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+<HTML
+><HEAD
+><TITLE
+>swat</TITLE
+><META
+NAME="GENERATOR"
+CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.57"></HEAD
+><BODY
+CLASS="REFENTRY"
+BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
+TEXT="#000000"
+LINK="#0000FF"
+VLINK="#840084"
+ALINK="#0000FF"
+><H1
+><A
+NAME="SWAT"
+>swat</A
+></H1
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFNAMEDIV"
+><A
+NAME="AEN5"
+></A
+><H2
+>Name</H2
+>swat&nbsp;--&nbsp;Samba Web Administration Tool</DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSYNOPSISDIV"
+><A
+NAME="AEN8"
+></A
+><H2
+>Synopsis</H2
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> [-s &#60;smb config file&#62;] [-a]</P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN13"
+></A
+><H2
+>DESCRIPTION</H2
+><P
+>This tool is part of the <A
+HREF="samba.7.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+> Samba</A
+> suite.</P
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> allows a Samba administrator to
+ configure the complex <A
+HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+><TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+> smb.conf(5)</TT
+></A
+> file via a Web browser. In addition,
+ a <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> configuration page has help links
+ to all the configurable options in the <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>smb.conf</TT
+> file allowing an
+ administrator to easily look up the effects of any change. </P
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> is run from <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>inetd</B
+> </P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN26"
+></A
+><H2
+>OPTIONS</H2
+><P
+></P
+><DIV
+CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
+><DL
+><DT
+>-s smb configuration file</DT
+><DD
+><P
+>The default configuration file path is
+ determined at compile time. The file specified contains
+ the configuration details required by the <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>smbd
+ </B
+> server. This is the file that <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> will modify.
+ The information in this file includes server-specific
+ information such as what printcap file to use, as well as
+ descriptions of all the services that the server is to provide.
+ See <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>smb.conf</TT
+> for more information.
+ </P
+></DD
+><DT
+>-a</DT
+><DD
+><P
+>This option disables authentication and puts
+ <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> in demo mode. In that mode anyone will be able to modify
+ the <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>smb.conf</TT
+> file. </P
+><P
+><EM
+>Do NOT enable this option on a production
+ server. </EM
+></P
+></DD
+></DL
+></DIV
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN44"
+></A
+><H2
+>INSTALLATION</H2
+><P
+>After you compile SWAT you need to run <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>make install
+ </B
+> to install the <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> binary
+ and the various help files and images. A default install would put
+ these in: </P
+><P
+></P
+><UL
+><LI
+><P
+>/usr/local/samba/bin/swat</P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+>/usr/local/samba/swat/images/*</P
+></LI
+><LI
+><P
+>/usr/local/samba/swat/help/*</P
+></LI
+></UL
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT2"
+><A
+NAME="AEN56"
+></A
+><H3
+>Inetd Installation</H3
+><P
+>You need to edit your <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/inetd.conf
+ </TT
+> and <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/services</TT
+>
+ to enable SWAT to be launched via <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>inetd</B
+>.</P
+><P
+>In <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/services</TT
+> you need to
+ add a line like this: </P
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat 901/tcp</B
+></P
+><P
+>Note for NIS/YP users - you may need to rebuild the
+ NIS service maps rather than alter your local <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+> /etc/services</TT
+> file. </P
+><P
+>the choice of port number isn't really important
+ except that it should be less than 1024 and not currently
+ used (using a number above 1024 presents an obscure security
+ hole depending on the implementation details of your
+ <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>inetd</B
+> daemon). </P
+><P
+>In <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/inetd.conf</TT
+> you should
+ add a line like this: </P
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat stream tcp nowait.400 root
+ /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat</B
+></P
+><P
+>One you have edited <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/services</TT
+>
+ and <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/inetd.conf</TT
+> you need to send a
+ HUP signal to inetd. To do this use <B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>kill -1 PID
+ </B
+> where PID is the process ID of the inetd daemon. </P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT2"
+><A
+NAME="AEN78"
+></A
+><H3
+>Launching</H3
+><P
+>To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and
+ point it at "http://localhost:901/".</P
+><P
+>Note that you can attach to SWAT from any IP connected
+ machine but connecting from a remote machine leaves your
+ connection open to password sniffing as passwords will be sent
+ in the clear over the wire. </P
+></DIV
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN82"
+></A
+><H2
+>FILES</H2
+><P
+></P
+><DIV
+CLASS="VARIABLELIST"
+><DL
+><DT
+><TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/inetd.conf</TT
+></DT
+><DD
+><P
+>This file must contain suitable startup
+ information for the meta-daemon.</P
+></DD
+><DT
+><TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/services</TT
+></DT
+><DD
+><P
+>This file must contain a mapping of service name
+ (e.g., swat) to service port (e.g., 901) and protocol type
+ (e.g., tcp). </P
+></DD
+><DT
+><TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf</TT
+></DT
+><DD
+><P
+>This is the default location of the <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>smb.conf(5)
+ </TT
+> server configuration file that swat edits. Other
+ common places that systems install this file are <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+> /usr/samba/lib/smb.conf</TT
+> and <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>/etc/smb.conf
+ </TT
+>. This file describes all the services the server
+ is to make available to clients. </P
+></DD
+></DL
+></DIV
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN103"
+></A
+><H2
+>WARNINGS</H2
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>swat</B
+> will rewrite your <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+>smb.conf
+ </TT
+> file. It will rearrange the entries and delete all
+ comments, <TT
+CLASS="PARAMETER"
+><I
+>include=</I
+></TT
+> and <TT
+CLASS="PARAMETER"
+><I
+>copy="
+ </I
+></TT
+> options. If you have a carefully crafted <TT
+CLASS="FILENAME"
+> smb.conf</TT
+> then back it up or don't use swat! </P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN111"
+></A
+><H2
+>VERSION</H2
+><P
+>This man page is correct for version 2.2 of
+ the Samba suite.</P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN114"
+></A
+><H2
+>SEE ALSO</H2
+><P
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>inetd(5)</B
+>,
+ <A
+HREF="smbd.8.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+><B
+CLASS="COMMAND"
+>smbd(8)</B
+></A
+>,
+ <A
+HREF="smb.conf.5.html"
+TARGET="_top"
+>smb.conf(5)</A
+>
+ </P
+></DIV
+><DIV
+CLASS="REFSECT1"
+><A
+NAME="AEN121"
+></A
+><H2
+>AUTHOR</H2
+><P
+>The original Samba software and related utilities
+ were created by Andrew Tridgell. Samba is now developed
+ by the Samba Team as an Open Source project similar
+ to the way the Linux kernel is developed.</P
+><P
+>The original Samba man pages were written by Karl Auer.
+ The man page sources were converted to YODL format (another
+ excellent piece of Open Source software, available at
+ <A
+HREF="ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/"
+TARGET="_top"
+> ftp://ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix/</A
+>) and updated for the Samba 2.0
+ release by Jeremy Allison. The conversion to DocBook for
+ Samba 2.2 was done by Gerald Carter</P
+></DIV
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