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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Hp ML350e Gen8 Server
« on: September 29, 2014, 05:26:11 pm »
Nice server, however when it comes to enterprise hardware you often have to rely on closed source/binary drivers from the vendor. In this instance there is no Ubuntu 14.04 driver for the std raid card in an ML350e. However it is basically a software controller so unless you have the optional RAM installed on it you may not be losing out too much by simply using Linux Software Raid. If you google the B120i you will find reference to an unstable driver in an HP repo, no idea how safe it is to try. I think the same is true of your network card.
You will probably find this quite often with up to date Ubuntu versions, drivers and complex applications test and certify themselves against Redhat and Suse, ubuntu comes last, if at all.

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Highly unlikely what I am about to say is the cause of your issue IMHO but .local is bad idea to use as a TLD as it is reserved for and used by other services that you might possibly have on your network.
Ideally you should should use your external real domain and then stick something in front of it e.g branch.domain.com, you would then have a server FQDN that looks something like servername.branch.domain.com.
Arguably many small businesses that do not plan to operate on multiple sites or with multiple sub-domains can get away with made up .gibbgerish TLD's but there are many arguments against it. Perhaps the best is that you cannot get a real Certificate issued against a made-up domain.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Backup fails with Intel RAID
« on: September 29, 2014, 12:34:27 pm »
It is considered by some, a better idea to simply use Linux software raid and leave the Intel/BIOS raid settings as separate drives. Both are essentially software modes where the CPU does all the heavy lifting. However potentially the Bios RAID might be tied you your motherboard implementation or contain bugs that never get fixed, pure mdadm software Raid means you can easily move the array to another machine.
With storage so cheap these days you will seem more people advocating RAID 10 compared to 5, its faster and less CPU intensive.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: 2nd Hard Drive not seen
« on: September 26, 2014, 05:41:37 pm »
You could also look at Duplicati - incremental backup with VSS support and nothing needed on the server side. It supports backing up over SSH, ftp, CIFS, Amazon S3 WebDav and many others, I run it on my machine, without noticeable overhead.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: 2nd Hard Drive not seen
« on: September 26, 2014, 05:08:47 pm »
Zentyal doesn't have much in the way of disk manage in it web management interface. So you can basically google how to locate format and mount drives in Ubuntu and then apply that to Zentyal.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive once you have the drive mounted you can use it as you please.
I have seen a few people report some GUI programs do not load when their icon is clicked, maybe try invoking them form the command line, that way you may be able to see any errors.
Of course if you are running a domain with roaming profiles you could argue there is less need to backup the machines as the user data is stored on the server anyway.
You could also look at BURP, so you get VSS like bacula without the complexity

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: What about shellshock in Zentyal
« on: September 26, 2014, 04:56:13 pm »
There was a bash update available to install today, I would guess it was the partial fix and another one will follow. It will have come from Ubuntu, no idea if there will/should be an official Zentyal approved/tested update for commercial versions.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: RDP to Zentyal
« on: September 25, 2014, 04:28:23 pm »
As in you would like to display your Zentyal desktop/applications on your windows desktop?
You can use Xming or x2go or freenx to achieve that. Xming works without needing to install anything extra as it uses standard Linux concepts, the other two run a daemon on Zentyal.
Having said that, why would you need to? All Zentyal options are available on the webgui, and the CLI you can access using putty.

If you are trying to attempt the reverse (display windows on your X desktop), I'm sure there are several RDP clients in the ubuntu repo's

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Install webmin on just about any Distro and you can avoid the CLI most of the time. Of course webmin does expose a whole lot of things you can tweak, some of which are best left alone.
Plenty of people can and do use the community edition for production purposes but my experience and that of several others is that since version 3 its a far more risky proposition than it was in the version 2 branch as they are using the community version to test out shiny new things.
In many ways I miss using a Vanilla distro with webmin on top for when I couldn't be bothered to use the command line or remember what config file it was I needed to edit. ClearOS, Zentyal, UCS, or SMEServer all bring strong integrated features to the table but with them come a whole bag of restrictions if you want to do something a little different. Of course if you are already deploying VM's you get to pick and choose the best option for each use case, you could have a separate VM for file serving, domain management, email, development, deployment etc and be confident that nothing you want to add or try in the future will break something else.

