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Installation and Upgrades / How I "fixed" PXE support on my Zentyal 2.0 server

« on: September 08, 2010, 08:11:59 am »

After trying the beta, I downloaded Zentyal 2.0, did a clean install with all the latest updates, and reconfigured my server from scratch.  I tried configuring PXE as I had with the beta, but to no avail.

I discovered two problems.  First DHCP insisted on pointing to a file in /var/lib/tftp/ even though the TFTP server is configured to serve from /var/lib/tftpboot/.  The only way I was able to argument was to manually edit /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf and change both "filename" entries to point to the correct path.  In my case, both entries read as follows:

filename "/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";

Next, TFTP had a problem that was preventing clients from downloading files.  I commented out the following line to get it working:

TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure"

Now, I'm happily booting from my Zentyal server without any trouble at all.  If anyone would like more details on how to configure PXE and PXELinux, I would be happy to go into more detail.

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Installation and Upgrades / intermittent file permission error

« on: May 16, 2010, 06:28:40 pm »

Three times in the last week I've encountered a problem where users can create new files but cannot open their existing documents because they don't have the necessary permissions.  When this happens, it affects all accounts.  Power cycling the server usually solves the problem.  The server is running a fully patched version of eBox 1.4 as a PDC, but I'm only storing My Documents on the server and not the entire user profile.