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Drew Ruggles - Wed, 2011/11/23 - 04:19
Round Six:
1. Trashed everything
2. Installed TKL-LAMP to bare metal via Unetbootin LiveUSB
3. Added Drew as a user
4. Installed Samba via apt-get in Webmin
5. Went to Webmin modules and tried to install webmin-samba. Boom! Only works under webmin 1.570
6. Went all CLI all over that: apt-get install webmin-samba
root@antilles /home/Drew# apt-get install webmin-samba Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: turnkey-sslcerts Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: webmin-samba 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 46 not upgraded. Need to get 257kB of archives. After this operation, 266kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.turnkeylinux.org/ubuntu/ lucid/main webmin-samba 1.520-turnkey+4+ga5a493f [257kB] Fetched 257kB in 0s (307kB/s) [master e19e435] saving uncommitted changes in /etc prior to apt run 15 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed Selecting previously deselected package webmin-samba. (Reading database ... 29553 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking webmin-samba (from .../webmin-samba_1.520-turnkey+4+ga5a493f_i386.deb) ... Setting up webmin-samba (1.520-turnkey+4+ga5a493f) ... Installed Samba Windows File Sharing in /usr/share/webmin/samba (1464 kb) [master fbc352c] committing changes in /etc after apt run 4 files changed, 122 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-) create mode 100644 webmin/samba/config
Looks good, right? Go to my servers menu, no Samba server.
7. More CLI
/etc/webmin/restart
Still no menu item.
OK, what's the procedure for adding Webmin modules so that they *actually* appear in the Webmin interface?
Thanks,
Drew
Forum:
You need a medal for perseverance! :)
Far out mate you don't give up easily do you!
TBH I have no idea why your Samba module is not displaying.AFAIK it should and I have installed other Webmin modules via apt-get and they have appeared in the interface immediately (IIRC correctly Samba should appear under Servers).
I'll have a quick look for you when I get home. The only thing that occurred to me is that you didn't mention installing Samba, but on reread of your post I see that you did that earlier. As you installed with apt-get it should be irrellevant whether it is via Webmin or commandline.
Hopefully I'll have time tonight to have a quick play and see if I can get it to work as expected and get back to you.
I just upgraded webmin...
I ran into a similar error trying to install Webmin addons.
Somewhere in the Webmin interface is an option to upgrade webmin, I did that (from the webmin UI and NOT from the cli) and can now install any webmin module without difficulty.
But I don't think the TKLBAM module isn't compatible with v1.570
AFAIK the TKLBAM module is only compatible with 1.520 (although I think theoretically it should work). All the other 1.520 modules are precompiled and in the TKL repo anyway. I have installed many of them with apt-get and have had no trouble getting them to appear. It has only been once Webmin is upgraded that the problems start (in my experience anyway).
Which is why I reformatted the Disk (again)
Started all over (not now, earlier) from a clean slate. No custom partitions, no LVM, just "use entire disk" when installing TKL LAMP. It gave me just 2 partitions this time -- FYI, I really think there is a bug in the Debian installer when any other setting is used -- Linux on ext4 and Linux Swap on an Extended Partition. Nice!
I made sure to *not* upgrade Webmin to avoid the pitfalls of losing it again, and there being no apparent backup of it in the TKL repositories...
I know this is suppose to show up in the Servers menu, but it's definitely not there. So then I stopped looking at and worked on my vbox install...
Drew
Sorry I didn't get to this last night
But I just tested this on a VM then and it worked for me. I was already logged into Webmin, on the server page (only SSH Server there). Then ran:
and refreshed the page (just hit reload) and 'Samba Windows File Sharing' showed up, so not sure why it isn't working for you? Perhaps it's a browser caching issue? (Although usually browsers don't cache SSL/https).
Some Success to Report
I did manage to get a good install of Virtualbox up, and installed a Lubuntu client. Then I installed and configured phpVirtualbox, and all is working as advertised. Haven't gotten the Samba server up and running, yet -- but I'm sure I can get it. I have a Ghost image of an XP workstation that is next up in the Vbox install. I'll set up a separate post, outlining the steps I took to get TKL-LAMP on bare metal up and running, and the vbox installation steps (tip: carefully walking through the command line interface -- vboxmanage -- section in the official manual is the only way I found this to work.)
Just wanted to let Jeremy know that all his advice has paid off, and I now have a good server w VM up and running, and thank him for all his patience working through this.
Drew
Thanks Drew
Glad to hear that after all your troubles you have finally had some progress!
And your most welcome for my help. I'm glad that I could be of assistance to you and that you were finally able to have some progess.
Look forward to your write up when you are all done.
PPTP-Server Webmin Module
Anyone know how to get the PPTP-Server module to appear in Webmin?
I installed via Command Line:
...so I would expect it to show up under Networking, but no luck. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Drew
OK, I need to catch up on sleep
I finally figured this out... OK, if I'm logged in to Webmin as Drew, and try to install a Webmin module from the Webmin Module Install page, it will barf because TKL is using Webmin 1.520, not 1.570. However, if I use the Command Line Interface:
apt-get install webmin-{module_name}it will install a 1.520 TKL version of the module. However, it wasn't showing up in my Webmin UI.
Here's the deal -- when I used the apt-get install command, I had to be logged in as root, otherwise I had permissions issues with trying to install as Drew (is there a setting where I can or should allow Drew to install...?). So, being logged in to the Webmin UI as Drew, I did not see the new modules. However, if I logged out of Webmin, and logged back in as root, Voila! All the modules I installed have appeared. I'm guessing I need to change my permissions somehow, but wanted to get an opinion on this.
Thanks.
Drew
Good detective work! :)
By default, standard user accounts can't make any system wide changes, only change local user settings (which are generally found in hidden folders in your home dir - usually /home/username). To make system wide changes from your standard user account you will want to install an app called 'sudo' (a sort of acronym for Super User DO). There is also another handy GUI sudo tool called gksudo (for launching GUI apps with super user priveleges). So as root user:
Also you'll need to add your user 'Drew' to the sudousers group.
Then you can do stuff that a root user can do (ie stuff a normal user can't do) by appending 'sudo' to the start of any of those commands eg to install package xyz, instead of
you'd do
It will then ask for your user password ('Drew' password) and will allow you to use sudo commands for 15 minutes idle (after which time it will ask for your password again).
As for the specifics for Webmin, TBH I'm not sure really but I suspect that it is configurable through Webmin. Although you could just use Webmin as root user if you wanted (you could be logged in locally as Drew, but log in to Webmin via your browser as root).
Depends what you are running and how it's configured.
However, this is the support forums of TurnKey Linux and we package Webmin ourselves. One of the reason we do that is so that only the bare minimum relevant modules need to be installed. Additional modules can be installed as needed/desired.
But because we package ourselves, sometimes our version is a little behind what Webmin themselves have available. When that happens often the latest plugins from Webmin won't work with the version of Webmin on TurnKey.
That's why we recommend you install using apt. Then it will work, no problems! :)
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