Guest amadeus Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 i have samba and samba swat installed, the link is in the menu, but the program just won't start. i am however able to print from linux to xp but can't seem to share anything else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aioshin Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 maybe you have samba client installed that 's why you were able to print but samba server is not yet installed and might be the reason why swat wont start, or maybe ou'd installed samba but has not yet started it... . to check if samba has been installed. in a konsole as root chkconfig --list | grep smb if you find an entry with smb on it, means it has been installed, to start it manually. /etc/init.d/smb start just try Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 I've never used SWAT for samba configs, but if you try and launch it from the command line it should give some error messages as to what's happening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uralmasha Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 (edited) Should not SWAT be started from your web browser? Just go to http://localhost:901 , authenticate as root, and there you go configure samba. Besides, in the list of services in MCC there should be the box ¨start when needed¨ checked for the swat service. PS If you install samba-doc, there will be help in swat config window, explaining what each parameter, you´re about to modify, means. Useful. Edited March 20, 2006 by uralmasha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest amadeus Posted March 21, 2006 Report Share Posted March 21, 2006 o.k. got samba server installed, no longer in the menu(???) started from command line without errors, still no sign of it working. also cannot start swat. browser opens and immediatly says could not connect to host linux1 (port 901) by the way i forgot to list system specs pentium 4 2.0g Mandrake 10.1 official 40g hdd 256meg ram dvdrw also should mention that i am relatively new to linux. tried mandrake back at 9.2 and sue to some recent problems with windows (i am a network admin for a small music store) i am fed up with windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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