SWAT of samba 3.4.9 (stable) & 3.5.6 (testing) fails in the default xinetd configuration. In /etc/xinetd.d/swat you have to change only_from = localhost to only_from = 127.0.0.1 (and of of course set "disable = no", which is probably by intention and no bug) Maybe this is due to /etc/hosts entries like: 127.0.0.1 pc2.lan pc2 localhost Reproducible: Always