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Installation and Upgrades / Re: LDAP export and import -the easy way
« on: March 04, 2011, 08:17:15 am »
Agreed, but that assumes you have a php/mysql server handy.
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Installation and Upgrades / LDAP export and import -the easy way
« on: March 02, 2011, 12:02:35 pm »
I've see so many posts regarding importing LDAP records from previous servers, and there's even a tutorial in the How-tos relating to it. But, why do things the hard way when you can do the easy way?
For those of you who don't know there is a great piece of Open Source software called Apache Directory Studio. Its available for Win, Mac, Linux. With the software you can connect to your existing LDAP database, export to LDIF, then connect to the new LDAP on your new Zentyal box, and import the LDIF file. The only thing you will need to do before import is use a text editor (I suggest Notepad++) to rename the DN info in the LDIF file, which typically is repeated for each user, group, computer etc.
Anyway I managed to import all users groups and computers from my old ebox 1.4 server (Ubuntu 8.04), into a new zentyal 2 server (Ubuntu 10.04).
All domain logons are working perfectly on the new server just as they used to. The only additional thing I needed to do for that was to edit the Samba SID using Apache Directory Studio to match the Samba SID on the old server.
All in all Apache Directory Studio is a very powerful and easy to use tool, offering you full editing of your entire LDAP directory if you need.
Hope this is useful info for someone.
For those of you who don't know there is a great piece of Open Source software called Apache Directory Studio. Its available for Win, Mac, Linux. With the software you can connect to your existing LDAP database, export to LDIF, then connect to the new LDAP on your new Zentyal box, and import the LDIF file. The only thing you will need to do before import is use a text editor (I suggest Notepad++) to rename the DN info in the LDIF file, which typically is repeated for each user, group, computer etc.
Anyway I managed to import all users groups and computers from my old ebox 1.4 server (Ubuntu 8.04), into a new zentyal 2 server (Ubuntu 10.04).
All domain logons are working perfectly on the new server just as they used to. The only additional thing I needed to do for that was to edit the Samba SID using Apache Directory Studio to match the Samba SID on the old server.
All in all Apache Directory Studio is a very powerful and easy to use tool, offering you full editing of your entire LDAP directory if you need.
Hope this is useful info for someone.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Problem adding samba/ldap user
« on: February 18, 2011, 11:36:57 am »
I have a similar problem.
Currently using Ebox 1.4, and wanted to upgrade to Zentyal 2.0-3.
As there is no upgrade path, I installed zentyal on a new server hoping to import the old config once all the relavant software modules are added.
However when I try to import the config I get this error:
Why is zentyal even trying to import the root user? Root user cannot be renamed, so therefore its impossible to import the config.
Currently using Ebox 1.4, and wanted to upgrade to Zentyal 2.0-3.
As there is no upgrade path, I installed zentyal on a new server hoping to import the old config once all the relavant software modules are added.
However when I try to import the config I get this error:
Code: [Select]
Some error has happened in Zentyal:
Cannot restore because user root already exists as system user. Delete or rename this user and try againWhy is zentyal even trying to import the root user? Root user cannot be renamed, so therefore its impossible to import the config.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Use External OpenLDAP
« on: February 10, 2011, 10:39:41 am »
yes please - i need this too!
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Using Zentyal / eBox as an LDAP Client
« on: February 09, 2011, 11:52:28 am »
Yes I need this too.
We currently have E-box 1.4 providing LDAP, but so many other systems are either difficult or impossible to get to talk with E-box's slightly non-standard LDAP implementation.
I also don't like the idea of having all eggs in one basket. e.g. LDAP server is also file server.
I know that Zentyal's master/slave model is supposed to address this, but so far in testing its been very troublesome, and in my opinion isn't ready for production environment.
I also would like to be able to use a lot of the standard LDAP directory user fields as a basis for staff address book, but Ebox/Zentyal just doesn't have those fields.
Tutorial anyone?
We currently have E-box 1.4 providing LDAP, but so many other systems are either difficult or impossible to get to talk with E-box's slightly non-standard LDAP implementation.
I also don't like the idea of having all eggs in one basket. e.g. LDAP server is also file server.
I know that Zentyal's master/slave model is supposed to address this, but so far in testing its been very troublesome, and in my opinion isn't ready for production environment.
I also would like to be able to use a lot of the standard LDAP directory user fields as a basis for staff address book, but Ebox/Zentyal just doesn't have those fields.
Tutorial anyone?
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Installation and Upgrades / Cannot restore file if special characters exist
« on: January 31, 2011, 09:00:02 am »
Just a heads-up in case anyone else hits the same issue.
I needed to restore a file from backup, the filename had a space in it, and the file was in a folder which had ben named using some foreign characters e.g. üõöä
The restore failed with a "file not found" type error. After the first failure, i switched to cli to do a manual restore, and that failed too.
In the end, I restored the entire parent directory to a temp folder, in the hope that the foreign characters would be avoided, and as suspected, it worked!
In the process I did a lot of googling, to try to find some answers to my questions, and still came up with nothing. If anyone has any answers to these it would be great:
This is using Ebox 1.4.4
I needed to restore a file from backup, the filename had a space in it, and the file was in a folder which had ben named using some foreign characters e.g. üõöä
The restore failed with a "file not found" type error. After the first failure, i switched to cli to do a manual restore, and that failed too.
