Topic: Stucked without clues!!!

[alejandro]

Hi All!!
I've just installed today  4.1.1 upgrading my 4.1 e-smith box.
I verified all was ok and make some tests during the day, but when i was going to leave it alone, I decided to try domain logon from the windows pcs, It was enabled by default as domain master. so I just only told windows pcs to log on to a domain named as the e-smith was.
everythig worked fine... but don't know why , e-smith-manager web page does not shows anymore in the browsers of any pc, neither some I-bays just primary html site. logged as admin on any pc is the same, no acces
I have control over the e-smith server via console or ssh connection, but dont want to modify file permission because I'm not really an advanced user (you may say: "what are you doing here?" and I would say asking the ones who could know about it)
the error message I receive is "permission denied" or something alike  (I really don't remember I'm home now) but what I'm sure is that was an access problem, I cant take a look to the state of i-bays because cant acces to the e-smith manager, what could I do?
I tryied reverting the logon to a domain in the windows pcs but was the same.
In one of the pcs I had not made changes yet but neither could access the e-smith-manager.
So no clues this side of the world....and time is counting down to the reinstallation process. (have a backup and reinstallation disks made from the just fresh installation of 4.1.1)
  is a dead or live of an e-smith box question,.. Any help could be crucial !!!
Thanks in advance
Alejandro

[Paul Miller]

alejandro wrote:
>
> Hi All!!
> I've just installed today  4.1.1 upgrading my 4.1 e-smith box.
> I verified all was ok and make some tests during the day, but
> when i was going to leave it alone, I decided to try domain
> logon from the windows pcs, It was enabled by default as
> domain master. so I just only told windows pcs to log on to a
> domain named as the e-smith was.
> everythig worked fine... but don't know why , e-smith-manager
> web page does not shows anymore in the browsers of any pc,
> neither some I-bays just primary html site. logged as admin
> on any pc is the same, no acces
> I have control over the e-smith server via console or ssh
> connection, but dont want to modify file permission because

You shouldn't ever have to modify file permissions from console.

> I'm not really an advanced user (you may say: "what are you
> doing here?" and I would say asking the ones who could know
> about it)
> the error message I receive is "permission denied" or
> something alike  (I really don't remember I'm home now) but
> what I'm sure is that was an access problem, I cant take a
> look to the state of i-bays because cant acces to the e-smith
> manager, what could I do?

From ssh you could log on to your e-smith box.  Then run lynx localhost/e-smith-manager to make changes just like you would from one of your client machines.  Just takes a bit getting used to it.

> I tryied reverting the logon to a domain in the windows pcs
> but was the same.
> In one of the pcs I had not made changes yet but neither
> could access the e-smith-manager.
> So no clues this side of the world....and time is counting
> down to the reinstallation process. (have a backup and
> reinstallation disks made from the just fresh installation of
> 4.1.1)

It might also be helpful to look in /var/log/messages to see unusual patterns around the date of the problem.  Lots of messages, maybe learn to use grep and pipe to less to prune out some dates or other patterns you think might be good.

cd /var/log/messages
grep "Mar 11" messages|less

is a start.  

>   is a dead or live of an e-smith box question,.. Any help
> could be crucial !!!
> Thanks in advance
> Alejandro

Hope this is some help.

Paul Miller

[Alejandro]

Thanks a Lot Paul!

What was the problem?
I would never figured out that the problem was pppoe link down!
the day of the problem my isp had stopped the service cause a technical problem so we were out of line for about 6 hours.
during that lapse I was not able to access web based manager from the lan, when the asdl link started again the problem was solved.
By the way...the error code was 111 and the error message was "connection refused"
I really dont know wy this relation, cause last week, when I was using standard modem dialup connection and the link was down there was no problem to use the web bassed control panel.
Your help is very usefull !! and will aid me a lot cause I' know very few commands in Linux and Unix (thats why I use MC to navigate the server from inside.)

Thanks again
Alejandro.