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diff --git a/docs/htmldocs/SWAT.html b/docs/htmldocs/SWAT.html index 74433130ff..b4067d75d8 100644 --- a/docs/htmldocs/SWAT.html +++ b/docs/htmldocs/SWAT.html @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> -<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="migration.html" title="Part IV. Migration and Updating"><link rel="previous" href="NT4Migration.html" title="Chapter 31. Migration from NT4 PDC to Samba-3 PDC"><link rel="next" href="troubleshooting.html" title="Part V. Troubleshooting"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NT4Migration.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part IV. Migration and Updating</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="troubleshooting.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="SWAT"></a>Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="othername">H.</span> <span class="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:jht@samba.org">jht@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">April 21, 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3001807">Features and Benefits</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3001657">Enabling SWAT for use</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3002547">Securing SWAT through SSL</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3002659">The SWAT Home Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3002723">Global Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3002828">Share Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3002893">Printers Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3002957">The SWAT Wizard</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003005">The Status Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003057">The View Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003080">The Password Change Page</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p> +<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="samba.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.60.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="SAMBA Project Documentation"><link rel="up" href="migration.html" title="Part IV. Migration and Updating"><link rel="previous" href="NT4Migration.html" title="Chapter 31. Migration from NT4 PDC to Samba-3 PDC"><link rel="next" href="troubleshooting.html" title="Part V. Troubleshooting"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="NT4Migration.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Part IV. Migration and Updating</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="troubleshooting.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="chapter" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="SWAT"></a>Chapter 32. SWAT - The Samba Web Administration Tool</h2></div><div><div class="author"><h3 class="author"><span class="firstname">John</span> <span class="othername">H.</span> <span class="surname">Terpstra</span></h3><div class="affiliation"><span class="orgname">Samba Team<br></span><div class="address"><p><tt class="email"><<a href="mailto:jht@samba.org">jht@samba.org</a>></tt></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="pubdate">April 21, 2003</p></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003929">Features and Benefits</a></dt><dd><dl><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3003963">Enabling SWAT for use</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006322">Securing SWAT through SSL</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006435">The SWAT Home Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006499">Global Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006604">Share Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006669">Printers Settings</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006733">The SWAT Wizard</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006781">The Status Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006833">The View Page</a></dt><dt><a href="SWAT.html#id3006856">The Password Change Page</a></dt></dl></dd></dl></div><p> There are many and varied opinions regarding the usefulness or otherwise of SWAT. No matter how hard one tries to produce the perfect configuration tool it remains an object of personal taste. SWAT is a tool that will allow web based configuration @@ -7,7 +6,7 @@ of samba. It has a wizard that may help to get samba configured quickly, it has sensitive help on each smb.conf parameter, it provides for monitoring of current state of connection information, and it allows network wide MS Windows network password management. -</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3001807"></a>Features and Benefits</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p><div class="sect1" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="id3003929"></a>Features and Benefits</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p> There are network administrators who believe that it is a good idea to write systems documentation inside configuration files, for them SWAT will aways be a nasty tool. SWAT does not store the configuration file in any intermediate form, rather, it stores only the @@ -19,7 +18,7 @@ internal ordering. So before using SWAT please be warned - SWAT will completely replace your smb.conf with a fully optimised file that has been stripped of all comments you might have placed there and only non-default settings will be written to the file. -</p></div><div xmlns:ns95="" class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3001657"></a>Enabling SWAT for use</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3003963"></a>Enabling