samba - Jul 2000 - ADDITIONAL ISSUE

Andrew:

One additional issue that came up with trying to configure the SMB.CONF
file:

The "Using Samba" book from O'Reilly says to start up my browser
and go to
"http://localhost:901, to use the SWAT package.

This did not work.  My IE 5.0 came back with an unable to locate or connect
to
the specified host.

I know the /etc/services file was modified correctly, I checked it
specifically after
the package(s) were added.

Another major issue may be related to the fact that the NT logon
name/password
may NOT be on the UNIX side - as with all the multitude of ArcView users who
know
nothing about UNIX or that their data is coming from a UNIX system.  Also,
MY OWN
NT logon name/password is different from the one I use on the UNIX side.  I
did this
'cause I am the System Administrator for the Sun/Solaris/GIS environment and
need
"rights" more specific and robust than the non-System Admins.  It
appears
that this
causes another issue, too - related to the inability to re-connect
successfully after
logging out and re-logging back in...?

Thanx, 
Robert M. Agnew
Sr. GIS Analyst - Administrator
City of Las Vegas
(702) 229-6049

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Bob Agnew wrote:
> One additional issue that came up with trying to configure the SMB.CONF
> file:
> 
> The "Using Samba" book from O'Reilly says to start up my
browser and go to
> "http://localhost:901, to use the SWAT package.
>
> This did not work.  My IE 5.0 came back with an unable to locate or
> connect to the specified host.
ROFL! :-)

The instruction to go to "http://localhost:901" assumes that you are
running the browser *on the Unix machine where Samba and SWAT are
running* (it means "connect to port 901 on the local machine").

Running IE on one of your Windows machines you might be able to get to
SWAT by using "http://name-of-samba-server:901/" (but I don't know
off
hand whether SWAT will accept connections from remote addresses - I've
never actually used it myself).

Regards,
-- 
Neil Hoggarth                                 Departmental Computer Officer
<neil.hoggarth@physiol.ox.ac.uk>                   Laboratory of
Physiology
http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~njh/                  University of Oxford, UK