I don't know if it matters or not, but do you have to give root an smb
account to use swat?

try 
smbpasswd -a root
and give it a new passwd...
I don't use swat, but that wwould be my first guess.

nathan

On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 08:35, mazdaracer wrote:
> I unloaded my Mandrake 8 distro of SAMBA and installed the 2.2.1a
> version.  After some fiddling, I was able to get the login prompt for
> swat. However, root/root's passwd is failing. May not be that bad since
> I can still vi the config file.
> 
> But it would be nice to use swat.  Do I need to re-install? BTW, I
> placed it in /usr/local/samba...
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