I posted it to the dev-info list on Wed, 06 Feb 2002. You can find it here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg07803.html
I think Shad L. Lords did a better follow up to my post, where he went into
more detail and pushed a little farther with ext3 support. Find that at:
On Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Charlie Brady wrote:
To clarify things for me, what benefit do we derive out of this? Are we
templating php.ini just so it's like everything else, or is
there a deeper
reason?
There is a deeper reason.
I suspected as much, or I wouldn't have really
On Sunday, February 10, 2002, Dan Brown wrote:
I've updated David Brown's PHP upgrade HOWTO to reflect the PHP
4.1.1 RPMs I recently uploaded to ftp.e-smith.org. It's still at
http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/php-upgrade-howto-sme512.html. Any
feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks
To clarify things for me, what benefit do we derive out of this? Are we
templating php.ini just so it's like everything else, or is there a deeper
reason? I can see templating files that rely on changes in the server
configuration (i.e. httpd.conf or smb.conf), but php.ini does not need to be
a
-Original Message-
From: w9ya [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 11:34 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fwd: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules
Finally someone at e-smith/Mitel that can state the obvious
without being in
middle of a cat-fight. Thank you.
-Original Message-
From: Adam Sleight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 1:36 PM
To: David Brown; w9ya; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules
My point is that I hardly think Mitel is behind times
Nor do I. The problem is that we
I think the confusion is based on trying to both firewall and
serve? At least
it is for me. I seem to remember when e-smith recommended that
firewalling
and serving should be done separately, on separate equipment. I
tend to agree
with that.
OK, but the issue is being a gateway, not so
But you want to know when somebody is going to do it for you though!
This faceless w9ya is clearly a troll and best ignored.
This is exactly what I was talking about earlier. How can discussion
like this possibly be productive? Bob was simply stating his opinion on
the subject like
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From: Graeme Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:52 PM
To: David Brown
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; w9ya; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] Masq modules
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote:
Agreed. Bob is raising valid points and your flaming him
On Thursday, February 07, 2002, Darrell May wrote:
David, many thanks for taking the time to put this mini-Howto together. I
might have some time over the weekend to give it a try myself.
No problem at all. I'd appreciate it if other people would try this out and
verify that it works for
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, David Brown wrote:
Here's the biggest problem (as has already been stated several
times): even if we get all the latest up to date RedHat 7.2 packages up
and
running.
I guess I should read what I post before I post it. :) What I meant to say
was:
Here's the biggest
-Original Message-
From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 3:43 PM
To: David Brown; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo
David Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
we still need masq modules for pptp
-Original Message-
From: Darrell May [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 4:01 PM
To: Charlie Brady; Darrell May
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [e-smith-devinfo] 2.4.x Kernel Upgrade Mini-HowTo
Charlie Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This is
disclaimer
First, let me preface this by saying that I have never messed with kernel
upgrades before, and I am just writing this so people who want to mess with
trying to upgrade their SME servers to a 2.4.x kernel and see what breaks (a
bit of stuff). Don't ask me complicated questions about
Well, the title says it all. You can find it at
http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/php-upgrade-howto-sme512.html
Many thanks to Charlie Brady for basically making this work and helping me
work the bugs out of the HowTo.
David M. Brown
Frick, Frick Jetté Architects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
After a successful upgrade to SMEv5.1.2, I was surprised to find that PHP
was left at v4.0.4pl1-9. No matter, as the v4.0.6-10 files were still on
the server. I proceeded to follow Dan Brown's How To at
http://www.familybrown.org/howtos/php-upgrade-howto-2.html, but I'm getting
the following
answering what I know
I used ths HOWTO for PHP upgrade on SME5.0
http://sme.nightspirit.nl/php-upgrade.html
I don't dare to upgrade again, since I use TTF-fonts in some cases.
Thor
The files listed on this site are the same as the files in Dan Brown's
HowTo, so I doubt that I'll get a
On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Charlie Brady wrote:
Try fetching the php 4.0.6-7 RPMs from my contrib directory, and using
them instead of the arvin RPMs. The src RPM is straight from RH7.2, but
has been recompiled so that the binary RPMs exactly match the library
dependencies of SME 5.x.
Before
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:22 PM, Greg Zartman wrote:
Following is a draft Samba -Win NT security model howto. It may
be a little
rough around the edges as it's a bit late as I now finish this thing.
Please comment/modify as seen fit.
Greg, this is great! Thanks for jumping in and
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 3:31 PM, Greg Zartman wrote:
David Brown posted a workaround for the problem in these apps when you
first raised the issue:
This isn't a work around. It's more like trying to fix the wing of an
airplane with duct-tape. I explored this option in my shop
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:33 PM, Greg Zartman wrote
Technically, this isn't my statement. If you'd be interested, I
can dig-up
and forward the white papers that document this issue in detail.
This is probably a good thing to include/reference in a HowTO so you can
support what you
On Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:43 PM, Gordon Rowell wrote:
- One option is to set domain admin group = @shared to include
all users
on the SME Server
- Question: Wouldn't that mean that any valid user could log in and
change any setting on the local workstation as an Administrator
Given this statement, is it possible for *some* users to have roaming
profiles? I know I personally dislike roaming profiles under
Windoze, since
there tends to be a configuration fight between installation of
Windoze on
different machines, but equally, I recognise that they're absolutely
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Greg Zartman wrote:
Until Samba implements a wider range of user groups beyond two
(domain users
and domain admins) or MS developers start writing software differently,
users need to have at least power user preveldge to run many apps. The
above parameter places all
If you set logon drive = H: (or whatever), the user will have
\\servername\username automatically mapped to that drive and netlogon.bat
will run
under that drive. Without a clear definition, I believe samba defaults to
using Z:
OK, the above isn't entirely true: logon drive = H: will map H:
Which means, it would appear, that H: would end up mapped to (in SME's
case) \\%N\%U\._winprofile, which would really mess things up, I fear.
