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| 2 | .\" Title: swat
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| 3 | .\" Author: [see the "AUTHOR" section]
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| 4 | .\" Generator: DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.75.2 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
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| 5 | .\" Date: 06/30/2012
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| 6 | .\" Manual: System Administration tools
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| 7 | .\" Source: Samba 3.5
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| 8 | .\" Language: English
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| 9 | .\"
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| 10 | .TH "SWAT" "8" "06/30/2012" "Samba 3\&.5" "System Administration tools"
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| 19 | .\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE *
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| 20 | .\" -----------------------------------------------------------------
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| 21 | .SH "NAME"
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| 22 | swat \- Samba Web Administration Tool
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| 23 | .SH "SYNOPSIS"
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| 24 | .HP \w'\ 'u
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| 25 | swat [\-s\ <smb\ config\ file>] [\-a] [\-P]
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| 26 | .SH "DESCRIPTION"
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| 27 | .PP
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| 28 | This tool is part of the
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| 29 | \fBsamba\fR(7)
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| 30 | suite\&.
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| 31 | .PP
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| 32 | swat
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| 33 | allows a Samba administrator to configure the complex
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| 34 | \fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
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| 35 | file via a Web browser\&. In addition, a
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| 36 | swat
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| 37 | configuration page has help links to all the configurable options in the
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| 38 | smb\&.conf
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| 39 | file allowing an administrator to easily look up the effects of any change\&.
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| 40 | .PP
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| 41 | swat
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| 42 | is run from
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| 43 | inetd
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| 44 | .SH "OPTIONS"
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| 45 | .PP
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| 46 | \-s smb configuration file
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| 47 | .RS 4
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| 48 | The default configuration file path is determined at compile time\&. The file specified contains the configuration details required by the
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| 49 | \fBsmbd\fR(8)
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| 50 | server\&. This is the file that
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| 51 | swat
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| 52 | 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
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| 53 | smb\&.conf
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| 54 | for more information\&.
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| 55 | .RE
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| 56 | .PP
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| 57 | \-a
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| 58 | .RS 4
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| 59 | This option disables authentication and places
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| 60 | swat
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| 61 | in demo mode\&. In that mode anyone will be able to modify the
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| 62 | smb\&.conf
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| 63 | file\&.
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| 64 | .sp
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| 65 | \fIWARNING: Do NOT enable this option on a production server\&. \fR
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| 66 | .RE
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| 67 | .PP
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| 68 | \-P
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| 69 | .RS 4
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| 70 | This option restricts read\-only users to the password management page\&.
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| 71 | swat
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| 72 | can then be used to change user passwords without users seeing the "View" and "Status" menu buttons\&.
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| 73 | .RE
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| 74 | .PP
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| 75 | \-d|\-\-debuglevel=level
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| 76 | .RS 4
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| 77 | \fIlevel\fR
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| 78 | is an integer from 0 to 10\&. The default value if this parameter is not specified is 0\&.
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| 79 | .sp
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| 80 | The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of the server\&. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged\&. Level 1 is a reasonable level for day\-to\-day running \- it generates a small amount of information about operations carried out\&.
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| 81 | .sp
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| 82 | Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem\&. Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic\&.
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| 83 | .sp
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| 84 | Note that specifying this parameter here will override the
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| 85 | \m[blue]\fB\%smb.conf.5.html#\fR\m[]
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| 86 | parameter in the
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| 87 | smb\&.conf
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| 88 | file\&.
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| 89 | .RE
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| 90 | .PP
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| 91 | \-V|\-\-version
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| 92 | .RS 4
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| 93 | Prints the program version number\&.
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| 94 | .RE
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| 95 | .PP
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| 96 | \-s|\-\-configfile <configuration file>
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| 97 | .RS 4
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| 98 | The file specified contains the configuration details required by the server\&. 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
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| 99 | smb\&.conf
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| 100 | for more information\&. The default configuration file name is determined at compile time\&.
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| 101 | .RE
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| 102 | .PP
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| 103 | \-l|\-\-log\-basename=logdirectory
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| 104 | .RS 4
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| 105 | Base directory name for log/debug files\&. The extension
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| 106 | \fB"\&.progname"\fR
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| 107 | will be appended (e\&.g\&. log\&.smbclient, log\&.smbd, etc\&.\&.\&.)\&. The log file is never removed by the client\&.
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| 108 | .RE
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| 109 | .PP
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| 110 | \-h|\-\-help
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| 111 | .RS 4
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| 112 | Print a summary of command line options\&.
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| 113 | .RE
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| 114 | .SH "INSTALLATION"
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| 115 | .PP
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| 116 | Swat is included as binary package with most distributions\&. The package manager in this case takes care of the installation and configuration\&. This section is only for those who have compiled swat from scratch\&.
