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Installation and Upgrades / Zarfara Groupware
« on: September 01, 2010, 10:07:46 pm »
I see that the groupware switch has happened with Z 2.0.
Looking at the features of the substituted groupware package at
http://www.zarafa.com/content/editions
am I right that the calendar system is only available with their commercial version?
Looking at the features of the substituted groupware package at
http://www.zarafa.com/content/editions
am I right that the calendar system is only available with their commercial version?
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News and Announcements / Re: Planning to drop ebox-egroupware support, volunteers for maintaining it?
« on: August 16, 2010, 04:48:11 pm »
eGroupware being part of the ebox package was what drew me to ebox in the first place. I am presently in the process of setting up a new server using ebox, a process that is up in the air while the move to v2 is going on. If eGroupware is dropped, I will be attempting to include it as a separate unmanaged package on the same server but if that doesn't work I am sorry to say it will be ebox that will be dropped here rather than eGroupware.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Groupware server for eBox
« on: July 13, 2010, 06:32:07 am »
I have used egroupware for several years and it was the inclusion of this in ebox that brought me here. I chose it over ogo 3 or 4 years ago because it had more features and because I was able to get it to work. With ogo, that was not the case then. Concerns that it has more features than some need should be disregarded as those extra features can be ignored if not needed but are of use to some of us. Mark me down as supporting the continued inclusion of egroupware in ebox.
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: File server with WinXP Home clients
« on: July 12, 2010, 11:21:26 pm »
I had great success setting up ebox over the weekend. Terrific package! The file server came to life and the shares to WinXP home, Win7 home and Ubuntu clients all came to life. The router function of the server just worked when I ran the line direct from the cable modem to eth0 on the new server box. I was able to try this out separate from the existing server so it has only been live on the lan during my tests. Once I have everything the way I want, I can transfer the files from the old server and go live.
Two questions remain.
First, taking the linksys router I have been using out of the system and using ebox for this means I no longer have wireless. I don't really need wireless access to my lan or the file server, it is just for internet access for a laptop or a smart phone. Will it work to keep the wireless router between the new server and the cable modem?
The second is that up to this point I have had an old box in the office running egroupware. That box had a static ip number on the lan and the router rerouted incoming http requests to that box. It is used internally and from the outside using dnsexit.com to dnsexit.com to give my domain name an ip number. They are not one of the companies that ebox is set up to use. Do I need to change providers? So far in my setup of ebox I have not given it the domain name of my existing egroupware server. What do I need to do to make that change when I am ready to go live with this new server.
Two questions remain.
First, taking the linksys router I have been using out of the system and using ebox for this means I no longer have wireless. I don't really need wireless access to my lan or the file server, it is just for internet access for a laptop or a smart phone. Will it work to keep the wireless router between the new server and the cable modem?
The second is that up to this point I have had an old box in the office running egroupware. That box had a static ip number on the lan and the router rerouted incoming http requests to that box. It is used internally and from the outside using dnsexit.com to dnsexit.com to give my domain name an ip number. They are not one of the companies that ebox is set up to use. Do I need to change providers? So far in my setup of ebox I have not given it the domain name of my existing egroupware server. What do I need to do to make that change when I am ready to go live with this new server.
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Installation and Upgrades / File server with WinXP Home clients
« on: July 11, 2010, 06:31:21 pm »I am setting up a new ebox server that will be a file server for a half dozen clients. Some are xp home, some are win7 home and some are ubuntu. I have looked through this guide
http://www.howtoforge.com/using-ebox-as-windows-primary-domain-controller
and I gather that xp home clients are not able to access a pdc controlled file share. Could someone point me to something that helps me set up file shares for the xp home users on my lan?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Transition to Ebox - advice needed
« on: July 10, 2010, 04:00:19 am »
Well, I have never tried VMs and it happens that I am using all new hardware for the server anyway, so I can set it up, fiddle with it until I have it right and then switch over the data when I know have it working. So the question on my mind now is whether to do a ubuntu server install with thin client support and then add the ubox packages or to use the ubox cd. I am thinking the later is the way to go?
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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Transition to Ebox - advice needed
« on: July 09, 2010, 03:50:51 am »
Yes, good ideas. I will try it out on a separate machine altogether. I guess what I am really wondering is whether, upgrading to the new version when it comes out will be a challenge because if I set up a new server now, it will be on that same machine that I will want to use when the new version comes out.
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Installation and Upgrades / Transition to Ebox - advice needed
« on: July 08, 2010, 07:45:17 am »
I have just discovered ebox and it looks like exactly what I need.
I run an office with 8 workstations for 6 people. Our main use is word processing, email and web browsing. The workstations are WinXP. We presently have two servers running ubuntu. One of them is our egroupware server. It is an older version of ubuntu. The other is our file server. I think the ubuntu running on it is a year or so old. Although it is not really in use, we have LTSP on the file server. I want to expand the use of ltsp to support thin clients and change some of the workstations over to use it or local installs of ubuntu depending on the capabilities of the particular workstations. There will still be a couple of WinXP boxes for some things we need them for. I was about to replace the file server and update its OS and begin this transition when I came across ebox. It looks like the cat's pajamas, including everything we need, some security and other functions we ought to have plus it would incorporate our egroupware server and our file server into a single unit. That all sounds terrific.
I gather that the expected v2 is expected to include thin client support. I could set up a fresh file server in ubuntu that includes ltsp and then install ebox using the current version with the plan that I would update the install to v2 when it comes out. Or I could wait for v2 and do it all at once. After all, it is working as it is.
What pros and cons of either approach should be considered?
I run an office with 8 workstations for 6 people. Our main use is word processing, email and web browsing. The workstations are WinXP. We presently have two servers running ubuntu. One of them is our egroupware server. It is an older version of ubuntu. The other is our file server. I think the ubuntu running on it is a year or so old. Although it is not really in use, we have LTSP on the file server. I want to expand the use of ltsp to support thin clients and change some of the workstations over to use it or local installs of ubuntu depending on the capabilities of the particular workstations. There will still be a couple of WinXP boxes for some things we need them for. I was about to replace the file server and update its OS and begin this transition when I came across ebox. It looks like the cat's pajamas, including everything we need, some security and other functions we ought to have plus it would incorporate our egroupware server and our file server into a single unit. That all sounds terrific.
I gather that the expected v2 is expected to include thin client support. I could set up a fresh file server in ubuntu that includes ltsp and then install ebox using the current version with the plan that I would update the install to v2 when it comes out. Or I could wait for v2 and do it all at once. After all, it is working as it is.
What pros and cons of either approach should be considered?
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