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SWAT in 60 seconds

Q. What is SWAT?
A. It’s the “Samba Web Administration Tool”

Q. What can I use it for?
A. (shrug )Maybe to quickly setup a SAMBA server etc. 😉 from following my previous howto.
A2. It does have some good info even if you don’t use it for your SMB configuration.

We all know it’s best to use the command line interface (CLI) when learning something,
and most GUI tools don’t give you all the options anyway. However, it’s nice to have a GUI tool when you’re in a rush or you just want to try something new without digging for hours.

This article assumes you have already installed SAMBA.  See my previous article if you haven’t.

According to the SWAT docs, it will overwrite you current SMB.conf,
so you may want to backup your current one first.

# Backup the current smb.conf
sudo cp --preserve=context /etc/samba/smb.conf /etc/samba/smb.conf.pre-swat

# Install the SWAT tool
sudo yum install -y samba-swat

# Set the service to launch and start it up
sudo vi /etc/xinetd.d/swat (change the disable from yes to no)
sudo /sbin/service xinetd restart

# Browse to
http://localhost:901/

* Addtional Info:
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/SWAT.html

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