On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:38:45 -0700, David Christensen wrote: > I am running a Debian 5.0.6 Lenny desktop machine. I wanted to share > some files and a printer over the LAN with Linux, BSD, and/or Windows > machines. So, I installed Samba and SWAT. Browsing to localhost:901 > (with Iceweasel) yielded "Failed to Connect" errors. > > RTFM, STFW, vi /etc/inetd.conf, vi /etc/services, find /etc -name > "*swat*", find /var/log -name "*swat*", grep swat /var/log/*, etc. -- no > luck. > > On a hunch, I rebooted the machine and SWAT now works.
Is it still working? > What would have been the steps to start SWAT without rebooting? Where > is this documented? Why doesn't the swat package do so when installed? > Is this a feature or a bug? Maybe beacuse inetd service was not running/configured the first time :-? OTOH, I think SWAT is being unmaintained (or so it says Debian package description for squeeze) and you should avoid using it. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.09.08.14.00...@gmail.com
