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Installation and Upgrades / locked out of ebox

« on: August 25, 2010, 09:17:21 pm »

Hi all.

I've sucessfully (and happily) used ebox for a few months now, but occasionally I break something and run into problems.

Today is one such time.

Basically way back when, I followed this guide for setup: http://forum.ebox-platform.com/index.php?topic=896.0

All worked great, but last week we changed ISP and in updating the eth0 details today I've inadvertently set eth0 to the be same as eth1, somehow switched off DHCP, and appear to have lost all access to ebox.

Oddly (to me) CRM software on the ebox machine is still accessible using our external IP, but the ebox GUI is not.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

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Installation and Upgrades / Using two NIC's?

« on: July 15, 2010, 12:22:19 pm »

I've had a search around but not turned anything up so posting here

Just wondered if it's possible to configure ebox to use two NIC's / two incoming broadband connections?

My ideal would be.....

Our main line would be in use 99% of the time, but the second would still be connected and configured, and should the main line fail ebox would switch to the fall back.

Thanks

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Installation and Upgrades / Firewall: track websites / ban websites

« on: July 02, 2010, 04:24:44 pm »

I've been asked to ban a series of websites for staff in our office. Basically facebook, twitter etc.

I've suggested we try and track what sort of time is lost to particular sites rather than outright ban them, which I'm now looking at doing.

I wondered if this is possible via ebox, and that I could get some sort of log that would say facebook was viewed for 10 hours this week etc.

Beyond that, I'm assuming I just block IP's in the firewall to ban websites, but is there a ruleset I could apply that would allow use between 1-2pm each day?

Any help appreciated, thanks

PS: is ntop compatible with ebox? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ntop

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Installation and Upgrades / [sovled] Can't connect to ebox after power cut

« on: January 26, 2010, 03:49:42 pm »

Odd problem here, I use ebox as dhcp, internet gateway, firewall etc.

Everything works as expected, the office is well served for NAT, VPN is up etc etc, however I'm unable to access ebox control panel via a browser.

I've tried restarting via ubuntu's 'init.d ebox restart' command, I've also rebooted the server but each time the ebox network service shows as fail. I'm assuming it's something to do with that.

It started when we had a powercut, but as things have been ticking over ok I've not put too much time into fixing it for fear of breaking anything else.

Any ideas?

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Installation and Upgrades / Can't view shared folders over vpn

« on: January 05, 2010, 11:32:20 pm »

Followed the excellent VPN walkthrough on this forum, all seemed to work fine but I can't view any shared folders.

My home LAN ip is based on 192.168.1.xx
My ebox machine is 217.xx.xx.xx
My VPN ip is based on 192.168.0.xx

openVPN GUI opens and connect fine. If I type https:///192.168.0.1 into my browser (at home) then I get the ebox dashboard straight away. So as far as I can tell it works.

But.... If I type \\192.168.0.1\sharename into windows cannot access 192.168.0.1/ etc

I've got shares set up in ebox, filesharing enabled, samba running and, I *think* I everything right, any ideas?

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Installation and Upgrades / unmet dependencies in ebox

« on: January 04, 2010, 04:56:06 pm »

Now I've actually worked out how to setup/use it properly, I'm absolutely loving ebox. Really sorted out our office network.

I'm planning on adding vpn and egroupware, vpn I think I've got sorted (we'll see huh) but I'm getting errors installing ebox-egroupware.

apt-get install ebox-egroupware gives me this:

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Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  ebox-egroupware: Depends: ebox (< 1.2.10) but 1.3.5-0ubuntu2 is to be installed
                   Depends: ebox-mail (>= 0.12) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: ebox-webserver (>= 0.12) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
tristanw@ubuntu:~$
I use ubuntu 9.10, is that where the problems coming from? The rest of ebox installed perfectly with no problems. Is there anyway around the unmet dependencies as I'd really like to get the shared address book up and running.

Thanks for any help

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Installation and Upgrades / [SOLVED] Can't seem to regain access on port 80

« on: December 30, 2009, 03:24:13 pm »

So, I followed the how to on the forums, all running fine and dandy.

Now, I was running some crm software on port 80 (like salesforce.com) all was fine, worked great. Nat loopback and everything; then I needed to point port 80 at another machine temporarily.

Thought I could easily go back but it's gotten me beaten.

Original setup:

ebox accessible from net on port 80, html crm stuff is brought up.

temp setup:

machine on LAN accessible via port redirect from ebox.

I've readded a service to have port 80 open, and set it up on the firewall under 'external networks to ebox', all other port 80 redirect stuff removed.

