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Directory and Authentication / up-to-date Samba on Zentyal?

« on: December 03, 2020, 02:15:54 pm »

Is there a reasonable way to run more up-to-date Samba on Zentyal? the LTS version is very old..

It would probably mean importing some custom repository and web admin might not work at all..

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Installation and Upgrades / New systemd update conflicts with upstart

« on: October 20, 2019, 04:18:13 pm »

On my Ubuntu Server 18.04 (originally installed as 14.04 and upgraded to 18.04 few months ago), systemd update has now been "kept back".

I looked at it in aptitude and it says that dependencies are not satisfied:

• systemd(upgrade, 237-3ubuntu10.29 -> 237-3ubuntu10.31) conflicts with upstart

I know Ubuntu used to use upstart but have no idea if my installation still uses it or if it's safe to remove it. It's a production server. I can have down time only during weekend. I would very much like to avoid breaking it by messing with the boot process.

What should I do and how?

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Directory and Authentication / Folder Redirection to limit profile size

« on: July 23, 2019, 10:58:39 pm »

My users tend to store lot of things on Desktop and in User Shell folders (documents, etc.). For backup reasons, I have roaming profiles enabled so all these files are saved on server as well.

Problem is that these profiles often have size of several gigabytes and the log in and log out times are very long (minutes, sometimes even more than 10 minutes). I wanted to do Folder redirection of large folders to their home shares as per https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configuring_Windows_Profile_Folder_Redirections. Sadly, this does not work well on my Windows 10 clients. Values in registry get changed to correct ones, but doesn't really work. Some folders (desktop and AppData) did get redirected, but clicking on Documents in Explorer still lead to old C:\Users\xx\Documents location.

Any experiences/tips on what to do about this? Feel free to offer different solution than Folder redirection. Thanks.