I’m curious as to why someone would need to do that short of having a bunch of users and a small office at home. Or maybe managing the family’s computers is easier that way?

I was considering a domain controller (biased towards linux since most servers/VMs are linux) but right now, for the homelab, it just seems like a shiny new toy to play with rather than something that can make life easier/more secure. There’s also the problem of HA and being locked out of your computer if the DC is down.

Tell me why you’re running it and the setup you’ve got that makes having a DC worth it.

Thanks!

  • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    1•9 months ago

    Thanks, you’re the second person who spoke about Neth server to me. I’ll take a look.

    I was planning to create a subdomain for it anyway, it’s just that I was misled that if I didn’t give it control over DNS for the network it wouldn’t function properly. That doesn’t seem to be case (which I’m glad for).

    I do not quite understand how the attack surface is increased other than running Windows on my network. I will have to look deeper into it myself.

    Thanks

    • @huskypenguin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      It may have been me both times. I went down a deep AD hole recently, and was trying to find an easy open source way to do it.

      My advice is to put whatever you choose into a vm and snapshot it right before you configure the AD. I think I reconfigured mine 8 times before I was happy.