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| 117 | .PP
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| 118 | After you compile SWAT you need to run
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| 119 | make install
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| 120 | to install the
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| 121 | swat
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| 122 | binary and the various help files and images\&. A default install would put these in:
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| 123 | .sp
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| 124 | .RS 4
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| 125 | .ie n \{\
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| 126 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 127 | .\}
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| 128 | .el \{\
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| 129 | .sp -1
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| 130 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 131 | .\}
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| 132 | /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat
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| 133 | .RE
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| 134 | .sp
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| 135 | .RS 4
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| 136 | .ie n \{\
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| 137 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 138 | .\}
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| 139 | .el \{\
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| 140 | .sp -1
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| 141 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 142 | .\}
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| 143 | /usr/local/samba/swat/images/*
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| 144 | .RE
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| 145 | .sp
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| 146 | .RS 4
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| 147 | .ie n \{\
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| 148 | \h'-04'\(bu\h'+03'\c
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| 149 | .\}
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| 150 | .el \{\
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| 151 | .sp -1
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| 152 | .IP \(bu 2.3
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| 153 | .\}
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| 154 | /usr/local/samba/swat/help/*
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| 155 | .sp
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| 156 | .RE
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| 157 | .SS "Inetd Installation"
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| 158 | .PP
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| 159 | You need to edit your
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| 160 | /etc/inetd\&.conf
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| 161 | and
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| 162 | /etc/services
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| 163 | to enable SWAT to be launched via
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| 164 | inetd\&.
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| 165 | .PP
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| 166 | In
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| 167 | /etc/services
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| 168 | you need to add a line like this:
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| 169 | .PP
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| 170 | swat 901/tcp
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| 171 | .PP
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| 172 | Note for NIS/YP and LDAP users \- you may need to rebuild the NIS service maps rather than alter your local
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| 173 | /etc/services
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| 174 | file\&.
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| 175 | .PP
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| 176 | 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
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| 177 | inetd
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| 178 | daemon)\&.
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| 179 | .PP
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| 180 | In
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| 181 | /etc/inetd\&.conf
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| 182 | you should add a line like this:
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| 183 | .PP
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| 184 | swat stream tcp nowait\&.400 root /usr/local/samba/sbin/swat swat
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| 185 | .PP
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| 186 | Once you have edited
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| 187 | /etc/services
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| 188 | and
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| 189 | /etc/inetd\&.conf
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| 190 | you need to send a HUP signal to inetd\&. To do this use
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| 191 | kill \-1 PID
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| 192 | where PID is the process ID of the inetd daemon\&.
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| 193 | .SH "LAUNCHING"
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| 194 | .PP
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| 195 | To launch SWAT just run your favorite web browser and point it at "http://localhost:901/"\&.
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| 196 | .PP
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| 197 | 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\&.
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| 198 | .SH "FILES"
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| 199 | .PP
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| 200 | /etc/inetd\&.conf
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| 201 | .RS 4
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| 202 | This file must contain suitable startup information for the meta\-daemon\&.
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| 203 | .RE
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| 204 | .PP
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| 205 | /etc/services
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| 206 | .RS 4
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| 207 | This file must contain a mapping of service name (e\&.g\&., swat) to service port (e\&.g\&., 901) and protocol type (e\&.g\&., tcp)\&.
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| 208 | .RE
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| 209 | .PP
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| 210 | /usr/local/samba/lib/smb\&.conf
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| 211 | .RS 4
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| 212 | This is the default location of the
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| 213 | \fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
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| 214 | server configuration file that swat edits\&. Other common places that systems install this file are
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| 215 | /usr/samba/lib/smb\&.conf
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| 216 | and
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| 217 | /etc/smb\&.conf\&. This file describes all the services the server is to make available to clients\&.
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| 218 | .RE
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| 219 | .SH "WARNINGS"
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| 220 | .PP
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| 221 | swat
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| 222 | will rewrite your
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| 223 | \fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
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| 224 | file\&. It will rearrange the entries and delete all comments,
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| 225 | \fIinclude=\fR
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| 226 | and
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| 227 | \fIcopy= \fR
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| 228 | options\&. If you have a carefully crafted
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| 229 | smb\&.conf
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| 230 | then back it up or don\'t use swat!
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| 231 | .SH "VERSION"
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| 232 | .PP
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| 233 | This man page is correct for version 3 of the Samba suite\&.
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| 234 | .SH "SEE ALSO"
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| 235 | .PP
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| 236 | inetd(5),
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| 237 | \fBsmbd\fR(8),
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| 238 | \fBsmb.conf\fR(5)
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| 239 | .SH "AUTHOR"
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| 240 | .PP
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| 241 | 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\&.
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| 242 | .PP
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| 243 | 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
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| 244 | ftp://ftp\&.icce\&.rug\&.nl/pub/unix/) and updated for the Samba 2\&.0 release by Jeremy Allison\&. The conversion to DocBook for Samba 2\&.2 was done by Gerald Carter\&. The conversion to DocBook XML 4\&.2 for Samba 3\&.0 was done by Alexander Bokovoy\&.
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