Webmin Use for swat

I downloaded and installed webmin for RHL 9. It comes up nicely but when I go to
Globals and try to modify workgroups by entering GALAXY as the workgroup, it resets
the entry when I press "set default". How do I set the value to GALAXY?

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On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:41:16 GMT, "W. Watson"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I downloaded and installed webmin for RHL 9. It comes up nicely but when I go to
>Globals and try to modify workgroups by entering GALAXY as the workgroup, it resets
>the entry when I press "set default". How do I set the value to GALAXY?

Good gods! Set the workgroup to GALAXY, then hit commit changes.
Pressing "set default" sets the field to the default value.

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Michael W Cocke wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:41:16 GMT, "W. Watson"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>I downloaded and installed webmin for RHL 9. It comes up nicely but when I go to
>>Globals and try to modify workgroups by entering GALAXY as the workgroup, it resets
>>the entry when I press "set default". How do I set the value to GALAXY?
>
>
> Good gods! Set the workgroup to GALAXY, then hit commit changes.
> Pressing "set default" sets the field to the default value.
>
> Mike-
>


Yes, thanks, I finally discovered it. I believe this is a matter of computer culture.
Certainly in my experience a novel way to update.

I'm now into webmin, but the Samba documentation seems flawed, particularly at steps
18/19.

I decided to try out the Howto at <http://www.webmin.com/samba-howto.html>. It was
going fine until I got to step 13. I think the author meant "only allow" instead of
"hosts allow". That was small potatoes though. At step 16, I think instead of "homes
share" it should be "homes share in the rectangular box". Again small potatoes. Then
step 16 seems to flow into 17. The word 'screen' on step 17 should be at the end of
step 16. This goes badly at 18. Something goes awry when going to the Authentication
icon. The items in 19 don't appear there. Authentication deals with passwords not IP
addresses. Where did I go wrong or where did 18/19 go wrong?

A minor point at step 8. homes instead of home.

I ended by executing step 21, but have no idea what state this is all in now. I guess
I'll be able to return directly to 18/19 if they get ironed out.

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(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet
(Formerly Homo habilis, erectus, heidelbergensis and now sapiens)

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On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:20:54 GMT, "W. Watson"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Michael W Cocke wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:41:16 GMT, "W. Watson"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>

[snipped]

>
>I'm now into webmin, but the Samba documentation seems flawed, particularly at steps
>18/19.
>
>I decided to try out the Howto at <http://www.webmin.com/samba-howto.html>. It was
>going fine until I got to step 13. I think the author meant "only allow" instead of
>"hosts allow". That was small potatoes though. At step 16, I think instead of "homes
>share" it should be "homes share in the rectangular box". Again small potatoes. Then
>step 16 seems to flow into 17. The word 'screen' on step 17 should be at the end of
>step 16. This goes badly at 18. Something goes awry when going to the Authentication
>icon. The items in 19 don't appear there. Authentication deals with passwords not IP
>addresses. Where did I go wrong or where did 18/19 go wrong?
>
>A minor point at step 8. homes instead of home.
>
>I ended by executing step 21, but have no idea what state this is all in now. I guess
>I'll be able to return directly to 18/19 if they get ironed out.


You need to remember that you're running a fairly old distro - RH 9
was EOLd last year. This stuff, especially major subsystems like
samba, moves FAST!. IIRC, There have been at least 2 major updates to
Samba since RH9 was put to sleep. Quite likely that if you upgraded
your Samba to current the docs would make more sense. Also, SWAT is
an afterthought. If you want to get deeply into configuring Samba,
take a look in /etc/samba and the hornbill book (O'Reilly - Using
Samba)

Mike-

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Michael W Cocke wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:20:54 GMT, "W. Watson"
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>
>>Michael W Cocke wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 03:41:16 GMT, "W. Watson"
>>><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>>
>
>
> [snipped]
>
>
>>I'm now into webmin, but the Samba documentation seems flawed, particularly at steps
>>18/19.
>>
>>I decided to try out the Howto at <http://www.webmin.com/samba-howto.html>. It was
>>going fine until I got to step 13. I think the author meant "only allow" instead of
>>"hosts allow". That was small potatoes though. At step 16, I think instead of "homes
>>share" it should be "homes share in the rectangular box". Again small potatoes. Then
>>step 16 seems to flow into 17. The word 'screen' on step 17 should be at the end of
>>step 16. This goes badly at 18. Something goes awry when going to the Authentication
>>icon. The items in 19 don't appear there. Authentication deals with passwords not IP
>>addresses. Where did I go wrong or where did 18/19 go wrong?
>>
>>A minor point at step 8. homes instead of home.
>>
>>I ended by executing step 21, but have no idea what state this is all in now. I guess
>>I'll be able to return directly to 18/19 if they get ironed out.
>
>
>
> You need to remember that you're running a fairly old distro - RH 9
> was EOLd last year. This stuff, especially major subsystems like
> samba, moves FAST!. IIRC, There have been at least 2 major updates to
> Samba since RH9 was put to sleep. Quite likely that if you upgraded
> your Samba to current the docs would make more sense. Also, SWAT is
> an afterthought. If you want to get deeply into configuring Samba,
> take a look in /etc/samba and the hornbill book (O'Reilly - Using
> Samba)
>
> Mike-
>
> --
> If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs...
> You may have a great career as a network administrator ahead!
> --
> Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed
> site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces,
> try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments,
Actually, I updated it to 3.0.9. I believe that's right. Whatever the latest is on
the updates.redhat.com ftp site is.

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Wayne T. Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA)
(121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time)
Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet

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