for the each samba user so after you convert the system users into samba users be sure and set the password for each user to match the password used by the system

 

sorry i mis-informed you on starting webmin

 

it's

/etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start

or /etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin stop

 

as root

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I've had this once before no matter whether webmin was started/restarted, etc. You might have to remove webmin and reinstall it again.

 

This is what I had to do, because it wouldn't start no matter what.

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you can confirm if webmin is running by typing

as a regular user in a console

 

" ps aux | grep webmin "

 

you want to see atleast two lines with webmin

 

one line like this

13915 0.0 0.1 2028 648 pts/1 S+ 06:48 0:00 grep webmin

is not enough

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if you use mandriva...

 

#/etc/init.d/webmin start | stop | restart

 

or

 

#service webmin start

 

There must be something wrong with the webmin that I have installed because none of the root commands bring up webwin. It acts as though it's loading from the Konsole but then reverts back to my root prompt. I ran " ps aux | grep webmin " and got a four line response. I guess I'll remove webmin and reinstall it.

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