[BC] SWAT and Samba stuff

[Jason R.]

Ok, so I'm taking my first headfirst dip into Samba / SWAT (on Xubuntu
9.04).  Ran the synapse downloader and pulled in the recommended updates.

  Slowly I break old habits, and try to learn a new language.  There seem to
be several different right ways to do a lot of things; I've printed probably
150 pages of somewhat oblique instructions directly from the 'official'
sites. '(x)inetd.d or inetd.conf' ... learning where /etc is as opposed to
going dir c:/ *.* /s /p --- or even load whatnot.vlm ... then I broke it,
and now I'm stuck.

.  I broke it trying to make it go GUI style.

  I *had* stuff working, I think, although the results weren't quite as
predicted.  I did hit my baby server from across the net, but had to do it
by knowing the IP.  Using the GUI as explained at bit-tech.com didn't fly.
No searching or such hit my server at all.  My server couldn't see across
the net. But it did ping good, and I got to it using "net use
\\servername\homes" - immediately came up and asked for a login. THEN
windoze was happy, and I could see my baby server in the list of stuff to
hit. Still couldn't see from Xubuntu to windows, though. (Dadgum windowx
commands don't mean nuthin' to Samba)

Next, I tried to set up the SWAT stuff.  Learned how to use apt-get, let it
do it's thing, life looked good.

 Next,  I tried http://swat:901, http://localhost:901;
http:/myserversname:901; http://127.0.0.1:901... to no avail.  In the top
right corner of the screen though, was an Icon for something called 'Gigolo'
and that worked a lot like the windoze network browser.  Couldn't hit the
windows machine across the web, but could see my own machine.  Tried a
reboot, started looking for a way to be sure the service was started, etc.

  Back to the books I go.  Edited inet.conf, and service. (one site said you
had to be sure the swat servicewas listed there with the other standard
ports.)
 searched the official sites, de-installed and re-installed the SWAT
packages... Lost the 'Gigolo' service in the process, still no response to
swat (although I did learn how to search it... using whereis, and a few
other commands.

  What'd I probably miss, how do I fix it, and where can I find a concise...
and useful... set of basic commands for this system  ( I still have to think
wayyy too much about whether I'm even at the right level... do I ALWAYS go
to sudo su first, for these things?  Is my login as admin on the machine not
good enough when it's asking for passwords all the time?)

I think the thing will be pretty cool, once I get the 'way to do things'
learned.  Right now it's like drinking from a fire hose, and there a LOTS of
ways to do everything, but they all read differently!

Ack!