1 This is a brief description of how to install and use the Samba Web
2 Administration Tool on your machine.
7 After compiling Samba (via a "make"), running "make install" will
8 install the swat binary and the various help files and images for
9 you. A default install would put these in:
11 /usr/local/samba/bin/swat
12 /usr/local/samba/swat/images/*
13 /usr/local/samba/swat/help/*
18 You then need to edit your /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/services to enable
19 SWAT to be launched via inetd.
21 In /etc/services you need to add a line like this:
25 the choice of port number isn't really important except that it should
26 be less than 1024 and not currently used (using a number above 1024
27 presents an obscure security hole depending on the implementation
28 details of your inetd daemon).
30 In /etc/inetd.conf you should add a line like this:
32 swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat
34 One you have edited /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf you need to send
35 a HUP signal to inetd. On many systems "killall -1 inetd" will do this
36 on others you will need to use "kill -1 PID" where PID is the process
37 ID of the inetd daemon.
44 To launch SWAT just run your favourite web browser and point it at
47 Note that you can attach to SWAT from any IP connected machine but
48 connecting from a remote machine leaves your connection open to
49 password sniffing as passwords will be sent in the clear over the
52 You should be prompted for a username/password when you connect. You
53 will need to provide the username "root" and the correct root
59 Just follow your nose! If you can't work out how to use it then maybe
60 you should use "vi smb.conf" instead.
66 SWAT will rewrite your smb.conf file. It will rearrange the entries
67 and delete all comments, include= and copy= options. If you have a
68 carefully crafted smb.conf then back it up or don't use SWAT!
70 There is also a short HOWTO for configuring secure, remote access
71 to SWAT (swat does not natively support HTTPS) at your favorite
72 samba.org mirror (see http://samba.org for a list) at
73 /samba/docs/swat_ssl.html
79 Please join the samba-technical@samba.org (http://lists.samba.org/listinfo/samba-technical)
80 mailing list if you want to discuss the development of SWAT. Note that this list
81 is for technical developer discussions and is not a general help list.