Re: [LUG] Zentyal [WAS: Best distro for a small business laptop]

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Subject: Re: [LUG] Zentyal [WAS: Best distro for a small business laptop]

From: Matthew Cremore <mcremore@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 21:58:58 +0100

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I've set up Zentyal 3.3 at work as a backup DC and it works very well.

When I've got time I'll seriously consider making it the PDC.

Very easy to administer, with good help and how-to videos online. It also has free nightly cloud backups of the config so it should be straight forward to set up a new server should one go down.

One thing I found that I'd change should I reinstall - I used my domain username as the admin name for the Zentyal install. Don't do this as now the names conflict, use something else.

I'll update to 3.4 then 3.5 when I'm feeling confident...

On 11 September 2014 17:03, Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Be interested in your further experiences, Dave. I looked at this over a year ago and it was pretty limited, but that was before Samba4 emerged. Didn't help I don't know much about running a domain, either!

On 11 September 2014 11:57, Dave <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
@ Steve Tremayne - I've just installed it (3.5) on a test box, alongside a CentOS 6.5 /Samba 4 (a separate box) with the aim of testing it as:

A DC - Completely new domain
An additional DC within a Windows 2008R2 /2012 domain
As a replacement DC to migrate away from MS.

This is something I've been meaning to do since Samba 4 came out!

The install was a breeze and a lot less work than the CentOS/Samba4 one and looking at the way it's set out - quite Webmin like - it's looks as though it may be a fairly straight forward affair, I'm certainly looking forward to seeing how it gets on with a small MS set-up - 1x DC, 1x File Server, 150 users, 60ish desktop PC's, laptops, netbooks and tablets.

I'm hoping for good things from Zentyal.

Cheers

Dave

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