Setting Up First DC at Home
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So I think I've finally got enough machines at home that I can warrant setting up a domain in my apartment. All my Windows licenses are Pro licenses so I can join all my machines to the domain. I would also like to setup my Linux boxes to authenticate via LDAP, or at least like some advice on that. A unified login for everything (except my NASes at this point) will be awesome! Pl.us, this is a good project. It'll be running on Server 2008 R2. I have 7 Pro and 8.1 Pro in my network, as well as Ubuntu Server 14.04. Any advice?
Thanks,
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I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.
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@coliver said:
I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.
I have no GUI on Ubuntu Server.
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Why are you doing this to yourself?
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@thanksaj said:
@coliver said:
I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.
I have no GUI on Ubuntu Server.
Sorry I was trying to remember the authentication module that Ubuntu has. It is called winbind
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto
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@IRJ Some of us are actually addicted to the pain man, it's an illness! But! The more we do it the better we get and the less it hurts
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@coliver said:
@thanksaj said:
@coliver said:
I think you said you use Ubuntu predominantly? If you use the GUI it is very simple to join the Ubuntu machine to an AD domain.
I have no GUI on Ubuntu Server.
Sorry I was trying to remember the authentication module that Ubuntu has. It is called winbind
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ActiveDirectoryWinbindHowto
Yup, found this.
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@MattSpeller said:
@IRJ Some of us are actually addicted to the pain man, it's an illness! But! The more we do it the better we get and the less it hurts
It's so true it hurts!
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So I tried joining one of my Linux VMs to the domain and it kinda worked but suddenly I couldn't login with domain creds and my local creds weren't working, so I was totally locked out of my own machine. Rolled back to my backup from 3AM and life is good. I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
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@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
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@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that
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@thanksaj said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that
Ya, sorry I didn't have a chance to look through it, just had some keywords that I remembered from when I tried it. Instead of rolling back you could always start it in single-user mode and look at the logs to see what caused your logins to fail. Troubleshooting is part of the fun.
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@coliver said:
@thanksaj said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that
Ya, sorry I didn't have a chance to look through it, just had some keywords that I remembered from when I tried it. Instead of rolling back you could always start it in single-user mode and look at the logs to see what caused your logins to fail. Troubleshooting is part of the fun.
Too late...rolled back already.
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@thanksaj said:
@coliver said:
@thanksaj said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that
Ya, sorry I didn't have a chance to look through it, just had some keywords that I remembered from when I tried it. Instead of rolling back you could always start it in single-user mode and look at the logs to see what caused your logins to fail. Troubleshooting is part of the fun.
Too late...rolled back already.
Besides, I couldn't access the system period. Kind of hard to troubleshoot when you can't connect via SSH and there is no GUI.
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@thanksaj said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that
I found this same walkthough on my own too though.
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@thanksaj said:
So I tried joining one of my Linux VMs to the domain and it kinda worked but suddenly I couldn't login with domain creds and my local creds weren't working, so I was totally locked out of my own machine. Rolled back to my backup from 3AM and life is good. I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Did you have keys set up first? Was root impacted too? Or did you forget to enable root first?
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@thanksaj said:
@MattSpeller said:
@thanksaj said:
I think I'll leave the Linux machines as is...
Don't you quit on me, that burning itching uncomfortable sensation is the learning... Besides then you can tell me how you did it and I can learn from your pain
LOL The walkthrough @coliver sent me is flawed...don't follow that
I've had some serious issues with the directions on Ubuntu's site. Their how-tos for really basic stuff that people test all of the time are fine. But once you get away from consumer tasks into real enterprise and business tasks things tend to be unmaintained and sometimes downright fake.
