Welcome to SWAT!<p> This is a online demonstration of the current version of the Samba Web Administration Tool. This tool is still being written so you'll find it looks very rough at this stage.<p> Normally this opening page would contain the (as yet unwritten) welcome blurb for SWAT, giving basic instructions on how to use it. I've put this bit of waffle in its place for the moment. <p> Also note that SWAT normally demands authentication before showing you this page, otherwise anyone could modify your smb.conf! I've disabled that for this demo.<p> <H2>Features</H2> Here are some of the features we want to eventually incorporate.<p> <ul> <li> manage smbpasswd (add/delete users, change passwords etc) <li> be able to run the disgnosis steps from DIAGNOSIS.txt <li> wizard style config building </ul> There are also some obvious flaws with what has already been done: <ul> <li> help is ghastly <li> ordering of parameters needs to be looked at <li> images need redoing </ul> On the positive side, here are some good features of SWAT: <ul> <li> built in mini web server so you don't need a web server installed to manage a Samba server, you just need a browser <li> links to loadparm.c so it automatically makes available new parameters as they are added to Samba. <li> it's quite small (around 500 lines of code currently) <li> layout and dialog building is done automatically based on the type fields in loadparm.c </ul> <H2>Installation</H2> Before you install SWAT you need to realise that it is still work in progress. It does work but don't be totally surprised if you hit problems. Also make sure you are prepared to give us some feedback.<p> If you still want to install it then you will need to fetch the latest version of Samba via anonymous CVS. See <A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html">http://samba.anu.edu.au/cvs.html</A>. Then build and install Samba as usual and read the swat/README file that comes with the source. <H2>Feedback</H2> <A HREF="mailto:mtippett@linuxsa.org.au">Matthew Tippett</A> is the main one doing SWAT work besides myself. He is especially looking at the layout and GUI design of the system which is something I am terrible with :-)<p> -- <p> <A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/~tridge">Andrew Tridgell</A>