Every time I configure e-emith (4.1b3) with a text-mode browser I get "unactivated configuration changes" message when trying to exit the control console. Yet there is no "activate" button/link anywhere, and I'm perfectly sure that I did use the Save link in the text-mode browser. Reboot does not help.
I'm pretty sure the configuration changes are not saved, because even though I enabled ftp access from, say, public (or private) network, it is still refused by the server from anywhere, including the local network.
When I add my home machine to the local network to allow remote administration, I can get access to the e-smith-admin, but
there is no menu on the left-hand side, because, for whatever
reason, e-smith-server resolves the names to the local network address, not to its external address, as one would expect.
The whole thing is a complete mess, and I'm not sure if anything
can be done without reinstalling it completely, in which case
I might as well go for the real RH7, since my decision to use
e-smith for this network (I'm volunteering for my son's school) was
based entirely on the (unfulfilled) promised of saving time... Since
it's a volunteer work, there is no budget for commercial support
from e-smith.com. I was tempted by the features of e-smith like i-bays, webmail, atalk and samba working right out of the box, but if I can't even configure ftp access permissions, the whole thing is useless.
Sorry for the rant, I still hope I can get some useful advice here.
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