[brlug-general] Red Hat 7.3 -Samba & Swat

[john beamon]

When port 901 is listed in /etc/services, the machine will associate port
901 requests with a specified application, in this case swat.  You don't
need httpd running to connect to swat any more than you need telnetd
running to telnet into a standard installation.  By default, telnetd is
started on demand by xinetd when there's a port 23 request made to the
box.  If it's in /etc/xinetd.d/ as a file named "swat", and if the
"disable =" condition is set to "no", then the box will accept requests of
port 901, attempt to hand them off to the xinetd that's listening for a
configured list of ports, and connect them to swat.  swat behaves as a
self-sufficient web server, just like webmin.  The man page on swat,
online at http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/swat.8.html, is very brief
and very clear.  It runs from inetd (xinetd in modern systems).  There's
no mention of apache.

You might, MIGHT, need to check your /etc/sysconfig/ipchains for a block
on this port in a RH 7.3 installation.  RH 7.x configures a
medium-security firewall by default and asks you specifically which ports
to allow during installation.  You can run, as root, "/sbin/ipchains -F",
then attempt another connection to localhost:901 to see if your firewall
rules are the problem.  If the flush allows you to connect, then you can 
add "-A -s 0/0 -d 0/0 901 -p tcp -y -j ACCEPT" or something a little more 
network-specific on the source side to the top of the list on 
/etc/sysconfig/ipchains, then restart /etc/init.d/ipchains.  Try the flush 
(ipchains -F) first, as I don't think anyone's mentioned that yet in this 
thread.

-- 
-j

John Beamon

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote:

> Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 08:21:06 -0500
> From: Dustin Puryear <dpuryear at usa.net>
> Reply-To: General at brlug.net
> To: General at brlug.net
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Red Hat 7.3 -Samba & Swat
> 
> At 12:07 PM 5/22/2002 +0000, you wrote:
> >But doesn't port 901 need to be accessible from your web server? How do 
> >you get to port 901 without httpd running?
> 
> I think the consensus is that SWAT is its own web server.
> 
> Regards, Dustin
> 
> 
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