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Installation and Upgrades / Re: A simple logon script for Windows clients logging into an eBox PDC

« on: March 24, 2011, 04:59:51 pm »

This seems to not be working with latest zentyal, due to the addition of zentyal-logon.bat in the netlogon share, something for Windows 7.

I ran into issues with this as well since the addition of the zentyal-logon.bat and figured out a work around for myself, maybe it can help others too.

My issue was that I had it mapping drives twice based on different groups.

e.g. if a user was in group HR it would get the R: drive mapped, if they user was in the Admin group they would also get the R: drive mapped.

For me this was the issue, and I simply commented out the admin mappings. In my environment this wasn't a big deal as I just ensured that people in the Admin group were in each of the other groups.

Note that this was working fine before the update, so it seems like it is a change in the software someplace.

I used the troubleshooting steps posted earlier in this thread to help me solve this. Mainly copy the contents of \\server\netlogon to my desktop and tested that locally. I also created a file to unmap each of the drives that I mapped to "reset" my computer. I ran the .bat files from a command line to watch the output and put in lines to help with debugging to make things easier.

Anyway, just wanted to say Thank You to the original poster for sharing their knowledge.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Virtual Machine Manager

« on: February 25, 2011, 08:31:56 pm »

off topic
half_life:

I'd like to chat with you more about your transit setup, as I currently work for a largish trasit agency and we have experienced some pains implementing some of the features you mentioned. if you are up for sharing your knwledge/experience could you contact me? larry at schwerzler dot com

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Quick few questions re Zentyal...Sluggish? and Free?

« on: February 25, 2011, 07:06:08 pm »

I'd really like to see some improvements in the responsiveness of the GUI. I don't think starved hardware is my issue.
16GB of ram (roughly 14GB is available the other 2GB is given to a VM)

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free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:      16465480   16311968     153512          0     205656   13516160
-/+ buffers/cache:    2590152   13875328
Swap:     19787768        212   19787556
8 processor cores

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grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo
8
which equates to two dual core (with hyperthreading) xeon 3Ghz processors

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head -n 26 /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 6
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 2000.000
cache size : 2048 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 4
core id : 0
cpu cores : 2
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 6
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx lm constant_tsc pebs bts pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est cid cx16 xtpr pdcm lahf_lm tpr_shadow
bogomips : 5985.24
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 128
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:

processor : 1
With the following zentyal modules installed

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dpkg -l | grep "ebox-"
ii  ebox-antivirus                   2.0.5                                           Zentyal - Antivirus
ii  ebox-ca                          2.0.3                                           Zentyal - Certification Authority
ii  ebox-dhcp                        2.0.2                                           Zentyal - DHCP Service
ii  ebox-dns                         2.0.1                                           Zentyal - DNS Service
ii  ebox-ebackup                     2.0.10                                          Zentyal - Backup
ii  ebox-firewall                    2.0.1                                           Zentyal - Firewall
ii  ebox-ftp                         2.0.1                                           Zentyal - FTP
ii  ebox-gateway                     2.0                                             Zentyal - Gateway Suite
ii  ebox-ids                         2.0.1                                           Zentyal - Intrusion Detection System
ii  ebox-infrastructure              2.0                                             Zentyal - Network Infrastructure Suite
ii  ebox-l7-protocols                2.0                                             Zentyal - Layer-7 Filter
ii  ebox-mail                        2.0.3                                           Zentyal - Mail Service
ii  ebox-mailfilter                  2.0.2                                           Zentyal - Mail Filter
ii  ebox-monitor                     2.0                                             Zentyal - Monitor
ii  ebox-network                     2.0.8                                           Zentyal - Network Configuration
ii  ebox-ntp                         2.0.1                                           Zentyal - NTP Service
ii  ebox-objects                     2.0                                             Zentyal - Network Objects
ii  ebox-office                      2.0                                             Zentyal - Office Suite
ii  ebox-openvpn                     2.0.7                                           Zentyal - VPN Service
ii  ebox-printers                    2.0.2-1                                         Zentyal - Printer Sharing
ii  ebox-radius                      2.0                                             Zentyal - RADIUS
ii  ebox-remoteservices              2.0.8                                           Zentyal - Zentyal Cloud Client
ii  ebox-samba                       2.0.7                                           Zentyal - File Sharing
ii  ebox-security                    2.0                                             Zentyal - UTM Suite
ii  ebox-services                    2.0                                             Zentyal - Network Services
ii  ebox-software                    2.0.10                                          Zentyal - Software Management
ii  ebox-squid                       2.0.3                                           Zentyal - HTTP Proxy (Cache and Content Filt
ii  ebox-trafficshaping              2.0.3                                           Zentyal - Traffic Shaping
ii  ebox-usersandgroups              2.0.10                                          Zentyal - Users and Groups
ii  ebox-webserver                   2.0.3                                           Zentyal - Web Server
Which is a lot, but not too many for my hardware I would expect.