SWAT for use</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> SWAT should be installed to run via the network super daemon. Depending on which system your Unix/Linux system has you will have either an <b class="command">inetd</b> or <b class="command">xinetd</b> based system. @@ -35,8 +34,8 @@ The control entry for the older style file might be: swat stream tcp nowait.400 root /usr/sbin/swat swat </pre><p> A control file for the newer style xinetd could be: -</p><ns95:p> -</ns95:p><pre class="programlisting"> +</p><p> +</p><pre class="programlisting"> # default: off # description: SWAT is the Samba Web Admin Tool. Use swat \ # to configure your Samba server. To use SWAT, \ @@ -52,9 +51,9 @@ A control file for the newer style xinetd could be: log_on_failure += USERID disable = yes } -</pre><ns95:p> +</pre><p> -</ns95:p><p> +</p><p> Both the above examples assume that the <b class="command">swat</b> binary has been located in the <tt class="filename">/usr/sbin</tt> directory. In addition to the above SWAT will use a directory access point from which it will load it's help files @@ -73,48 +72,48 @@ So long as you log onto SWAT as the user <span class="emphasis"><em>root</em></s full change and commit ability. The buttons that will be exposed includes: <span class="guibutton">HOME</span>, <span class="guibutton">GLOBALS</span>, <span class="guibutton">SHARES</span>, <span class="guibutton">PRINTERS</span>, <span class="guibutton">WIZARD</span>, <span class="guibutton">STATUS</span>, <span class="guibutton">VIEW</span>, <span class="guibutton">PASSWORD</span>. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3002547"></a>Securing SWAT through SSL</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006322"></a>Securing SWAT through SSL</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> Lots of people have asked about how to setup SWAT with SSL to allow for secure remote administration of Samba. Here is a method that works, courtesy of Markus Krieger </p><p> Modifications to the swat setup are as following: </p><div class="procedure"><ol type="1"><li><p> install OpenSSL - </p></li><li xmlns:ns96=""><ns96:p> + </p></li><li><p> generate certificate and private key - </ns96:p><pre class="screen"> + </p><pre class="screen"> <tt class="prompt">root# </tt><b class="userinput"><tt>/usr/bin/openssl req -new -x509 -days 365 -nodes -config \ /usr/share/doc/packages/stunnel/stunnel.cnf \ -out /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem -keyout /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem</tt></b> </pre></li><li><p> remove swat-entry from [x]inetd - </p></li><li xmlns:ns97=""><ns97:p> + </p></li><li><p> start stunnel - </ns97:p><pre class="screen"> + </p><pre class="screen"> <tt class="prompt">root# </tt><b class="userinput"><tt>stunnel -p /etc/stunnel/stunnel.pem -d 901 \ -l /usr/local/samba/bin/swat swat </tt></b> </pre></li></ol></div><p> -afterwards simply contact to swat by using the URL <a href="https://myhost:901" target="_top">https://myhost:901</a>, accept the certificate +afterwords simply contact to swat by using the URL <a href="https://myhost:901" target="_top">https://myhost:901</a>, accept the certificate and the SSL connection is up. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3002659"></a>The SWAT Home Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006435"></a>The SWAT Home Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> The SWAT title page provides access to the latest Samba documentation. The manual page for each samba component is accessible from this page as are the Samba-HOWTO-Collection (this document) as well as the O'Reilly book "Using Samba". </p><p> Administrators who wish to validate their samba configuration may obtain useful information -from the man pages for the diganostic utilities. These are available from the SWAT home page +from the man pages for the diagnostic utilities. These are available from the SWAT home page also. One diagnostic tool that is NOT mentioned on this page, but that is particularly useful is <b class="command">ethereal</b>, available from <a href="http://www.ethereal.com" target="_top"> http://www.ethereal.com</a>. </p><div class="warning" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Warning</h3><p> SWAT can be configured to run in <span class="emphasis"><em>demo</em></span> mode. This is NOT recommended as it runs SWAT without authentication and with full administrative ability. ie: Allows -changes to smb.conf as well as general operation with root privilidges. The option that +changes to smb.conf as well as general operation with root privileges. The option that creates this ability is the <tt class="option">-a</tt> flag to swat. <span class="emphasis"><em>Do not use this in any production environment.</em></span> -</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3002723"></a>Global Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006499"></a>Global Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> The Globals button will expose a page that allows configuration of the global parameters in smb.conf. There are three levels of exposure of the parameters: </p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul type="disc"><li><p> @@ -135,9 +134,9 @@ After making any changes to configuration parameters make sure that you click on your changes will be immediately lost. </p><div class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p> SWAT has context sensitive help. To find out what each parameter is for simply click the -<span class="guibutton">Help</span> link to the left of the configurartion