Webmin replacement

[George Farris]

On Tue, 2007-06-03 at 23:23 -0800, Corey Burger wrote:
> On 3/6/07, George Farris <farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca> wrote:
> > At some point there was a discussion about using Webmin or replacing it,
> > has there been any discussion about this?  Is Ubuntu recommending
> > something else or some other framework?
> 
> There are a few replacements out there, the most promising I can find is Ebox:
> http://ebox-platform.com/
> 
> I am considering rolling it out internally at my workplace, but it
> isnt quite ready yet.
> 
> Corey
> 

It looks quite nice but seems a little intrusive.  I haven't installed
it yet so can't really say.  It doesn't look like it would be an easy
"apt-get install ebox" without messing up your current system.

I think the important part is to get at least three items working right
away:

1) User, Group management including Samba if installed and enabled.
2) Samba configuration of shares etc.
3) Printer configuration and queue management.

This would take care of lots of small business servers right out of the
box.  Currently there is no way to add Samba users even if using gst
remotely, there is no option.