Topic: Acessing Server Manager

[peeteepee]

Hi all,

I've just installed SME Server on a spare machine and spent a frustrating hour or so trying to access Server Manager via my Mandrake 10.1 Linux PC. Neither Konqueror nor Firefox was able to access the web page http://HTTP://smeserver/server-manager. However, I eventually tried accessing using a Windows XP machine and it works.

Any ideas why my Linux box cannot access Server Manager? All the machines are connected via a Netgear router. The Linux box can see the SMEServer via Smb4K, I just can't load the web page on Linux.

Perplexed Peter  

[chris burnat]

try https://
use IP address in lieu of name of the box, it may help.

[russs]

I'm not exactly an expert on SME but I have had no trouble connecting to SME on Linux or Windows and with either the IP address or name. The obvious thing to me is DNS settings. Make sure that both the Windows and Linux boxes are pointing towards valid DNS servers which would know the name of the SME server or I guess you could make some kind of manual LMHOSTS entry? As I say I am not an expert! And of course the IP option mentioned by Burnat should work fine too.

Just an idea I would try.  

[arne]

I have logged into contribs.org from a Linux distro that I booted from a USB stick, http://slax.linux-live.org/ In the one window I am online to the sme server manager and in the other I'm online to contribs.org

During the years I have never experienced problems to log on the server-manager panel from any Linux distribution.

I do agree that the problem is likely to be somewhere else, like the dns resolver setup of the Mandrake or a firewall problem.

To clear out a firewallproblem on the Mandrake PC, I think you can only run this command from shell: "iptables -F", and then "iptables -L" to check that it is open.

Then to eleminate a dns resolving problem, you can just logon to the server manager like this:
http://10.0.0.2/server-manager
or this:
https://10.0.0.2/server-manager

I allways use the local ip adress when I log in from diverse more or less experimental Linux distributions, just to avoid this typical dns problem on the lan.

Please report back if it did work or if it did not work.

Best reg Arne.

[arne]

Forgot to mention: The Web browser I am using just now for the server-manager access is Konqueror.

Arne.

[peeteepee]

Thanks for the tips guys - I'm feeling a bit of a fool now. Forgot the DNS issue and it was this that caused the problem. Logging in using the IP address rather than the server name worked fine, both with Konqueror and Firefox.

Onwards and upwards now. Thanks once again.

PTP