lakelover Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 Couldn't find an answer to this on search or on the webmin site. When I put https://localhost:10000/ in the address bar webmin grinds away but doesn't load. I've loaded webmin before but have not actually worked it. I checked the firewall and access to ssh server is open. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wilcal Posted December 6, 2005 Report Share Posted December 6, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 (edited) 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 December 7, 2005 by ddmcse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 if you use mandriva... #/etc/init.d/webmin start | stop | restart or #service webmin start Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddmcse Posted December 7, 2005 Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted December 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2005 if you use mandriva... #/etc/init.d/webmin start | stop | restart or #service webmin start <{POST_SNAPBACK}> 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakelover Posted December 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 9, 2005 I reinstalled Webmin, and now everything is working fine. All I have to do now is learn how to use Webmin properly. Thanks for all your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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