However, according to the Samba docs for 2.2.2, logon home will
be used in full for profiles access and truncated to the parent
directory for
See also an earlier message in this thread:
http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo@lists.e-smith.org/msg06526.html
I read that message, but it is slightly incorrect. To disable roaming
profiles, only logon path needs no value, not logon home. As I stated in my
discussion on logon drive
On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 5:09 PM Gordon Rowell wrote:
[...]
I'm having trouble getting the printing to work right
under samba 2.2.2, and I didn't know if the permissions was part of the
problem.
[...]
Is it printing or installation of printer drivers which is failing?
Well,
On Monday, November 12, 2001 at 5:09 PM Gordon Rowell wrote:
[...]
The question I have about e-smith-samba-1.1.0-14 is regarding
how it sets
the permissions on the directories for the printer drivers. Dan Brown's
How-To says to run chmod -R 777 on the directories, and I wanted to know
I've got a couple of quick suggestions and questions about the
e-smith-samba-1.1.0-14 rpm. It looks like the template fragments
11logonPath and 11logonHome got switched, as they each point to the other
one's variable, i.e. 11logonPath has logon home = and 11logonHome has logon
path =
Also, I
I have this up and running as well, except for the web monitoring, which I
just found out existed. That'll teach me to *really* RTFM. :) I also
botched the link in /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S20apcupsd This might be a question out
of ignorance, but is this a symbolic link (ln -s) or a hard link, and what
Well, I guess I can consider myself less ignorant now. Too bad man pages
can't be so helpful :) So, as it looks to me, there are very few instances
where you would use hard links while doing system admin and the like.
Thanks for the informative lessons.
David M. Brown
Frick, Frick Jetté
Just a few comments about this fragment:
# [20domainadmingroup]
# This parameter is intended as a temporary solution to enable
# users to be a member of the Domain Admins group when a Samba
# host is acting as a PDC.
domain admin group = @admin
The domain admin group parameter accepts a
One suggestion I have for the dmc-mitel-samba-2.2.1a-2.noarch.rpm is that I
think the custom template 10globals should actually be 11passwordChat with
just the information necessary to sync the passwords, since this is the only
addition that has been made to the 10globals fragment. Other than
I had the same problem initially, but if you set strict locking = no in
smb.conf, it ends this problem. I don't know if it breaks anything else,
but I haven't noticed any adverse effects.
David M. Brown
Frick, Frick Jetté Architects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
One glitch however - I want to use
On Friday, September 28, 2001 7:47 AM, Greg Zartman wrote:
When the machine leaves the samba domain and then tries to rejoin again,
it regenerates a new random machine password that doesn't match the
machine password in smbpasswd database.
snip
Good point... However,some type of transfer
Greg, I don't quite understand this concept of Samba removing a machine
account from the domain when that machine leaves the domain. From what I
have observer with a small WinNT domain with a WinNT 4.0 Server acting as
the PDC, client machines can leave the domain i.e. change to a workgroup,
but
In response to the original post, 3ware's FAQ talks about a specific DELL
problem.
http://www.3ware.com/support/faqs.shtml#g17
David M. Brown
Frick, Frick Jetté Architects
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Tom Lyon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 2:47 PM
To: [EMAIL
This seems odd to me - I just setup an e-smith server with a 3ware Escalade
6410 with no problems at all. I had no ide drives other than those
connected to the raid controller, and they were blank. Booted off the CDROM
and did a standard install from scratch. Not a single problem. My
, Frick Jette Architects
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-Original Message-
From: Sage Telecommunications [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 5:22 PM
To: David Brown; J.I Kim; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [e-smith-devinfo] Server monitoring module ready for download
New summary
This change got me a listing for eth1, but the link at the top of the page
for eth0 and eth1 both point to generating graphs for eth0. I can't give
many suggestions on this one, except that I thought the original problem
might have to deal with the foreach $key (@dispRed) line (which we have
now
I have the server monitoring module up and running, and it runs nicely. I
was wondering if it is possible to add eth1 to what is being monitored. eth0
is my internal NIC, and I think it would be useful to monitor the external
NIC as well. Is this an easy thing to add to the module?
David M.
This all worked great on my server, but you might want to revise your links
for the i686 rpms to all say i686.rpm, as this is what really needs to be
downloaded. Other than that, everything worked great, including webmail,
phpMyAdmin, phpSysInfo, and phpSystem. Thanks for the HowTo.
David M.
This HowTo says to run /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart but two previous posts
to devinfo have listed httpd-e-smith as the appropriate service to restart,
as well as running it through /etc/rc7.d/S85httpd-e-smith. Does this make a
difference? Also, the HowTo lists Darrell May's email attachment
I can duplicate the problem with the following system: Win2000 SP2 - IE 5.0
SP2 - Acrobat 5.0
I have no problem viewing
http://www.e-smith.org/docs/manual/print/userguide-4.1.pdf
but when I copy the same file to my e-smith 4.1.2 server and browse to it,
it causes IE to hang. I get the same
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