Well, Colin Farrell was super cool in the movie SWAT, but this baby has nothing to do with crime prevention. SWAT stands for SAMBA Web Administration Tool. It facilitates the easy creation ofthe smb.conffile and remote server configuration for network administrators. For the beginner or novice enthusiast, steps 3 and 4 above can be done effortlessly with SWAT.
SWAT needs to be installed, as it is not done by default. You will find it in one of the setup CDs of your distribution. The startup is slightly tricky, so I will try to put it very simply. Once the SWAT RPM is installed, do the following:
Add the following block to a file called ‘xinetd.conf’ in /etc
Service swat
{
Socket type = stream
Protocols = tcp
Wait = no
User = root
Server = /usrl/sbin/swat }
Add the following line to a file called ’services’ in /etc under # Local Services swat 901/tcp
Restart the ‘xinetd’ service with the command:
# Service xinted restart
Point your web browser to http://localhost:901.A login authentication dialog will pop up. Remember that only a root user can access SWAT as specified in the xinted.conf file. You can also use the name of the machine in the place of localhost if it doesn’t work.
