clearos5.1 migration, cont

problem: continuing migration

what im not doing: worrying

ran into some issues with fetchmail. to save time i copied the config file (/etc/fetchmail) from the old clarkconnect4.2 server and ran into problems straight away. seems the new server wants pop usernames, password and local usernames in quotes now! fixed file, but got the following error

client/server protocol error while fetching from blah-blah-blah

not much help! so, ssh'd in and ran the following

service fetchmail stop

fetchmail -v -f /etc/fetchmail -L ~/fetch

which is running fetchmail verbosely with the config file outputting to log in my home called fetch. i was able to note the following error

opportunistic upgrade to TLS failed, trying to continue.

obviously, not able to continue. to i googled around and found a few fixes that never worked. i then modified one of the fixes found by adding the following to the end of each account entry in the config file

sslproto ""

and all is well again!

clearos5.1 migration, cont

problem: continuing migration

what im not doing: worrying

although the web interface allows the sharing of users homes, it doesnt allow for a public shared folder as clarkconnect4.2 did... as i was used to this i copied the relevant section of the old smb.conf (/etc/samba/smb.conf) and appended it to the new servers config file. this also features a wee addendum for sharing the servers dvd drive as the small form factor client machines in the office are cd-rom only.

[shared]

comment = Public shared folder

path = /home/shared

browseable = yes

guest only = yes

writeable = yes

public = yes

[dvd]

comment = DVD

path = /mnt/hdd

writeable = no

locking = no

then the usual

service smb restart

at the moment im still having to manually mount dvds after insertion, but will get around to autofs or similar.