No significant server load

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uptime
 10:03:35 up 6 days, 12:02,  1 user,  load average: 0.27, 0.36, 0.37

All this and my interface is quite sluggish. All of the same symptoms previously explained in this thread.

Saving takes a very long time, logging in takes 10-20 seconds, navigating the interface can take 10+ seconds to bring up the proper page.

I mean eventually it works, but using the zentyal web interface is an exercise in patients. So it is good to hear that improvements are in the pipe.

I have to say that even-though the web interface is sluggish, I haven't noticed any issues with sluggishness for the services that zentyal provides. So while it is annoying for the admin, users do not seem to be impacted.

I'm glad to provide more info to help narrow down where the issue lies.

Thanks

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: PDC - howto give Admin Rights to a PC from Zentyal

« on: February 25, 2011, 06:26:21 pm »

I've wondered this as well.

My question at least is how to add a user to the local admin account on a PC, not the domain admin group.

I'd like my users to be able to install software etc on their own machine, but not necessarily have full control over the domain, which is the permission level you get with the admin group if I understand correctly.

I haven't tried but I assume this can be done by logging into each machine as the domain admin and adding the user the the local admin group, but I was hoping to do something via zentyal

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: [SOLVED] Zentyal ebackup runs multiple times

« on: February 01, 2011, 06:41:30 pm »

I experienced this same issue.

I had my backups set to start at 9pm, then switched them to 6pm. I noticed that they would run twice, (once at 6pm, and once at 9pm).

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me@server1:~$ sudo crontab -u ebox -l
0 21 * * 6 /usr/share/ebox-ebackup/ebox-remote-ebackup --full
0 21 * * 0,1,2,3,4,5 /usr/share/ebox-ebackup/ebox-remote-ebackup --incremental
me@server1:~$ sudo crontab -u ebox -r
me@server1:~$ sudo crontab -u ebox -l
no crontab for ebox

I am very sure this will remove the 9pm backup process, but I'll be sure to report back if it doesn't.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Integration with Google Apps?

« on: December 15, 2010, 01:48:02 am »

My main concern with installing the mail module just to use sendmail is it seemed like overkill. I wanted to avoid running extra services that I didn't need just to let my box email me.

I've had the mail module up and running for a few days now and am getting emails without problems and have some of the mail delivery options turned off to conserve resources.

Just for others who may have the same questions I did. I didn't have to configure anything for my box to start sending me email, though the address it comes from is not my Google Apps domain, it is ebox-noreply@server

Thanks for the help/advise.

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Installation and Upgrades / [SOLVED] Integration with Google Apps?

« on: December 08, 2010, 10:03:09 pm »

We have been using Google Apps for quite some time mostly for GMail. Our users really like it and we plan to stick with it.

We really don't have a need for a full email setup in our Zentyal server, however it would be nice for the server to send out alerts to us via email.

Is there a good way to integrate Google Apps so Zentyal can send emails out to our email address?

Anyone else doing something similar?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Backup taking days to complete.

« on: December 03, 2010, 01:02:11 am »

It looks like the update to duplicity 0.6.10 has done the trick for me.

Full backup completed in 2.5 hours roughly, which seems much more reasonable to me

Thanks for the response.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Backup taking days to complete.

« on: December 02, 2010, 09:19:45 pm »

Thanks for the info about the bug and whatnot.

I've got the new version installed and set to kick off at the start of the next hour, so I'll let you know how things go.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Backup taking days to complete.

