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Installation and Upgrades / Re: locked out of ebox

« on: August 26, 2010, 04:04:55 pm »

Hi,

Have you tried to access the eBox graphic console on the machine directly ? or even try to use one of the tty console ?
Also you can try to connect via ssh on the LAN side of eBox

Assuming that you are only trying to use the web-gui here is what to do to see if the eBox is active and responding:
if you don't know how to access the console press [CTRL] [ALT] [F1 - F6] for text console or [CTRL] [ALT] [F7] for graphic console on the ebox machine

I hope that you will not be offended if your skills are above this step but i'm assuming the minimum level



Best regards
Bogdan

Alas yeah, but we only installed ubuntu server so no graphical interface. If I could just get ebox to connect to the internet I could install ubuntu-desktop and fix it through that.

Of course now I can't access anything on the ebox machine, or get that to access the net. Driving me mad.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: locked out of ebox

« on: August 26, 2010, 10:54:57 am »

Bit previous maybe, but no-one can help?

I think I'm going to wipe and start afresh tonight.

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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 / Re: Is it always okay to "apt-get update"?

« on: February 01, 2010, 04:58:47 pm »

I'd say you don't ever really need to worry if you use the safe-upgrade command, apt-get upgrade is depreciated because it can harm live systems

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Is it always okay to "apt-get update"?

« on: January 28, 2010, 04:03:00 pm »

Some times apt-get upgrade can break things in ubuntu, personally I'd use aptitude:

Code: [Select]

sudo aptitude update

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sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
safe-upgrade (to my knowledge) upgrades files but tries not to break a system, and leaves upgradable files that might well alone.

I've never had problems with it

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Can't connect to ebox after power cut (but everything seems to be working still)

« on: January 28, 2010, 12:27:29 pm »

Absolute LEGEND.

Thank you Javier

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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 / Re: No Karmic Support?

« on: January 12, 2010, 12:03:25 pm »

Yep. Everything seems to work as normal, literally just ebox-egroupware that's not having it.

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

« on: January 06, 2010, 12:29:56 pm »

Brilliant thanks, think that should see me right.

http://forum.ebox-platform.com/index.php?topic=2354.0

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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 / Re: unmet dependencies in ebox

« on: January 05, 2010, 10:50:31 pm »

True enough.

For the sake of my sanity though..... maybe it's a sign egroupware isn't for us heh.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: unmet dependencies in ebox

« on: January 05, 2010, 09:24:55 pm »

Do you really need Ubuntu 9.10?

I guess not, not really. I only really went for 9.10 because 8.04 just wouldn't install due to some kind of bug in the install cd I had and I was stuck for time. 9.10 went in just fine and I've spent a sickening amount of time setting up a number of different things that all work brilliantly; it's only ebox-egroupware I have any problems with. I'd love to install it, but if the only option is a reformat and starting from scratch I'll have to just leave it

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: No Karmic Support?

« on: January 05, 2010, 09:16:07 pm »

I'm using Karmic, have ebox set up as dns/dhcp/samba/vpn/ldap/firewall

So far the only module I've had issues with so far is ebox-egroupware, which has me gutted because it could be so so useful to us.