At 01:46 PM 12/31/2001 -0800, Ken Nowack wrote:
>Hello again,
>
>Well, I had samba and swat both installed during the
>initial installation. After I got my network up and
>running I went to try the SWAT config tool to get
>samba running. It brings up a Konqueror window and
>gives the error "cannot connect to localhost port 901"
>
>Ok, so I figure maybe bad install. So I verify my
>packages, still no dice. I check for upgrades, samba
>has a newer version package. So I download the rpm and
>install it. Then I start the samba services. Try swat
>again. No dice. I figure maybe bastille is
>interfering. I shut down bastille and try again, no
>dice. Hmmm.... The next thing I think is maybe I
>should verify apache is working properly. So I test
>apache. I bring up a window https://127.0.0.1. Bingo
>apache welcome page. Try swat again. No dice.
>
>I figured maybe I should just go the webmin route to
>save me the hassle of figuring this issue out. I go to
>mandrakeuser.org docs. I pull up the doc's for https
>and webmin. I scan down a few lines and what does it
>say? It says to modify httpd.conf changing user and
>group to root. No way in heck I'm running it as root
>being the new admin that I am. So for fun I decide to
>try anyway, just to see. Edit the doc, restart httpd,
>failed. Apache doesn't want to let me run as root. So
>I figure webmin is out. 
>
>So as a last ditch effort, I try the MCC. It at least
>has the basic config wizard. Maybe if I could get that
>far I could get swat working. The wizard gets to the
>second screen and reports that my network is not
>configured 'at all'. Now I'm completely confused. Not
>only is my network configured, not only is it
>currently working, but I even used the damn MCC to
>configure it (at first at least, the
>InteractiveBastille later).
>
>What the heck should I try next?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Ken

Try "smb start" in a window?


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