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Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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!

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (19 children)

I do, for a multitude of reasons

Easier management of family computers
an authoritative source for Authentik SSO
Learning experience, I'm also heavy Linux, but I try to maintain an OS agnostic philosophy with my skill set so I can have options in my career
I was bored
Again, since I like to maintain an OS agnostic philosophy I have a healthy mix of Windows, Linux and MacOS devices, and you CAN in fact join Linux (w/ SSSD) and MacOS to a domain too

In addition to what others have said with roaming profiles and such:

DO NOT SET YOUR AD DOMAIN AS THE SAME DOMAIN OF A WEB ADDRESS YOU USE

I..er...someone... Found themselves in this situation and have been in a mess since lmao

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Can you explain your disclaimer? You suggest not setting your AD domain to a web address you use, like one for self hosted sites? So you buy 2 domains, one for AD and one for sites? Or you use an internal domain for AD?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In shorter terms to what the other comment said, your website won't work in networks that use DNS served by your DC. The website is fine on the Internet, but less so at home or at an office/on a VPN if you're an enterprise.
"I can't go to example.com on the VPN!" was a semi common ticket at my last company 🙃

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