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We are using Zentyal v4.1.  Last week when we did an system update, the linux uid for several users were changed.  This broke logins and file access. After much internal debate about how best to deal with the problem.  I fixed the file access issue with "find . -uid oldXXX -exec chown -u newXXX {} /".  After this the users were now able to login but lost their connection to the /home/$USER directory.  Yes, the home directory now has the updated owner uid and permissions.  Also, some users had their directories duplicate but with the username capitalized, e.g. /home/mark became /home/Mark.  They can login but just get the generic $ prompt and no bash or profile settings.

What's weird is that this didn't happen to all of the users who have both types of logins.

How do I restore the pointers to the home directories?

Thank you,
Mark

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All in all, I do not think Zentyal makes much sense now. Rolling your own solution based on vanilla Ubuntu 16.04 is almost trivial, especially with some help from Zentyal configuration files. I've done that and I'm quite satisfied. And I also installed OpenChange from the SOGo repositories, although I've then disabled it because of some glitches (but they were there in Zentyal 4 too...).
Using Outlook via SMTP and IMAP, the open source Outlook CalDav Synchronizer plugin is good enough to fill the hole for contacts and calendars (shameless plug: I'm the author of the backport to .net 4 for Windows XP compatibility).

I'm think of doing something similar.  What does Zentyal do that SOGo does not?  Is it just the network/firewall configuration now?  Zentyal does a pretty good GUI.  Are there GUI administrations for Samba AD?

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Zentyal uses Samba4 as the AD DC.  There are several noted problems with Windows 8.1 and Samba4 on Samba's forums and other places. 

Good News/Bad News;
Samba 4.2.2 is out but I don't know how long it takes Zentyal to incorporate the new releases into their "distro".

Mark

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Importing Existing Configs
« on: May 28, 2015, 05:56:36 am »
I use etckeeper to backup and provide version control of all of my configs.  Give it a try.

Mark

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I too have been having a lot of problems with the zentyal-desktop package (basically the gui interface) on an existing Ubuntu 14.04.02 server.  I gave up on the gui and ssh'd and used the web interface.  Previously, I loaded the Zentyal ISO into a virtual machine just to let me check it out before installation.  Went back to that to see what I was missing.  Didn't find much, if anything.  Basically, it's a lightweight desktop with shell terminals and firefox with a preset link to the web interface.  So, I've given up on the gui because it doesn't appear to do anything I am not already doing and the server with return to being headless (except for emergencies).


My server doesn't serve webpages, so I can't help you with that.  I did notice that webmin works on its standard port 10000.

Since you need the server to do double duty, may I suggest running Zentyal in a virtual machine?  And/or running the media server in a virtual machine or Docker container?  Both of those solutions would allow differentiation of the service via multiple ip addresses.

Mark


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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Samba4 LDAP command line tools
« on: May 28, 2015, 05:38:24 am »
They are the ldb* series of tools, installed with the samba4 package.  Also, there is samba-tools.

Anticipating much reading ahead,
Mark

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Background:  I have installed Zentyal 4.1 on an existing server running Ubuntu 14.04.02.

Question:
What are the command line tools to use to manage LDAP?  I installed ldap-tools but they didn't work.

Thanks in Advance,
Mark

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Background: Installed Zentyal 4.1 via the repositories onto an existing server running Ubuntu 14.04.02 LTS.  This server was a samba file server before installing Zentyal.

Query:  As this was the file server before Zentyal, there are a bunch of existing directories owned by the existing local users and assigned to the existing local groups.  The existing local users need access to any new files created by the LDAP users and the LDAP users need access to the existing files.

q1) How do I let the existing local users have access to the directories with LDAP user owner/groups?

q2) Should I move the existing files over to directories with LDAP user owner/groups?  I'm inclined to think this way to give all future users access that is inherently controlled by LDAP.  To this end, I have shared both the old directories and the base new directory through Samba.  Alas, neither "side" can see the other.

Thoughts?  Solutions?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

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