How many of you have switched/migrated from SME Server?

davidep · January 14, 2016, 2:41pm

A post was split to a new topic: Locked out of mysql

fausp · April 12, 2017, 4:56pm

After installing elinks with “yum install elinks” I tried the command but got an SSL-Error…

Is there another way to access the server-manager via ssh ?

dnutan · April 12, 2017, 7:09pm

Occasionally I use SSH to forward a local port to the remote host. IIRC…

ssh -L localhost:9800:localhost:980 -p 22 sshuser@fqdn

then on the web-browser go to https://localhost:9800 to access the server-manager.

dnutan · April 12, 2017, 8:44pm

the links2 CLI browser seems to be working (at least on NethServer 7):

yum install links
links2 https://localhost:980

fausp · April 12, 2017, 8:55pm

OK

yum install links
links2 https://localhost:980

This works for me… thanks !

dz00te · April 13, 2017, 8:37am

great!
this saved me after a problem with openvpn… please write it on wiki
tnx!

dnutan · April 13, 2017, 8:51am

Done

alefattorini · April 19, 2017, 10:19am

Quoting this from another discussion

I’d like to write together a doc on our wiki where collect all advice about migration from SME Server

@kieronrob @Bluelake @dnutan @paul_marwick @fausp @macwunder @flatspin could you help?

@Ale could you lead us? This discussion and that doc might be a good starting point Migration from NethService/SME Server — NethServer 7 Final
Don’t worry about your English we have many natives here that can correct our writings

Tagging also @Crazyusb @xmechanic @haliparotin @bjhankins @Erwis @bernhard @drifting@telekomiker @kieronrob @i_combo @panzerphreak @jfranco

flatspin · April 19, 2017, 2:20pm

I tried it on NS6.9 and it worked.

Andy_Wismer · September 15, 2017, 3:58pm

@alefattorini

I support about 20 Clients with their Network and IT System.

I’ve been using Linux Servers from the beginning - even though others called me a MS-Guru.
Started with SuSE Linux, still have clients using GroupWise / Linux but for most cases that’s too complicated. So tested out a few other distros and settled on SME5/SME6 at the time.

I also might add that I’m a VMWare user since 1999 (Yes, VMWare 1.0 beta!) but recently have moved to ProxMox. While I still consider VMWare a premium grade Virtualisation Platform, I don’t like the idea of needing a MS Server to administrate a Linux box, nor several more if i really want to use ESXi.

Same goes now for SME Linux. While it’s absolutely stable and rock solid it’s still stuck on it’s EL6 base, including very old PHP. And LetsEncrypt was the game changer. While I found the name amusing - considering the old PHP background - no, I just wasn’t going to install a package called dehydrate to be able to use LetsEncrypt.

Using OwnCloud, later NextCloud on SME was a PITA, and it never really worked well, just barely, again because of old PHP.

SME also wanted too many reboots. I mean, updating something like jpg-libs or such doesn’t really need the whole server to reboot!

I’ve actually only done one migration from SME, the rest was manual transfering. That transfer went quite well. The others had too many legacy stuff I didn’t want migrated!

Nethserver has the same base, but runs on newer Centos EL7.
OK, NextCloud needs a PHPSCL environment like SME, but with less headache. It works fairly well.

And yes, I’m one of the Mac users here. I can handle Windows and Linux extremly well, but my personal boxes are all mac. And one PiTop (Raspberry) Notebook. My Clients use Windows more than I do, but they also use Mac and Linux.

Besides the 7.4 s*it served from upstream, NethServers been a great server!
Let’s keep it that way!

Best regards from Switzerland!
Andy

paul_marwick · January 13, 2016, 10:46pm

filippo_carletti
Dev Team
            January 12
paul_marwick:

                  I didn't realise
that the migration did not import data from the
SME backup, only settings.

              No, the migration

imports everything: settings AND data.

              Obviously, data has to be present in the backup.

:) My error - I had forgotten that NS uses different locations for

mail and iBays. The data was there…

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                  it imported
things like /root/.ssh, but failed to pick up
/root/.synbak/tar

              AFAIK, the whole
/root directory is copied (I did tens of migrations).

On my second attempt it was, but for some reason some things weren't

on the first attempt.

paul_marwick:

                  Is there an
equivalent to the “signal-event post-upgrade;
signal-event reboot” that SME uses to expand all
templates?

              I'd say NO, because
NS don’t need such a big hammer. But to expand all
templates and restart the relevant services (no
reboot, a business server shouldn’t be rebooted) you
can use:

Thanks. The reboot sequence that SME always seems to need is one o

fmy least favourite features I must admit. I’ll keep that one in
mind.

>  /etc/e-smith/events/actions/system-adjust

paul_marwick:

                  Is it possible
to use a text-mode browser with the Nethserver
server manger?

Yes:

> elinks [https://localhost:980](https://localhost:980)

`      I've not managed to get that to work. Elinks comes up with SSL

errors. Lynx gets a bit further, but still fails to load the
server manager.

paul_marwick:

                  ability to limit
server manager access to specific IPs

              Access to all
network services can be limited through the Network
services menu.

I've not looked closely at that yet.

I ended up trying again, twice. I ended up with errors both times,

so I must be doing something wrong. I’ve captured the section of
/var/log/messages just before the error starts:

Jan 13 16:17:57 goldie esmith::event[28751]: Migrating existing

database fetchmail

Jan 13 16:17:57 goldie esmith::event[28751]: Migrating existing

database dhcp

Jan 13 16:17:57 goldie esmith::event[28751]: Action:

/etc/e-smith/events/nethserver-mysql-update/S00initialize-default-databases
SUCCESS [0.240041]

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS

OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:       SERVERS IN

PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: In order to log into

MySQL to secure it, we’ll need the current

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: password for the root

user. If you’ve just installed MySQL, and

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: you haven't set the

root password yet, the password will be blank,

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: so you should just

press enter here.

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]:

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: Enter current password

for root (enter for none):

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: ERROR 1045 (28000):

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: Enter current password

for root (enter for none):

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: ERROR 1045 (28000):

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: Enter current password

for root (enter for none):

Jan 13 16:17:58 goldie esmith::event[28751]: ERROR 1045 (28000):

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’ (using password: NO)

In the first case, I'd set up the correct domain information and the

name of the server that the backup is derived from. I’d also updated
the NS installation and added the necessary packages to cover the
functions that I needed. In the second, I’d not set the domain to
what it should be eventually, but the error was the same in each
case.

I'll have another look in a couple of days - too many jobs to do for

the next few days.

Paul