Re: Samba - SWAT - can't connect from Internet Explorer

"Taylor, ForrestX" <[email protected]> Wed, 15 Jan 2003 10:02:40 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.redhat.release.guinness
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

[email protected] wrote:
> -Samba - I can't connect to SWAT from Internet Explorer.
> -I have started the service:    /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb start
> -I have edited the /etc/inetd.conf to include:  swat stream tcp nowait.400
> root /usr/sbin/swat swat
> as well as:     swat    901/tcp
> -as root user, I ran    /sbin/chkconfig swat on
>                                 /sbin/service xinetd reload             
> and it says OK.
> -When I try to connect from Internet Explorer I get     The page connot be
> displayed.
> -Does anyone have any other suggestions please and thank you.

In /etc/xinetd.d/swat, did you change the only_from line?  Mine has:
only_from = 127.0.0.1.  Add in the address of the machine that you want 
to use to connect to swat.

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