Ken,
   Had a simular problem when I installed 8.0 and then again with 8.1 if you go to 
/etc/xinetd.d and edit the swat file you will see a line that says disable=yes.  
Change that to disable=no and then /etc/init.d/xinetd restart.  This will reload 
xinetd with swat enabled.

James

On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 13:46:11 -0800 (PST)
Ken Nowack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello again,
> 
> Well, I had samba and swat both installed during the
> initial installation. After I got my network up and
> running I went to try the SWAT config tool to get
> samba running. It brings up a Konqueror window and
> gives the error "cannot connect to localhost port 901"
> 
> Ok, so I figure maybe bad install. So I verify my
> packages, still no dice. I check for upgrades, samba
> has a newer version package. So I download the rpm and
> install it. Then I start the samba services. Try swat
> again. No dice. I figure maybe bastille is
> interfering. I shut down bastille and try again, no
> dice. Hmmm.... The next thing I think is maybe I
> should verify apache is working properly. So I test
> apache. I bring up a window https://127.0.0.1. Bingo
> apache welcome page. Try swat again. No dice.
> 
> I figured maybe I should just go the webmin route to
> save me the hassle of figuring this issue out. I go to
> mandrakeuser.org docs. I pull up the doc's for https
> and webmin. I scan down a few lines and what does it
> say? It says to modify httpd.conf changing user and
> group to root. No way in heck I'm running it as root
> being the new admin that I am. So for fun I decide to
> try anyway, just to see. Edit the doc, restart httpd,
> failed. Apache doesn't want to let me run as root. So
> I figure webmin is out. 
> 
> So as a last ditch effort, I try the MCC. It at least
> has the basic config wizard. Maybe if I could get that
> far I could get swat working. The wizard gets to the
> second screen and reports that my network is not
> configured 'at all'. Now I'm completely confused. Not
> only is my network configured, not only is it
> currently working, but I even used the damn MCC to
> configure it (at first at least, the
> InteractiveBastille later).
> 
> What the heck should I try next?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ken
> 
> 
> 
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