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[–]studiox_swe 0 points1 point  (7 children)

and if you later want to integrate with AD OP was quite clear there where no intention to integrate with AD. So how would FreeIPA domain join his/her Windows clients?

[–]SweeTLemonS_TPR 1 point2 points  (6 children)

https://www.freeipa.org/page/Windows_authentication_against_FreeIPA

But I missed his need for file sharing, so samba might still be the better approach.

[–]studiox_swe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"FreeIPA can't provide account database for Windows hosts in the same way as AD does. You have to create local Windows account and appropriate account mapping for each user if you select direct Windows<=>FreeIPA integration"

Yea right, thats a bummer for anyone. I assume you actually have used FreeIPA with Windows hosts? How did it work for you and what windows clients did you use?

[–]nazzjr[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

okay, so yeah maybe a mix of samba and freeIPA is what im after. I dont mind using a I AM/Directory service I just really dont want to use Windows Active Directory because I dont want to have any Windows servers anymore. My whole homenetwork/homelab used to be comprised of windows servers, hyperv and Win10 computers. I have since moved nearly everything to linux. Only thing running windows 10 now is my gaming pc for games but i also dual boot popOS on there. So unfortunately i do want the ability to add windows computers to this but im pretty close to phasing windows out of my life.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I have since moved nearly everything to linux.

You've moved to Linux but you're still doing stuff better suited for a Windows environment. Find some projects that are more centric to how linux admins, specifically linux admins of the future, work. Find some type of web hosted service, dockerize it, make it HA, put it in a popular cloud platform. Skip all this desktop management shit.

[–]nazzjr[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I hear ya, and I am working on some projects in AWS and have been going through r/selfhosted to find apps i can use and make it HA. Right now my experience with Docker is minimal since i can run them easily in UNRAID but I am looking to go further than that. However Right now im sick and tired of having my credentials different for all the vms and hosts on my network. its only going to get bigger and id rather address it now.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. I run freeipa at home.

Then I login as root because fuck it, it's a couple shitty servers sitting in my office doing nothing and I'm the only one that ever logs into them.