I am trying to install SWAT for Samba on CentOS 7 using "yum install", But failed to find it. Could you help? Regards, Kevin SZ
On 25/02/16 17:41, Siwei Zhang wrote:> I am trying to install SWAT for Samba on CentOS 7 using "yum install", > But failed to find it. > Could you help? > > Regards, > > Kevin SZSorry, but swat has been removed from Samba and is no longer available. Rowland
On 25/02/16 18:21, Siwei Zhang wrote:> Hi, > > Thanks for your reply. > But what else can I use instead?It depends on what your samba setup is, for instance, if your Samba machine is running as an AD DC, you could use 'samba-tool' on the DC, or ADUC on a windows machine. There is also Ldap Account Manager (LAM) Rowland> > Regards, > > Kevin SZ > >
On 26/02/16 00:43, Means, Jeffrey D. wrote:> > Just out of curiosity why was swat discontinued? Plus what in the > future will be available as a GUI replacement for swat? Is there any > thing in the channel for replacing the GUI for samba so that the > admins running x will have a simple interface for setting up samba > plus administrators of the domain services samba provides? > > Thanks in advance, > Jeff Means > >It was removed nearly three years ago because, as far as I am aware, it wasn't being maintained and didn't work with an AD DC. There does not seem to any GUI replacement being worked on, but I am sure that a patch to add one, will be examined sympathetically. Rowland