DFL,
I am afraid I have to concur with your opinions. I have used Zentyal for some time now at two sites. Whilst not a business installation, the servers contain multimedia and personal files for most of my family and many friends, the systems being linked via VPN, one master, one backup.
I am a retired network engineer and have to say that this version of Zentyal, 3.2, and all its various patches, Zentyal's strange implementation of Samba4, fixes and forlorn hopes, is one of the worst server based os/applications I have come across in many a long time.
Whilst the Community version is indeed free, there's nothing worse than a cheap meal you don't enjoy and I'm choking on this one. There seems to be no feedback from those at Zentyal on this forum regarding the mess that z3.2 has turned out to be. I would like to assume that there are fixes for those who pay for support. That being the case, are they being denied to community users?
I originally upgraded to 3.2. That was a fail. I have since installed afresh on four different systems, some several times, all with the same results, hassle, weird failures, segfaults and samba being way, way down the river. Sharing being the essence of a server and its ability to so do currently makes 3.2 unstable at best, useless at worst.
The only solutions I can think about, at present, are revert back to and earlier and functional version or go elsewhere. Without Z3.2 being thoroughly fixed in early course, I think I may have to depart the Zentyal scene.
Should I have read the situation incorrectly, I am willing to be corrected, chastised if necessary.
Enjoy your day.