parameter. -</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3002828"></a>Share Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> -To affect a currenly configured share, simply click on the pull down button between the +<span class="guibutton">Help</span> link to the left of the configuration parameter. +</p></div></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006604"></a>Share Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +To affect a currently configured share, simply click on the pull down button between the <span class="guibutton">Choose Share</span> and the <span class="guibutton">Delete Share</span> buttons, select the share you wish to operate on, then to edit the settings click on the <span class="guibutton">Choose Share</span> button, to delete the share simply press the @@ -146,8 +145,8 @@ select the share you wish to operate on, then to edit the settings click on the To create a new share, next to the button labelled <span class="guibutton">Create Share</span> enter into the text field the name of the share to be created, then click on the <span class="guibutton">Create Share</span> button. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3002893"></a>Printers Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> -To affect a currenly configured printer, simply click on the pull down button between the +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006669"></a>Printers Settings</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +To affect a currently configured printer, simply click on the pull down button between the <span class="guibutton">Choose Printer</span> and the <span class="guibutton">Delete Printer</span> buttons, select the printer you wish to operate on, then to edit the settings click on the <span class="guibutton">Choose Printer</span> button, to delete the share simply press the @@ -156,23 +155,23 @@ select the printer you wish to operate on, then to edit the settings click on th To create a new printer, next to the button labelled <span class="guibutton">Create Printer</span> enter into the text field the name of the share to be created, then click on the <span class="guibutton">Create Printer</span> button. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3002957"></a>The SWAT Wizard</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> -The purpose if the SWAT Wizard is to help the Microsoft knowledgable network administrator +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006733"></a>The SWAT Wizard</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +The purpose if the SWAT Wizard is to help the Microsoft knowledgeable network administrator to configure Samba with a minimum of effort. </p><p> -The Wizard page provides a tool for rewiting the smb.conf file in fully optimised format. +The Wizard page provides a tool for rewriting the smb.conf file in fully optimised format. This will also happen if you press the commit button. The two differ in the the rewrite button ignores any changes that may have been made, while the Commit button causes all changes to be affected. </p><p> The <span class="guibutton">Edit</span> button permits the editing (setting) of the minimal set of -options that may be necessary to create a working samba server. +options that may be necessary to create a working Samba server. </p><p> -Finally, there are a limited set of options that will determine what type of server samba +Finally, there are a limited set of options that will determine what type of server Samba will be configured for, whether it will be a WINS server, participate as a WINS client, or -operate with no WINS support. By clicking on one button you can elect to epose (or not) user +operate with no WINS support. By clicking on one button you can elect to expose (or not) user home directories. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3003005"></a>The Status Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006781"></a>The Status Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> The status page serves a limited purpose. Firstly, it allows control of the samba daemons. The key daemons that create the samba server environment are: <span class="application">smbd</span>, <span class="application">nmbd</span>, <span class="application">winbindd</span>. </p><p> @@ -183,11 +182,11 @@ conditions with minimal effort. </p><p> Lastly, the Status page may be used to terminate specific smbd client connections in order to free files that may be locked. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3003057"></a>The View Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> -This page allows the administrator to view the optimised <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> file and if you are -particularly massochistic will permit you also to see all possible global configuration +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006833"></a>The View Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +This page allows the administrator to view the optimised <tt class="filename">smb.conf</tt> file and, if you are +particularly masochistic, will permit you also to see all possible global configuration parameters and their settings. -</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3003080"></a>The Password Change Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> +</p></div><div class="sect2" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="id3006856"></a>The Password Change Page</h3></div></div><div></div></div><p> The Password Change page is a popular tool. This tool allows the creation, deletion, deactivation and reactivation of MS Windows networking users on the local machine. Alternatively, you can use this tool to change a local password for a user account. |