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Directory and Authentication / Separate Zentyal OS from SMB Storage

« on: August 09, 2018, 02:06:12 am »

I run Zentyal in a ProxMox VM for PDC, DNS and file shares for about 35 Windows clients. All of my shares are in the Zentyal VM install and the total server size is up around 7TB. Whenever I do Zentyal/OS updates I like to do a full VM backup so I can get back up and running quick if something goes wrong. The problem is that the backups take about 5-6 hours so it takes forever to do an OS upgrade and I have to do it on non-working hours. I could use some advice from you experts on moving the storage space to a separate VM. Could you give opinions or options on what has worked for you? I want to continue to use Zentyal as user/share/permissions manager.
I have tons of free HD space (36TB), memory (128GB) and CPU (32x Xeon) on the server.
FreeNAS (Overkill? Don't want or need the management)
Barebones Linux + NFS mount?

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Installation and Upgrades / Upgrade from 4.2 to 5.0

« on: December 31, 2017, 12:54:57 am »

I am trying to upgrade my Development Edition from version 4.2 to version 5 and am getting errors in both the GUI and the command line saying that my "License key cannot be validated." Does anyone know how to fix that?

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Directory and Authentication / Multifactor Authentication - 2FA

« on: March 03, 2017, 06:00:06 pm »

Are there any methods to enable multifactor authentication in Zentyal? I see that there is a PAM module that uses Google Authenticator and Samba4 can do the same. I'm not sure how the AD and Kerberos parts work and I haven't started any testing yet. Many companies (like mine) are being forced to be compliant to cyber security standard NIST 800-171 and it requires 2FA.

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Installation and Upgrades / Web Server (Apache2) access to samba shares

« on: March 10, 2013, 11:07:21 pm »

I have a strange problem that I have not found a solution for. I have Zentyal 3.0 set up to share directories between a bunch of users and I am also running the web server. I have modified the Apache2 config to authenticate users against the LDAP DB and it's working great. My problem is that I need apache to have access to some of the samba share directories for my users to access from outside the building. Every share directory created through the Zentyal interface is owned by user sync and group __USERS__ with read/write permissions for both and no permissions for the everyone user. If I manually change the entire tree structure permission to 775 then apache can access them fine but I need better security than that. In addition Zentyal overwrites those permissions anyway. I have tried creating a group called www-data which is the user/group apaches runs as and given that group read access to the shares but that does not work either.

Is there any way to give apache2 read access to a Zentyal/Samba share?

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Installation and Upgrades / Virtual Machines How To

« on: March 07, 2013, 09:14:44 pm »

I am having trouble installing any virtual machines on my new Zentyal 3.0. I have created a new virtual machine, NAT network adapter and hard disk through the Zentyal web interface. I then created a CD/DVD drive and pointed it to an Ubuntu 12.10 iso file and started the machine. I can click on the View Console and see the starting screen of the Ubuntu install but it looks like just a screen shot. How can I connect to this virtual machine to finish the install? The host Zentyal machine does not seem to have any of the normal KVM tools installed (libvirt, virt-manager, ect..) and I don't want to install them for fear of conflicts. Has anyone actually gotten a virtual machine to work through Zentyal?

PS
There appears to be a bug in the file name checking. Here is the original error I got and had to take all dashes and dots out of my file name and path. The error message contradicts itself. There is already a bug report about it.

Invalid value for /home/virtmachines/ubuntu-12.10/ubuntu-12.10-amd64.iso: ISO image. The path should contain only characters, digits, dots, dashes, directory separators and underscores