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Re: [cobalt-users] Using Samba with SWAT GUI



At 02:20 PM 8/11/01 -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
>Has anyone used the SWAT GUI interface to Samba. If enbable, you can access
>Samba configuration through an HTML GUI on port 901. However, this passes
>root authentication when logging in. So, since I can only access my Cobalt
>RaQ3 through a public IP address, I need to do it securely. I tried
>generating an SSL cert for the server, but port 901 just hangs when trying
>to access using 'https'. Does anyone use this config utility? How are you
>accessing it securely? Or maybe how to get the SSL to work?

Use stunnel for port forwarding.  Bind SWAT's server to only the localhost
interface.

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