Samba Server - Swat

[Ed Greshko]

William W. Hammond wrote:
> Thanks to everyone  I now have Ubuntu 7.10 Server Installed.
> Added Xubuntu Desktop.
> Now I have both a command line and GUI (on request).
> 
> Accessing Swat from Firefox "localhost:901"
> I get a home page with four buttons:  HOME STATUS VIEW PASSWORD.
> 
> The Home Button is a very helpful "Manual" of command line options. But...
> 
> I recall swat having actual tools to create Groups, Users, Shares etc.
> and edit the smb.conf  file. But I don't see any of that.
> 
> What am I missing...?

Did you authenticate as "root"?  I suspect not.....

You need to first change the root password to a known value "sudo passwd 
root" and then connect to swat again using "root" as the un and the password 
you picked as the password.