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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Howto change the default User Home Folder Path in a SAMBA4 environment

« on: November 01, 2013, 04:02:17 pm »

I have a vested interest in changing the environmental variables for users to different home directories as well.  SSH connections don't seem to function properly in Windows utilizing network file locations mapped to drive letters.  They work fine with absolute paths so we are attempting to change the roaming variables so when a user logs onto a computer the home directory variables are an absolute path \\zentyal.domain.lan\user instead of the drive letter chosen at the file sharing screen.

I did not find the module you described using the most up to date versions of Zentyal and Samba.

Any insight into this would be great.  We are working to try and track it down ourselves so if we come up with anything we will post back here.

***EDIT
I found the module and am attempting the changes now.  I will post back with my results.  Thank you for your efforts and documenting it here!

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Failure to join secondary zentyal domain controller

« on: October 08, 2013, 10:35:15 pm »

This apparently was a known issue what was resolved with the updated system components:
DNS 3.2.1
Samba 3.2.3

I updated both via Software Components --> Zentyal Components --> Update

I didn't realize this section was there in addition to the 'System Updates' section that is shown in the Dashboard widget.

The secondary server joins perfectly without incident.  Please let us know if this helps anyone else with this issue.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Failure to join secondary zentyal domain controller

« on: October 07, 2013, 04:13:32 pm »

I have created a ticket here:
http://trac.zentyal.org/ticket/7428

One of my fellow linux pals suggested ramping up logging to try and track down the issue so I am going to attempt that this week and see if additional logs pertaining to this process will shed some light.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Failure to join secondary zentyal domain controller

« on: October 01, 2013, 06:31:59 pm »

I have never tried to provision the file sharing as a stand alone controller on my secondary server THEN attempted to connect it to the PDC.  I didn't read anywhere that needed to be done so I assumed the process for adding the secondary controller was:

-Query the PDC
-Login with Domain Admin credentials
-Create provision ticket from kerberos at PDC for Secondary DC
-Allow Secondary DC to access Samba LDAP configuration and users and permit sync
-Secondary DC brings over info from PDC and creates users, computers, shares, etc

These are just assumptions based on what I've seen in the log files, what I've read and what I've seen work and not work.  I can query both servers from one another using Network --> Tool --> Ping/Traceroute and both worked fine.

I'm going to try and analyze the script at: /usr/share/perl5/EBox/LDB.pm as it provides the error we are seeing in the log file at line 201.  If I can track down the variables and where they lead back to originating the login maybe I can see more into the error that might be causing the lack of success.

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Installation and Upgrades / [SOLVED] Failure to join secondary zentyal domain controller

« on: September 30, 2013, 10:08:20 pm »

I have the most up to date version of zentyal running on two servers.  The primary domain controller has been setup and configured and I have successfully joined all of the computers in my lan to that server.  I am quite excited with the quality of control there is with this system.  I originally had an issue joining my computers to the domain because of improper order of steps taken in the original provisioning of the samba kerberos system but I since resolved that.

The current issue I have is in trying to join a secondary domain controller to my system.  I don't find this particularly needed for my limited infrastructure but the learning experience will carry over to a site I am currently administering as they run a previous version of zentyal.

The error I receive when trying to join the secondary domain controller is:
"FATAL: Could not connect to samba LDAP server: connect: No such file or directory"

I have double and triple checked every setting I can think of that might be causing this including the firewall rules for internal networks to zentyal as I noticed the LDAP service was set to deny originally.  I didn't see that setting tweak in any of the documentation I read so I guess I assumed it would be set to allow requests.

I have followed the setup points thrice now to the letter from the following:
http://trac.zentyal.org/wiki/Documentation/Community/Document/MultipleZentyal

By thrice I mean, I tried three times, reinstalling zentyal completely to try each of the following two times.  Reason being, I learned the hard way that if the kerberos provisioning system is not implemented at the right time with all of the hostname and domain name configuration settings the right way and with naming conventions the way you want them, you will be a sad little man trying to figure out why your machines won't connect to the domain properly.

I haven't tried completely setting up all of the DNS records and everything for the secondary server, on the primary server BEFORE I enable the file sharing module for the first time on the PDC.  I can't believe that would be necessary as that seems like an awful lot of re-work just to add a secondary DC.

I have attached the log information from /var/log/zentyal.log if you would like to review the error in more detail.  The bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' seems relevant but I don't know how to track down the source of that issue.

Any help will be most appreciated.  Thank you for your consideration.