Do you have any particular suggestion to submit? Maybe a wizard like this might do the job? What to you think? Please reply directly to the discussion:
Good to know about this reference, thanks for the feedback.
You’re new here so your opinion is really important for us, what do you think about @Jim’s thoughts? Once gain, please reply there:
Would you mind to give it a try? You seem very expert on this side and we need to improve more and more the firewall part, by the way a comparison between NethServer and Mikrotik might be cool!
I’m not an expert 
Mikrotik is love-hate relationship. Main thing I like on mikrotik is it’s virtually unlimited features/functions. The only official GUI is WinBox what is nearly “clickable CLI interface” only. So you are not limited by functions exposed by GUI like on other PPS devices (Plastic Piece of Shit), you can do anything what you want. But you must know what you are doing. Not from the Mikrotik point-of-view, but from general networking. Because if you want to configure something, you must really know how things work under the bonnet, not like “I click here to see what this is doing”. For me as very lazy person this is an advantage, because it forces me to study stuff from the ground .
But this is the exception. Generally I prefer user-friendly GUI when it comes to something I am setting for the first time. If I like it, I can study it deeply, but if it made me confused on start, there is only one option - delete VM from disk .
I promise I will look into NS deeply and write some suggestions 
Hi everybody,
I run a small sales office for an Italian company in China (industrial equipment/machinery).
I started working with computers quite a while ago (1983, I guess, with a brand new Olivetti M24…) and DOS 2.11; later I followed the path to Windows and only 2 years ago I started using Linux (Mint) as my main OS.
Our office is currently using an aging SBS2008 server and it is the quest to replace/upgrade this OS that lead me to Nethserver; particularly the fact that Microsoft has terminated all the SBS line and is pushing the small/medium customers towards the cloud. This is not a viable solution here in China.
I started evaluating other types of solutions (fileserver, groupware, mail server) and then I stumbled upon a review of Nethserver and decided to give it a try. I was amazed by the ease of setting up the system and in just 1 hour I had a test mail/file server running in my home PC.
Few more weeks of work allowed me to set up a test server in the office and arrange a simple trial run during a local holiday.
The test was positive and so I decided to switch our office to Nethserver; this will happen after Chinese new year (when I will be back in China from my holidays).
As soon as I will go on-line I will report back my complete experience.
Massimo
Welcome on NethServer Community italian/chinese friend!
do you like Ma Po Tofu? 
Do you think that we need a Chinese version of NethServer? Do you know any translator?
Very curious about your Chinese tests and report, please keep us in touch!
Happy Chinese new year! 
Hi everyone,
Sorry for the late response! I’m finally getting back to my NethServer investigation after a month.
My name is Kelvin Kang and I’m a technologist at heart; I enjoy learning and experimenting with new technologies especially ones that solve interesting problems for me. Professionally, I’m responsible for engineering at a local start up here in Toronto, Ontario, Canada that focuses on in-store retail experience. Although I understand these technologies, I’m less hands-on then I was 10 years ago as most of my day-to-day responsibilities now revolve in meetings
I’m looking at NethServer to setup network infrastructure for external access to both our cloud and local internal infrastructure. I’m currently working with @Nas who is guiding me through the process.
In my spare time, I don’t do anything because I have no spare time! In all seriousness, I used to be an avid snowboarder and paintballer until the arrival of my son. Now, I’m an avid father!
I have multiple installs of NethServer as I’ve been comparing it between Zentyal as well as ClearOS. NethServer looks quite promising in general.
Kelvin
Ehi Kelvin, sorry for the late response!
I’m happy to hear from you, how is your investigation going?
How are you using your multiple installs? Which services implemented?
Thanks for your words, make this your place. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to start (and engage in) discussions that make this community an interesting place to be.
Have a nice day!
@alefattorini My investigation is going well albeit slowly. I’ve been able to setup two gateway servers in total. The primary services turned on are VPN, Gateway, DNS and DHCP. One of the nicer features that I like about Nethserver is that machines with hostnames automatically get a DNS name as well. I’ve seen this with Active Directory but this is a really nice feature that Zentyal didn’t have. It makes management a lot easier.
