I don't know much about how this works as I have not played with it yet, 
  but I do have a question:

Are you signed on to '127.0.0.1' as root when you try your access?

rick wrote:
> I have performed many searches on Google in the last few weeks and all
> the results are similar but still no luck. Next I will try to configure
> the smb.conf but thought this would be easier??
> 
> Thank you all in advance
> Rick Sobba
> 
> 
> 
> When trying to access swat through Mozilla on Mandrake 9.0 under root I
> get the following error:
> 
> "The connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1:901"
> 
> This is what I have tried:
> 
> -With Open Office Writer I create an text file called swat
> -Location of this file is /etc/init.d
> 
> These are the 2 different config files I have tried:
> 
> service swat
> {
>   port=901
>   socket_type=stream
>   wait=no
>   only_from=127.0.0.1
>   #only_from=192.168.0.0
>   user=root
>   server=/usr/sbin/swat
>   log_on_failure+=USERID
>   #disable=yes
> }
> 
> -Restart xinetd by /etc/init.d/xinetd restart
> -From Mozilla I type in the folling url http://127.0.0.1:901
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I have also tried this config file:
> 
> service swat
> {
>   port=901
>   socket_type=stream
>   protocol=tcp  
>   wait=no
>   user=root  
>   server=/usr/sbin/swat
>   log_on_failure+=USERID
>   disable=no
>   only from locol_host
> }
> 
> -/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
> -Then try to connect through Mozilla 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>