3 This is a online demonstration of the current version of the Samba Web
4 Administration Tool. This tool is still being written so you'll find
5 it looks very rough at this stage.<p>
7 Normally this opening page would contain the (as yet unwritten) welcome
8 blurb for SWAT, giving basic instructions on how to use it. I've put
9 this bit of waffle in its place for the moment. <p>
11 Also note that SWAT normally demands authentication before showing you
12 this page, otherwise anyone could modify your smb.conf! I've disabled
13 that for this demo.<p>
17 Here are some of the features we want to eventually incorporate.<p>
20 <li> manage smbpasswd (add/delete users, change passwords etc)
21 <li> be able to run the disgnosis steps from DIAGNOSIS.txt
22 <li> be able to kill off individual connections
23 <li> wizard style config building
26 There are also some obvious flaws with what has already been done:
30 <li> ordering of parameters needs to be looked at
31 <li> images are just doodles
34 On the positive side, here are some good features of SWAT:
37 <li> built in mini web server so you don't need a web server installed to
38 manage a Samba server, you just need a browser
39 <li> links to loadparm.c so it automatically makes available new
40 parameters as they are added to Samba.
41 <li> it's quite small (around 500 lines of code currently)
42 <li> layout and dialog building is done automatically based on the type
46 <A HREF="mailto:mtippett@linuxsa.org.au">Matthew Tippett</A> is the
47 main one doing SWAT work besides myself. He is especially looking at
48 the layout and GUI design of the system which is something I am
52 <A HREF="http://samba.anu.edu.au/~tridge">Andrew Tridgell</A>