I currently use OpenVPN for client connection to the servers but for network security reasons, my setup has to use IPSec Tunnels between two physical locations. I’ve just started down the exploration down this path. I have ambitions of using NethServer for work purposes as well if my experiment pans out.
Kelvin
I’m glad of this but I’m wondering, ts there anything that can help in your investigation? How can we make things faster?
I’d like to help people to jump directly to the action with NethServer
That’s a great feedback, thanks for reporting it.
Which work purposes are you thinking about? I would support your ambitions please let me know how can I help with 
@alefattorini Thanks for the offer. I think right now the biggest issue is time. I work on this bit by bit every day. I’m currently reviewing this how-to: Setup muliple site office with point-to-point ipsec vpn and separate DC It’s pretty close to what I want to do. I just have to validate how it works. If I do run into other issues or if it doesn’t work, I can create a specific thread for it.
All in all though, I have been very impressed with Nethserver from a product and community perspective. The support today has helped me get a lot further on this than I ever did with Zentyal. I also do have a list of nice-to-haves that would make setting this up for me from a professional perspective a much more compelling product offering.
Kelvin
@Tom Have you installed NethServer in production or still testing? I’m waiting for your Guinness yet
@maxbet whats’up in China? Still waiting for your complete experience!
I have it running on a virtual machine and I like it. I found it relatively easy to set up and it worked without any surprises. I have not any opportunity at the moment to run it in a live production environment.
I have also tried the Raspberry Pi version. It has potential as a home server on the Pi. I have it successfully sending and receiving mail for a test domain that I registered. Roundcube is working but I am not sure about SoGo as the url didn’t work. I need to look a little more to see if it is set up automatically in the Pi version or do I need to do more?
Regards,
Tom
It is not available for arm 
If we want this it must be complied from source;
already thought about taking up this challenge although i think a pi is to “light” for the job.
who knows maybe some day…
A brief update of my experience with Nethserver…
We switched from SBS2008 to Nethserver during the first weekend of April (bank holiday here in China). The installation went quite smoothly and the shared folders (important feature for us) were easy to configure and worked without major problem (Nethserver is PDC with 12 clients and 2 printers).
Most of the problems came from the email server, but it turned out I misconfigured something in the domain name; once fixed and set properly the A records, it all started working very well.
My initial plan was to let users decide between Outlook and Thunderbird, but an apparent “BUG” in Outlook 2016 makes it unusable in domains without Exchange; this forced all of us to switch to Thunderbird and this created some dissatisfaction.
The “killer app” that switched the opinion of the user was Owncloud; I started Owncloud in order to share calendar and contacts, thus mimicking Exchange 2007; the possibility to do so across various platforms (IOS and ANDROID) and the added possibilities of the cloud (file sharing between devices and external users) definitely won the users.
Another feature which was very appreciated is the spam filter : now it was really working (in Exchange was a joke…) and cut the amount of spam we receive daily from 100 messages do almost zero.
Summarizing : an overall positive experience and thank to Nethserver I managed to switch over to a Linux based solution despite my inexperience with that type of server OS.
My next targets are : create a backup server (now the backup is running on a USB disk) and revise the UPS structure.
A request : adding APCUPSD to the UPS software would be useful, particularly for all the users with UPS having network interfaces (AP96xx). We have AP9619 with environmental monitoring and we are stuck to it as we have to make sure that the server shuts down in case the air conditioning system fails.
Regards
It sounds a good idea.
In the meanwhile, on NS 7, you install it straight from epel:
yum install apcupsd
I already have apcupsd running on NS6.7. I just downloaded the rpm from epel and installed it. The only issue is to configure it for automatic startup (init files).
My wish was to have apcupsd as a package for NS with the same level of integration as NUT (collectd graphs, etc.). As an alternative, it could be helpful to have the apcupsd driver for NUT; in this way we could use NUT on NS as a client of an apcupsd server (i.e. pfSense).
I forgot to mention that I found a small issue in Hylafax : one of the configuration files handled by NS is not properly written. I will try to document it on my test system at home.
Sounds good, please document it soon! We’re so happy to see you back around here!
