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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Keyboard failiure within installation progress

« on: June 09, 2014, 06:03:16 pm »

Some report success on HP servers by using a USB hub:

https://forum.zentyal.org/index.php/topic,21819.0.html

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Another Upgrade from 3.3.9 to 3.4 Failure

« on: June 08, 2014, 06:55:33 pm »

I think that the Zentyal Community Edition has ceased to exist. That might mean nothing to established SMBs actively migrating from Microsoft solutions (they'll skip the "community" side of things altogether), but it does negatively impact startups, small businesses, and entrepreneurs who are exploring growth strategies.

Zentyal S.L. has not tangibly demonstrated interest in shepherding small businesses into the OSS/Linux fold, at least not recently. The target market seems to be existing Microsoft users, wooed through the commercial offerings. The community activity is commercial product development without usability promises or meaningful length of support.

I wonder if all that (kill the free product and initiate aggressive development releases) means Zentyal S.L. is under financial results pressures. A wait-and-see approach, before contacting sales, does not seem unreasonable.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Zentyal 3.4 UPS service not running

« on: May 27, 2014, 02:03:10 pm »

I encountered this, or something like it, with Zentyal 3.2 when I wrongly supplied a serial number for a UPS connected by a serial connection. Serial numbers are for USB-connected UPSs (as the configuration page says).

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: cant add new object to network (error in MAC address)

« on: May 15, 2014, 06:14:46 pm »

I didn't know there were 7-group MAC addresses, but if there are, this is probably a bug. I suspect Zentyal limits MAC address to conventional 6-group addresses.

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Installation and Upgrades / Permitting DNS lookups that use the hostname only?

« on: May 11, 2014, 12:52:59 am »

I have a case where an application installer looks for an application server by hostname only. When the installer is created on the server, the hostname is written to the installer automatically. When the installer looks for the server, it looks for http://hostname/, which fails when run remotely (across a Zentyal VPN connection).

I can make things work on the target Windows machines using the hosts file. Is there a way to accomplish the task within Zentyal?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Captive Portal Mobile Devices

« on: May 05, 2014, 02:07:37 pm »

My limited experience with that behavior seems to be that it happens when a person doesn't log out (cookies?). But it sounds like you aren't getting that far?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: 64bit and 32bit

« on: May 01, 2014, 01:29:07 pm »

Try uname -m

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: 3.4 installation process different from documentation

« on: May 01, 2014, 01:18:34 pm »

Someone tried to install via CDROM ?

Does your server have an Internet connection at installation time?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Why does Ubuntu 14.04 LTS repository have only Zentyal 2.3.21?

« on: April 22, 2014, 03:19:20 pm »

I would like to emphasize this paragraph on the release policy page:

That part isn't unclear to me. What took time to sink in was the rolling release nature of community edition, meaning that this time investment for maintaining a system professionally recurs every three months, or four times a year. For all practical purposes, the test-learn-deploy cycle is non-stop. That's obvious to me now, but it wasn't at first. I retained the idea of a stable community edition option somehow.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Why does Ubuntu 14.04 LTS repository have only Zentyal 2.3.21?

« on: April 22, 2014, 01:32:44 pm »

Community edition upgrades cannot be considered safe. Period. That's a real shame.

At least the situation is becoming clearer. If I substitute "development" for "community" it all falls into place for me. Maybe I was just slow to see it correctly because I misunderstood the intent of Zentyal's community edition.

People opting for the rolling release development edition have the valuable benefit of long-term official support. The rest will have to decide how best to approach Zentyal without relying on a community edition in the traditional sense. That complicates things for people like me who thought that a community edition would serve as a good test case. But, that's life.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Why does Ubuntu 14.04 LTS repository have only Zentyal 2.3.21?

« on: April 20, 2014, 08:20:34 pm »

That's not true, at least I explained recently...

... And of course 3.2 is also not officially supported for community (it was unsupported as soon as 3.3 was out), and nothing is backported (with the exception of Service Packs, but that's only available for commercial editions), if you see updates coming is probably because they are fixes for some customer.

Maybe it is clear but still hard to comprehend? It sounds like there is no such thing as a supported, stable community edition. By "stable" I don't mean to imply that you're intentionally releasing unstable software to the community. I mean "stable" in the sense that Debian uses that term.

I know that Zentyal 3.2 bug reports are still being received and Zentyal 3.2 bugs are being fixed (my brief experience with v3.2 bug reporting and fixing has been excellent, by the way), but I take it that those are gifts to the community?

If in reality there are "testing" or "sid" versions of Zentyal available to the community and "stable" (3.2, 4.0, etc) is supported for the community by developer good will alone, that is a scenario that didn't necessarily prove obvious to the community from the provided official video and text information. Maybe that's what robb is sensing.

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News and Announcements / Re: Zentyal 3.5 Roadmap announced (some modules moved to Contrib)

« on: April 18, 2014, 08:45:10 pm »

Basically what this will mean for Zentyal users is: less issues.

Perfect. Thank you.

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News and Announcements / Re: Zentyal 3.5 Roadmap announced (some modules moved to Contrib)

« on: April 18, 2014, 06:31:30 pm »

Regarding the removal of OpenLDAP synchronization, the goal of Zentyal is to offer native replacement for Microsoft Active Directory and for this end, the only real choice is Samba4. Moreover, the decision is supported by the fact that OpenLDAP and Samba4 are very complicated to maintain simultaneously and having both for directory service is causing most of the directory issues.

What will this mean, if anything, to users not wanting to share files out at the network perimeter? Will Zentyal work seamlessly with other file sharing devices and/or software on the network?

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: HOWTO: Jabber configuration to hide "internal" groups in shared roster

« on: April 18, 2014, 02:52:32 pm »

Thank you to rholighaus and RAB (and to michelineney for "bumping" it). I look forward to trying this tweak out.

Edit: Had to fix a user name typo.

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Installation and Upgrades / Re: Changing rules interface is not supported. Remove the rule and add another for t

« on: April 05, 2014, 01:33:53 pm »

This was recently fixed. It may take a while for the update to come through. You have the option of applying the fix manually if needed.

https://tracker.zentyal.org/issues/549#change-1441