Samba Server

[Michael Zoet]

> Since I just installed swat sudo apt-get install swat
> I forgot about checking initd,
> The command doesn't fail, it just doesn't come up and I have
> to do a ctrl+c to abort.
>   
There is no init.d script for swat, because it is started by inetd (or
xinetd, or another super daemon, depending what you use for this). Just
try to find out what you are using (inetd, xinetd, something else) and
look in the configuration file if swat is setup correctly. Feel free to
ask if you need help for this.
> Your a brave man for using vi,
>   
<OFFTOPIC>
Oh then I am brave, too ;-). As several other Unix/Linux admins ;-). vi
(and maybe emacs, too) is really good for editing configuration files!
But you have to learn the "vi way". I can only recommend to try it.
There are a lot of tutorials and "How Tos" in the net. And you can
rescue a Unix/Linux system with it, even when al these nice GUIs break
apart.
</OFFTOPIC>
>
> Some books recommend X with something like Windowmaker, but I don't see those
> options with Ubuntu
>   
I think you should try and read Ubuntu documentation first, before you
try some other documentation.

Two great resource is the Ubuntu Wiki:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/

and

https://help.ubuntu.com/

And several good forums and localized websites. (For germany it is
wiki.ubuntuuser.de)

Here are three links that might help you:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ComprehensiveSambaGuide?highlight=(Samba)

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSambaPDC

and you really should read

man swat

And search the web for "setting up SWAT in Ubuntu" or something similar.

And I can not resist to say this: all I ever needed to configure a SAMBA
server was the vi and SWAT. This works great. Even on complex networks.

Hope this helps,

Michael