Active Directory

Never boring: Gitlab, AD, and LDAP in general

While making our internal network services ready to scale once they need, I recently added most internal services (e. g. Mediawiki, bug trackers, and whatever there is to add to a centrally admin’d SSO domain). Not too surprisingly, there are several caveats, most of which need no mention here (Google to the rescue, as most times). However, the most horrifying piece of work was integrating Gitlab, not just a free, but a great software (in almost any other aspect).

Sync Center: Permission denied

AD, client PC, documents folder redirected to a file server and there to a share’s subfolder (e. g. //fileserver/usershares/%username%), CSC enabled by default (standard as of Windows Server 2K8 FWIK), multiple domain users logging in to that client. While logged in as User1, the Sync Center reports errors as Error while syncing //fileserver/usershares/User2: Permission denied.

Raspberry Pi als AD-Controller fürs NAS

In dieser Anleitung dokumentiere ich das Installieren und Einrichten eines voll funktionsfähigen Active Directory-Domänenservers (“Domain Controller”) auf Basis von Samba4 und Bind9 mit dem Ziel, eine AD-Domäne zu betreiben und deren Einstellungen, Nutzer, Datei- und Druckdienste sowie Computer-, Benutzer- und Gruppeneinstellungen so weit wie möglich bequem von einem beliebigen Windows (7)-Rechner mit Hilfe der Remote Server Administration Tools vornehmen zu können.