In the end, I restored the entire parent directory to a temp folder, in the hope that the foreign characters would be avoided, and as suspected, it worked!
In the process I did a lot of googling, to try to find some answers to my questions, and still came up with nothing. If anyone has any answers to these it would be great:
- How can i do a manual restore from cli of a filename containing spaces? Is there a way of quoting the string?
- How can I get duplicity to understand foreign characters in a file path?
This is using Ebox 1.4.4
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Installation and Upgrades / Home folder Recycle Bin
« on: January 28, 2011, 05:07:57 pm »
Core version: Ebox 1.4.4
Users and Groups version: 1.4.4
I'm experiencing some inconsistencies with the $RECYCLE.BIN folder in the users home folder.
Some users have it, and some don't. Yet I'm suspecting that in the beginning the folder was created, but that the user is able to delete it. This is obviously not desirable.
so two questions arise:
1. how can I restore the folder?
2. how can I stop users from deleting it?
I'm planning an upgrade to current zentyal version, but I'd need to Upgrade my server Ubuntu version too, which is obviously major, and this is a production environment. So I'm taking it slow and careful.
Users and Groups version: 1.4.4
I'm experiencing some inconsistencies with the $RECYCLE.BIN folder in the users home folder.
Some users have it, and some don't. Yet I'm suspecting that in the beginning the folder was created, but that the user is able to delete it. This is obviously not desirable.
so two questions arise:
1. how can I restore the folder?
2. how can I stop users from deleting it?
I'm planning an upgrade to current zentyal version, but I'd need to Upgrade my server Ubuntu version too, which is obviously major, and this is a production environment. So I'm taking it slow and careful.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: restore pdc
« on: January 28, 2011, 11:33:30 am »
a configuration backup doesn't include, home directories, shares etc
a configuration backup doesn't (when i last tried) include printer shares and permissions.
my opinion.
don't do only a configuration backup.
a configuration backup doesn't (when i last tried) include printer shares and permissions.
my opinion.
don't do only a configuration backup.
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Installation and Upgrades / samba credentials bug
« on: December 29, 2010, 12:28:43 am »
I'm running e-box 1.4 and I think my ubuntu version 8.04 prevents me installing Zentyal 2.x
The samba version in 1.4 contains a rare, yet documented bug which seems to somehow screw up cached credentials on our windows PCs. Domain admin permissions are lost on the local machine, and I can only login to PCs using accounts that have been previously logged in. Some software such as IE doesn't work correctly, and I can't do run-as domain admin. Everything was fine for months, then suddenly we're cursed, each PC in turn is hit by the bug.
The only fix I have so far found for this is to remove the PC from the domain then rejoin it. Not fun for 80 or so PCs.
Is it possible to upgrade to 2.x without upgrading Ubuntu ?
The samba version in 1.4 contains a rare, yet documented bug which seems to somehow screw up cached credentials on our windows PCs. Domain admin permissions are lost on the local machine, and I can only login to PCs using accounts that have been previously logged in. Some software such as IE doesn't work correctly, and I can't do run-as domain admin. Everything was fine for months, then suddenly we're cursed, each PC in turn is hit by the bug.
The only fix I have so far found for this is to remove the PC from the domain then rejoin it. Not fun for 80 or so PCs.
Is it possible to upgrade to 2.x without upgrading Ubuntu ?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: A simple logon script for Windows clients logging into an eBox PDC
« on: December 29, 2010, 12:17:58 am »
didn't do anything
a restart of samba seems to have fixed it though.
a restart of samba seems to have fixed it though.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: A simple logon script for Windows clients logging into an eBox PDC
« on: December 03, 2010, 12:07:11 pm »
I have been using this script without any problems now for 7 months in a domain with 60+ users
Suddenly yesterday the group mappings stopped working, and I'm trying to fix it.
The user's home drive and public drive map perfectly, but none of the group mappings work.
Nothing has changed on the server, and all the share permissions are still correct in that the user can access the shares from \\server\sharename
Does anyone have any ideas ?
Suddenly yesterday the group mappings stopped working, and I'm trying to fix it.
The user's home drive and public drive map perfectly, but none of the group mappings work.
Nothing has changed on the server, and all the share permissions are still correct in that the user can access the shares from \\server\sharename
Does anyone have any ideas ?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Can't see old backups
« on: November 24, 2010, 09:31:37 am »
I ran a full backup manually, but it still didn't show anything after.
So, I moved all the old files from the backup location.
Since then backups have been running fine.
C'mon this is a serious issue. If something as basic as temporarily lost connectivity can make your entire backup useless, thats really VERY bad. Backup needs to be trustworthy.
There must be a solution?
Someone?
Anyone?
So, I moved all the old files from the backup location.
Since then backups have been running fine.
C'mon this is a serious issue. If something as basic as temporarily lost connectivity can make your entire backup useless, thats really VERY bad. Backup needs to be trustworthy.
There must be a solution?
Someone?
Anyone?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Manual backup
« on: November 12, 2010, 05:27:21 pm »
in 1.4 the correct command is
/usr/share/ebox/ebox-remote-ebackup --full
no need to write 'perl' at front, and the path is different.
/usr/share/ebox/ebox-remote-ebackup --full
no need to write 'perl' at front, and the path is different.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Can't see old backups
« on: November 09, 2010, 04:23:45 pm »
will it help to run a full backup manually? or will that just screw up any existing backups?