[CentOS] Starting samba configuration

Sun Feb 18 02:36:33 UTC 2007
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Chris Moloney wrote:
> After installing samba, "rpm -q" shows me I have samba, samba-common, 
> samba-client and samba-swat installed.
>
> However, putting http://localhost:901 in the browser brings up an 
> error that the URL cannot be found.


swat is installed disabled by default.  go to /etc/xinetd.d, find the 
swat config file, and # comment out the line that says 'disabled'...  
service xinetd reload, then you can connect to http://localhost:901

samba itself isn't started by default either, after configuring thingss 
with swat, you have to

    # chkconfig samba-server on
    # service samba-server start

{note, I might have the service name wrong here, look in /etc/init.d for 
smbd or samba or something}