Chapter 31. SWAT The Samba Web Administration Tool

Chapter 31. SWAT ” The Samba Web Administration Tool

There are many and varied opinions regarding the usefulness of SWAT. No matter how hard one tries to produce the perfect configuration tool, it remains an object of personal taste. SWAT is a tool that will allow Web-based configuration of Samba. It has a wizard that may help to get Samba configured quickly, it has context-sensitive help on each smb.conf parameter, it provides for monitoring of current state of connection information, and it allows network-wide MS Windows network password management.