On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 21:08:45 +1300 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 20:10:40 +1300, you wrote: > > >On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:26, Steve Holdoway wrote: > >> However, you may not have swat available, as it's quite new. You > >can> download the latest source from www.samba.org, or learn to edit > >> smb.conf manually (: > > > >absolute rubbish, swat has been around for ages and ages. At least > >since 1999! > > Well, 2.0.2x kernels were early 2000, and i don't think swat was > included as standard in Debian kernels of that age. Samba was a mature > product at that time, but ... > > There were a lot of security issues with the early versions, too. > swat has nothing to do with the kernel. it is part of the samba suite, it means "samba web administration tool". It runs a server on port 901 and configures and controls samba, and provides easy access to the documentation. A quick look at the samba source and the samba website could not locate a CHANGELOG, but http://samba.mirror.aarnet.edu.au/samba/whatsnew/ shows reference to this in 1999: "(11th November) O'Reilly have released their new book Using Samba under an open content license! The book has been adopted by the Samba Team as the "official" Samba book and we will strive to keep it up to date. O'Reilly have sent us the full sources for the book and we will be making it available online as soon as we can, we just need to work out some formatting and conversion issues. We also plan to make it directly accessible from SWAT. A huge thanks to O'Reilly for this great step forward in the documentation of Samba!" clearly swat was a part of samba already at that stage. > Steve > >