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Funs stuff like this :
Some modules reported error when saving changes . More information on the logs in /var/log/zentyal/

FATAL: Could not connect to samba LDAP server: connect: Connection refused FATAL: Could not connect to samba LDAP server: connect: Connection refused at FATAL: Could not connect to samba LDAP server: connect: Connection refused at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Ldap.pm line 219 EBox::Ldap::safeConnect('EBox::Ldap=HASH(0x5f6b340)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Ldap.pm line 173 EBox::Ldap::connection('EBox::Ldap=HASH(0x5f6b340)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Ldap.pm line 505 EBox::Ldap::rootDse('EBox::Ldap=HASH(0x5f6b340)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Module/Kerberos.pm line 114 EBox::Module::Kerberos::_kerberosServiceAccountDN('EBox::Mail=HASH(0x4289190)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Module/Kerberos.pm line 202 EBox::Module::Kerberos::_kerberosCreateServiceAccount('EBox::Mail=HASH(0x4289190)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Module/Kerberos.pm line 350 EBox::Module::Kerberos::_kerberosSetup('EBox::Mail=HASH(0x4289190)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Module/Kerberos.pm line 367 EBox::Module::Kerberos::_regenConfig('EBox::Mail=HASH(0x4289190)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Module/Base.pm line 234 eval {...} at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Module/Base.pm line 233 EBox::Module::Base::save('EBox::Mail=HASH(0x4289190)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/GlobalImpl.pm line 658 eval {...} at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/GlobalImpl.pm line 657 EBox::GlobalImpl::saveAllModules('EBox::GlobalImpl=HASH(0x2c9e760)', 'progress', 'EBox::ProgressIndicator=HASH(0xf62b80)') called at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/Global.pm line 95 EBox::Global::AUTOLOAD('EBox::Global=HASH(0x2c9e1c0)', 'progress', 'EBox::ProgressIndicator=HASH(0xf62b80)') called at /usr/share/zentyal/global-action line 32 eval {...} at /usr/share/zentyal/global-action line 30

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Jolly good so the reason Samba/Users module crashes and fails all the time really is because its crap, not because of my weird network, nice.

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The updates issued for the community edition are essentially the ones that are good enough for ubuntu, no extra testing has been put in to making sure they don't break or upset something in Zentyal. As such that is fairly common, you often find larger projects with an open & commerical flavour also include specific versions of libraries they are compiled against that they know function as intended and you replace those with newer versions from other sources at your own risk. In addition the only supported version of the Community Edition is the current one, if you don't keep up to date for whatever reason the only updates you will see are those standard libraries, kernels etc, security updates for your Zentyal modules will not be forthcoming.
Zentyal is increasingly focused on Active directory and Exchange support, if all you want is a file server and are happy with the stable features of Samba 3  I would look at one of the many NAS type distributions such as FreeNAS.               

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Correct I don't, but I have read plenty of people complaining that 3.X doesn't like setups where the machine only has an internal interface.

At some point when I am feeling brave I would like,possibly, to migrate our old 2.2 server to 4.0, a proper domain seems potentially usefull to out setup and I'm essentially using the client server a a test bed because they don't really use it.

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Greetings all,
I have had a slightly complex/odd network setup for a while now and am wondering whether it is in any part causing some of the issues I have seen getting Samba4 to run on the Zentyal 3.x box.

Historically we had a simple setup ADSL Router->Switch->All PC's and Zentyal 2.2 connected to the switch with the router providing DHCP and gateway services (Zentyal IP and DNS locked in the router settings). The PC's are simply using a standard windows workgroup and Zentyal provides email via Zarafa and a selection of file shares. This essentially works as planned, the only issue being that Windows 7 machines do not seem to want to automatically connect to their mapped network drives.
More recently we had to add a second network to serve a client who now uses our building and infrastructure. To do this I connected our existing network switch to a Port based VLAN on our router and connected the client switch to another VLAN so they can share ADSL connection. The router provides IP's via DHCP to each VLAN and they each have their own distinct subnet.
On the client network I installed a server running Zentyal 3.? with Openchange that I setup and never used and a number of file shares. I connected the 2nd Lan port on this server to our VLAN so that I can access and administer it from my machine on our network. This seemed to work once a few teething problems sorted themselves out but updates or small configuration tweaks frequently caused errors when saving changes and on several occasions render Samba unable to start.

So questions:
Is Samba 4 getting upset or confused because BOTH of the LAN's it is connected to are internal networks and there are no "external" ones?
Is there a more optimal network arrangement that gets me the same result?


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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Horrible Forum
« on: September 11, 2014, 02:52:14 pm »
CNServices, as I have opined in other threads I believe it is a mistake to make the Community release the unstable bleeding edge release. The development release should stay in the Beta channel for those who never intend to deploy it in live environment. As you say the community version in its current form makes it difficult for the community to assist one and other as for various reasons they may be stuck on older versions. In addition because the community release is not as stable as it might be, when it is deployed ( as it is in many live production environments)  and then problems crop up people are annoyed, impatient and sometimes rude.
It is a difficult path to tread with open source on how to differentiate between the freely available community edition and the commercial offering, currently the safe bet is perhaps to install the trial 3.2 commercial release and continue to use it once the trial has expired but not let it update itself to the bleeding edge community version once that expires.

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