Does anyone have any tips how I can fix it, or a link to a howto specifically on the firewall?

Thanks for any help

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Installation and Upgrades / SOLVED: network/interfaces problem

« on: December 21, 2009, 04:48:17 pm »

Ok, I realise this is pretty out there as a help request, but here goes.

I know this is down to networking/interfaces, I remember having this issue once before but I can't for the life of me remember what was wrong.

Basically an automatic upgrade of an ebox-network package has overwritten my network/interfaces file somehow, and now I can't get online or connect to the ebox from any other computer. Clever guy that I am I don't have a backup of the file.

Essentially...
eth0 is the external connection coming in.
eth1 is the internal LAN, which connects to the net via eth0 (that's all handled by ebox).

Can anyone see anything obviously wrong with the code below? I'm almost certain it's something missing but just can't remember.

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auto lo eth0 eth1
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet static
        address 217.113.173.74
        netmask 255.255.255.248
        broadcast 217.113.173.79
        gateway 217.113.173.73

iface eth1 inet static
        address 192.168.1.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.1
Thanks for any help.

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Installation and Upgrades / Downgrading ebox?

« on: September 28, 2009, 12:19:29 pm »

I'm not sure why/how, but it turns out I've managed to install ebox 1.3 - which I'm told isn't all that stable and might not be supported longterm or upgradable to v 1.4 when that comes out.

I don't suppose there's a way to downgrade to ebox 1.2 but retain my settings?

I'm using ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty, typical LAMP setup

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Installation and Upgrades / Help for an idiot

« on: September 18, 2009, 05:34:20 pm »

Not sure how, but I've managed to break access to apache from outside of our LAN.

It was working fine yesterday, and parts of it work ok now, but not all.

>> ebox is setup at 192.168.1.1 on the LAN.
>> server at 192.168.1.14 is fully accessible (two port redirects do that perfectly).

However, there's a website set up on the ebox machine that I need access to (things like phpmyadmin and webmin).

I'm not sure what I've done, setting it up was easy enough but clearly I've broken something in the firewall. Any help would be amazing, thanks.

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Installation and Upgrades / "A really nasty bug has occurred" - "allIfaces" HELP!

« on: September 17, 2009, 07:44:23 pm »

allIfaces

I couldn't update some ebox files, they were marked as held back. So I tried apt-get installing them one at a time, started with sudo apt-get install ebox-openvpn.

Now I have this when I visit my ebox URi

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A really nasty bug has occurred
Exception
Can't call method "allIfaces" on an undefined value
Trace
Can't call method "allIfaces" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/EBox/DHCP.pm line 181.
Help

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Installation and Upgrades / sudo apt-get update, files held back

« on: September 17, 2009, 07:38:51 pm »

Hi all, I've added these deb packages to /etc/apt/sources.list

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deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.3/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ebox/1.3/ubuntu jaunty main
But when I sudo apt-get update I get

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W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 100A7490070626B9
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net jaunty Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 5F99A088342D17AC
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
and sudo apt-get upgrade gives

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The following packages have been kept back:
  ebox ebox-ca ebox-dhcp ebox-dns ebox-firewall ebox-network ebox-ntp
  ebox-objects ebox-openvpn ebox-printers ebox-samba ebox-services ebox-squid
  ebox-usersandgroups libebox
Any ideas?

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Installation and Upgrades / VPN problem, can't see share, can't copy files

« on: September 17, 2009, 06:47:58 pm »

Hi all, first off - thanks for an amazing piece of software, ebox is amazing. It's already revolutionised our office. So cheers for that.

Second, I'm having a bit of trouble getting openVPN working. I've got it up and running on the ebox server, and I've managed to connect to it from Vista, but I'm unable to see shares or to copy files to the VPN.

My setup

the ebox machine is the a gateway, I'm doing this internally (Is this my problem?)

>> Ebox IP is 192.168.1.1
>> Ebox DHCP gives out IP's from 192.168.1.50 to 192.168.1.150
>> Ebox has windows share set up, with a NAS drive mounted at /mount/edge
>> openVPN gui in windows connects to openVPN fine, and reports it's IP as 192.168.1.2
>> \\192.168.1.1\edge works to access the NAS drive
>> \\192.168.1.2\edge does not work to access the NAS drive

If I put \\192.168.1.2\ into run, then it does open the usual windows explorer box, but with a 'printers' icon only - no sign of the shared folder, and if I try to copy a file from my machine to 192.168.1.2 I get an error (I'm assuming this is because there isn't a shared folder visible?)

Does anyone have any ideas what's wrong?