But don’t let the excitement distract us from the very important task of welcoming all of the amazing new NethServer members who have joined the group recently!
For all you NethServer veterans and greeters (@Jim, @robb, @vhinzsanchez) give me a hand in making sure every single new member feels welcome and at home. Respond to their comments and show them what NethServer community is all about.
Hi Guys, welcome to the community…welcome to the team. Its really nice to have more people aboard, to make the community, NethServer in General, better. We would also like to hear your thoughts, your challenges and ideas which will make NS better.
Again, hopefully, the NS has satisfied your needs, if not, or if you are encountering issues, pls. do not hesitate to share them with the community. We have very able and lively community here.
Were you able to get NethServer up and running?
How was your experience? Since one of the goals of NethServer is ease of setup and administration, maybe you would like to share how your setup was done…any challenges?
The setup was easy, and i had to do a second rebuild that was very easy to restore from the backup.
I am now looking into some more fine grained control and it took me a while to find related documentation for SME.
Since our work involves a lot of high bandwidth data (Some workstations are on 10g NICs) to a dedicated solaris server, I needed to reconfigure the home directories from the default location to our own one. What I don’t know is how much I can mess with stuff under the hood before it breaks the system, including the web UI.
In some ways the web UI is a little too basic, but it certainly is getting there.
Breaking the system is hard, most of the configuration files are templates so it’s very likely that you can revert the system with a simple signal-event.
Do you mean this?
Can you suggest us some improvements? Why is it too basic?
Do you have any ideas? We’d love to hear those to make NethServer better. Without suggestions, NethServer may have been stuck since inception. Our developers here are all ears and without ideas, suggestions, it may not have gotten to where it is now.
OK, after installing Nethserver under some serious duress, I am finally figuring out that its even better than I thought. It took me a while to find the docs though.
Is there a TLDR version of the e-smith docs, especially for those of us who have to use it in severe anger
WRT to the web UI, if you’re going to keep it simple (simple is good, BTW), please put documentation in the Help menu as to how to deal with more complex setups.
recreating an LDAP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, FTP server for a small business
after their old system got fried (and no backups). Had to recreate
everything quickly.
I am finally figuring out that its even better than I thought. It
took me a while to find the docs though
Yeah, happy to hear your insights, How can we improve this path over
the doc? Any suggestion?
There is no reference to templates or e-smith in the Admin docs. This
should be listed as feature! Simple systems are great, but people want
to know that they can dig into the guts of a system if they have to.
Is there a TLDR version of the e-smith docs, especially for those
of us who have to use it in severe anger
If I understand correctly you need some easy FAQs and not a long doc?
Which kind of topics you’d like to be covered?
A link to an introduction on the e-smith/templates would be good. It
took a fair amount of googling to find my way back to the Dev docs.
A link in each help section to advanced configuration would also be good.
I am good. We are using it in production - working well now that I know how to get more detailed stuff configured. I have run out of time to figure some stuff out so I have left it as is. Like why are Users/Groups seem to be switched
OK, after installing Nethserver under some serious duress
Which kind of duress?
recreating an LDAP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, FTP server for a small business
after their old system got fried (and no backups). Had to recreate
everything quickly.
mhatton:
I am finally figuring out that its even better than I thought. It
took me a while to find the docs though
Yeah, happy to hear your insights, How can we improve this path over
the doc? Any suggestion?
There is no reference to templates or e-smith in the Admin docs. This
should be listed as feature! Simple systems are great, but people want
to know that they can dig into the guts of a system if they have to.
mhatton:
Is there a TLDR version of the e-smith docs, especially for those
of us who have to use it in severe anger
If I understand correctly you need some easy FAQs and not a long doc?
Which kind of topics you’d like to be covered?
A link to an introduction on the e-smith/templates would be good. It
took a fair amount of googling to find my way back to the Dev docs.
A link in each help section to advanced configuration would also be good.
but here you are all the information on e-smith layer: