zhill29

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How did a simple phone call become so problematic? in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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Walgreens CEO says anti-shoplifting strategy backfired: 'When you lock things up…you don't sell as many of them’ in c/nottheonion@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Stopped at my local Best Buy the other day. Needed an SSD that was locked behind glass. After attempting to get help for a half hour I ordered one on eBay from the parking lot and drove home. I've honestly tried to support brick and mortar where I can but I give up.

Options for SMB shares without a single point of failure. in c/homelab@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Looks like Gluster also requires 3 servers.

Options for SMB shares without a single point of failure. in c/homelab@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

My understanding is that allows one server to present storage from multiple 'back end' servers, thus still being a single point of failure, right?

Maybe, it could be separate shares on separate servers presented as a single 'host' by a Windows cluster, this would be more storage efficient than replication and the only single point of failure would be any given back end server that would only affect 1-2 shared folders rather than all of them, which might be acceptable. Or I could be way the hell off with my understanding of DFS....

Edit: Did a bit more research, it seems DFS does do a redundant namespace that can handle failover. That might actually be exactly what I need. Thanks!

Options for SMB shares without a single point of failure. in c/homelab@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Automatic failover, basically should a VM lock up in a way that monitoring/HA failover isn't triggered can another VM be picking up the slack.

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Options for SMB shares without a single point of failure. (lemmy.world)
 

Why I'm dabbling in this is a very long story, but lets assume I only have 2 servers at my disposal and want Windows Server VMs providing SMB shares without a single point of failure. Proxmox and HyperV are my options for hypervisors.

Ceph is out for a few reasons, most notably only having 2 servers, 1Gb networking and the Windows Server VM would still be a single point of failure. I've been reading up on Windows Storage Spaces and if I'm understanding correctly it seems I could cluster 2 physical or virtual servers, replicate the data between the 2 and present the SMB share as the cluster name/IP rather than individual servers.

Before I spend too much time setting up Windows clusters, are there any other options I should be looking into?

Looking for help with TrueNAS/AD/Linux setup. in c/homelab@lemmy.ml
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

I understand that, I've tried both domain=CompanyWork and domain=CompanyWork.internal in my cred file and directly in fstab both result in the permission error when mounting the TrueNAS share but work just fine when mounting a share provided by Windows Server.

Looking for help with TrueNAS/AD/Linux setup. in c/homelab@lemmy.ml
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I'm assuming the domain=ip should be the IP address of the AD server right? That's what I entered and still no luck. Same permission denied error as my past attempts.

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Looking for help with TrueNAS/AD/Linux setup. (lemmy.world)
 

I've managed to get TrueNAS connected to Active Directory and created a share that I can access from an AD account on a Windows client just fine. However when I try to mount the share on Ubuntu Server 24.04 I keep getting permission/logon failure.

In my fstab entry I've tried every combo I can think of.

domain=domain,user=user,password=pass domain=domain.local,user=user,password=pass user=domain\user,password=pass user=domain.local\user,password=pass

I've also tried a separate credentials file with every one of those combinations as well as versions 2.1 and 3.0. I've got no problem mounting shares from the Windows server without even specifying the domain.

At this point I'm pretty sure I'm missing a setting on TrueNAS but no idea what. Any ideas?

October 14, 2025... in c/memes@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, if someone made a blowjob machine that required an OS, it would probably be Linux. Just sayin.

Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I'd agree the OPNsense UI is probably more intuitive if you've never touched PFSense but I found the OPNsense UI difficult coming from many years of PF.

Any recommendation for a cheap, small #firewall for my #homelab ? I realized I can’t control easily what goes out of my network only via DNS block lists in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] zhill29@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

I've been using an R210ii with PFSense for like 8 years now. It's been rock solid and only sips like 20 watts.