Zentyal Desktop access in Remote https section.

[paolo_belotti]

Dear All,
I have installed autoscan and I can lunch its graphical interface from the Zentyal desktop.
Is it possible to lunch the graphical interface from the Zentyal dashboard? I am asking this as I don't know how to lunch Autoscan when I remote connect to Zentyal Deskopt by https.
Thanks in advance for your help
- Paolo

[robb]

Can you explain what 'autoscan' is?
I wouldn't go the patrh of using the Zentyal Webgui for this anyway. It might be easier to use an SSH connection and start it from a terminal.

If that needs to be an automatic task, have a look at Cron jobs

[paolo_belotti]

Hi Robb,
I am testing Zentyal as I think it can be the backbone of the ICT infrastructure for schools.
The first task is the audit of the local networking infrastructure. As a tool, I use autoscan-network that I usually install in a local window or linux machine.
Ideally, I would like to use a Zentyal server also for the audit of the local networking but, if I don't make mistake, in the distribution there is not a tool like autoscan-network. That's why I was trying to integrate, if possible in a easy way, the two graphical interfaces. Of course, it is alawys possible to lunch autoscan-network through a SSH connection using a small bash file.
Thanks
Paolo

[robb]

Hi Paolo,

First, I hope Zentyal can bring whatever it takes that you need to use in school. Some comforting news: already 80+ schools in the Aragon region in Spain have Zentyal running as their school server.

I have deployed a Zentyal server on a primary school in Belgium myself and it is running real smoothly.

As far as I can see autoscan-network is a tool that runs on a system account. There is no need for LDAP integration is there?
If so, you can just install auto-scan-network on a Zentyal server using the commandline and run the application with any local account.

btw, Zentyal is a set of packages on top of Ubuntu server. If you can install on Ubuntu, you most likely can install on a Zentyal server too.

I am curious how you use autoscan-network and how you interpret the diagnostics coming from the scan.

[Whissely79]

BTW I would like to be able to RDP into my Zentyal server. Not from outside the LAN, so I am not worried about security, I just want to be able to login to the desktop to move files around from folder to folder in the RAID, etc. Any ideas?

[robb]

You could install an application like thunar and use the thunar gui with an ssh session, but I have enough with the webgui and SSH/commandline.

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ssh -X user@ip.address thunar

Or if you use Ubuntu, just use Nautilus. It is capable to do remote connections:
http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/09/01/how-to-access-remote-linux-machine-files-through-ssh-from-gnome-file-browser-nautilus/

regards,
robb