« on: December 02, 2010, 02:10:48 am »

More info: here is the result from the most recent backup (Monday at 10pm) for cat /var/log/ebox/ebox.log |grep backup

http://pastebin.com/DVrQqhrR

Advise?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Backup taking days to complete.

« on: December 02, 2010, 02:02:39 am »

Additional information:

I had to reboot the server late Sunday evening even though the backup wasn't done running. When I rebooted I setup the full backup to run Monday night at 10PM as of 5PM Wednesday (43 hours) it is still running.

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Installation and Upgrades / [SOLVED] Backup taking days to complete.

« on: December 02, 2010, 02:00:56 am »

I have a problem where my backup process is running for days when backing up to a local disk.

I had my backup process set to do full backups starting Sunday at 1AM with incremental backups daily after that.  I couldn't get screenshots to attach to the post but here are some shots of my config: http://www.flickr.com/photos/plecebo/sets/72157625385035525/

Here is some information:

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ls -l /home | grep backup
drwxrwxrwx 2 root    root      32768 2010-11-29 22:00 backup
An ls -l of /home/backup showing all the files, thier sizes, and timestamps. http://pastebin.com/xQNAguCL

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df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ASHost-root
                     460943408   6805688 430723144   2% /
none                   8227784       228   8227556   1% /dev
none                   8232744         0   8232744   0% /dev/shm
none                   8232744      2136   8230608   1% /var/run
none                   8232744         0   8232744   0% /var/lock
none                   8232744         0   8232744   0% /lib/init/rw
none                 460943408   6805688 430723144   2% /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs
/dev/sda1               233191     52441    168309  24% /boot
/dev/mapper/raid_bucket-home
                     516061624 184128064 326690680  37% /home


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cat /home/backup/ebox-backup.log
No increments older than Wed Dec 31 16:01:30 1969 found, exiting.
The full backup runs for days and prevents the incremental backups from firing off.

A full backup of this amount of data (100GB max) to a local drive should not take that long.
I have the latest zentyal installed with backup version 2.0.5

I need to be able to backup this server, at this point the only backups I feel I can rely on is my RDIFF Backups, id rather backup locally then rsync the backup files to my backup server for double protection.

If you need more information let me know. The backup sittuation (or lack thereof) is really frustrating.

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Installation and Upgrades / Firewall dropping LDAP packets.

« on: October 13, 2010, 10:52:33 pm »

I have my Zentyal server setup with eth0 as the internal interface and my DHCP range from 192.168.1.100-200. eth2 is my external network.

I'm seeing a lot of packets (20-30 a minute) dropped on my internal eth0 interface from my Windows 7 machines back to zentyal (192.168.1.1).

I'm just wondering if this is normal, or if I should look into opening the ports for internal network -> zentyal traffic?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Trouble resolving internal hostnames

« on: October 07, 2010, 06:16:18 am »

Thanks for the reply sixstone, I got the DNS issues resolved on my local network. Two questions remain.

• When I went to the DHCP settings to put in a search domain It wouldn't let me chose zentyal domain, I had to put in a custom domain. Why is that, is my zentyal server mis-configured?
• When I am using VPN to access my local network from remote locations I cannot resolve resource names on my lan from my remote computer. I've tried restarting the vpn service, but no luck. Is this expected? I can however ping the machine IP and connect to machine resources via IP address.

Thanks so much for your help

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Installation and Upgrades / Trouble resolving internal hostnames

« on: October 06, 2010, 11:46:07 pm »

I have a Zentyal install working as a PDC with a few window boxes and a few Linux servers living behind it on the internal network.

I think I've set things up pretty well, but am running into trouble resolving host names on my internal network. Zentyal is acting as a DNS cache and functions well in that respect to external names.

Example, on my zentyal server I try to resolve another machine name on my network "zeus":

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dig zeus

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> zeus
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 16993
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;zeus. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 137 IN SOA a.root-servers.net. nstld.verisign-grs.com. 2010100601 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 47 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Oct  6 14:43:28 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 97

I can ping/connect to items via IP address just not hostname.

This may be more an OS problem (Ubuntu 10.04 64bit Server) but I have not been able to find any information regarding what is misconfigured.

Thanks for any help you can provide.