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Contributions / Tips&Tricks / Features Requests / VSS
« on: March 09, 2018, 02:45:06 am »
A feature I would like added would be a tick box when creating shared folders to enable Samba's VSS feature.

In the meantime anyone know how I can add this feature manually either has a hook or stub?

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Other modules / Proxy issues
« on: February 08, 2018, 11:14:42 am »
I think this has been discussed before but I will bring it up again. The proxy rules doesn't permit blocking of sites connecting through HTTPS. This is disappointing because a business needs to block employees from accessing certain sites. I don't know why the developers have gone this route but this is not what businesses want.

The other issue with the proxy module is not recognizing FQDNs. So for example I cannot input .ABC.COM so that WWW.FABC.COM is not flagged as a false positive.

Basically the rewrite of the Squid rules is poorly implemented in Zentyal.

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From my test bench yes is the simple answer. I am a Windows network admin and from that point of view Zentyal is the easiest to get familiarized on for a new-to-linux person. The nomenclature used for the menu options and settings are immediately familiar to a Windows server admin. I have tested Nethserver and Univention. Univention interface was too dissimilar for an easy switchover while Nethserver the nomenclature is very Linux like and requires a bit more getting used to but othewise I was able to also build an AD/DC with Nethserver quite easily. However Zentyal has better AD functionality because you can create AD objects in the Zentyal web interface while I cannot see this function in Nethserver. You might think this is not important but actually it is because RSAT is only installable on Widows PRO clients. If you are not using a PRO client then you have no access to RSAT and therefore not able to create AD objects in Nethserver.

From scratch to setting up the domain in Zentyal with a few users and some shared folders took me less than a day. I was able to join Windows 10 clients and Windows Vista clients into the domain and checked that all the ACLs to the shared folders worked. I was also able to connect to the domain using RSAT tool to create AD objects. Then I used the GPM control from my window client to connect to Zentyal and create GPOs on each container.

I also deliberately turned the Zentyal server on and off while in the middle of processing to see if it corrupted the AD database. Zentyal passed all the tests so far.

My next plan is to test the backup/restore strategy. If I am able to rebuild a baremetal server and recover the AD in less than 2 hours I will put Zentyal into production. The production will be a scratch Zentyal with a manual rebuild of the AD structure (i.e. manually create all the user accounts and rejoin all the Widows clients into the domain) then retire the Windows SBS 2003. Our office has about 40 users so I factor about a days work to manually rebuild the AD.

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Directory and Authentication / Zentyal jigsaw piece missing
« on: February 02, 2018, 05:13:57 am »
I am a Windows admin and looking at alternatives to always having to upgrade Windows versions. This was spurred on by the need to upgrade to PHP6 but find it is no longer compatible with Windows 2003 or XP based computers. Instead of forking out more license fees to upgrade Windows I am now considering migrating over to a Linux based AD/DC. I have been running Zentyal for a couple weeks and running tests on it and it has been stable and troublefree. For all intents and purposes I believe it can replace my Windows SBS 2003 server.  I don't want to get bogged down in system configurations and I like Z5's simple setup and maintenance. My next test will be backup and restore strategies and if that proves successful I will commit to the migration.

One last piece of the jigsaw however: I run an internal website on my Windows box but I am confused how to do this with Zentyal 5. I understand Z5 has moved over to Nginx from Apache. I also understand that Zentyal uses stubs and master templates as global policies for their services and therefore one should not simply edit the CONF files. In the simplest way and method could someone instruct me as to how to create a HTDOCS directory for my website and include this in the Nginx master template so that my internal users can call the webpages. I also assume installing PHP and MySQL will be as simple as issuing an apt-get command over the internet.


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