On 16/12/2022 08:55, Jeff Gaines wrote:
As part of my networking adventures I wondered what would be involved in >>setting up my home network as some sort of domain (I don't even know the >>proper terminology) so that my home computer could join that domain and
do whatever domainy things it wanted to - like we had at work where by
some magic my files were kept on a central server and Windows treated it
as "My Documents".
Wouldn't recommend it. Find a non "active directory" way of doing the
above. Just use a NAS and map drives?
A poorly configured windows domain is just asking to get hacked and worse >cryptolocked, way too many things to secure - every thing needs to be on >point with regard to updates and versions etc...
As part of my networking adventures I wondered what would be involved in setting up my home network as some sort of domain (I don't even know the proper terminology) so that my home computer could join that domain and
do whatever domainy things it wanted to - like we had at work where by
some magic my files were kept on a central server and Windows treated it
as "My Documents".
As part of my networking adventures I wondered what would be involved in setting up my home network as some sort of domain (I don't even know the proper terminology) so that my home computer could join that domain and do whatever domainy things it wanted to - like we had at work where by some magic my files were kept on a central server and Windows treated it as "My Documents".
My main laptop has Win Pro as do my two desktops. Other laptops will have Ubuntu so I think they could all join a domain. I have 3 or 4 spare (you
can tell I'm not married any more) machines that could act as chief
domainer which would presumably run a Linux server version.
I've tried Googling but they all think I want to set up a web serve at
home so I am obviously not using the right terminology.
Any thoughts/pointers appreciated.
Yes, it's interesting to understand how it works, and there will be videos
of
the basics of Windows Server online (particularly on LinkedIn, which took >over
the marvellous Lynda.com some years ago). But that knowledge is unlikely >actually to be useful unless and until you find yourself in a
medium-to-large
corporate environment.
On 16/12/2022 08:55, Jeff Gaines wrote:
As part of my networking adventures I wondered what would be involved
in setting up my home network as some sort of domain (I don't even
know the proper terminology) so that my home computer could join that
domain and do whatever domainy things it wanted to - like we had at
work where by some magic my files were kept on a central server and
Windows treated it as "My Documents".
Wouldn't recommend it. Find a non "active directory" way of doing the
above. Just use a NAS and map drives?
A poorly configured windows domain is just asking to get hacked and
worse cryptolocked, way too many things to secure - every thing needs to
be on point with regard to updates and versions etc...
I thought it might be interesting to try my Z620 as a server of
some sort - Dual Xeons,
On 16 Dec 2022 at 12:41:21 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
I thought it might be interesting to try my Z620 as a server of
some sort - Dual Xeons,
Only do this if it's somewhere that the wattage will improve your home >heating. Otherwise that'll cost you £hundreds a year in electric bills
to have on all the time.
My 70W Dell server NAS is powered off as it'll cost me nearly £200/yr to
run continuously, and I don't consider that a worthwhile price. I power
it up on demand now.
But yes, it will be quicker than the QNAPs.
PS - The Z620 has never even got warm, perhaps I don't work it very hard?
On 17 Dec 2022 at 10:35:05 GMT, ""Jeff Gaines"" <jgnewsid@outlook.com>
wrote:
PS - The Z620 has never even got warm, perhaps I don't work it very hard?
The Dell maxes at 30C when it's using 65-70W so you can't trust that,
it's the same Xeon series as yours I think. E2640 machine with 64gig,
four 14TB HDDs and 10gigE; getting it down to that wattage was fun. >Pre-tuning it was 160W doing nothing. Using a wattmeter at the wall is >illuminating, when every watt-year costs £2.75 that 70W still adds up to
too much.
The Dell maxes at 30C when it's using 65-70W so you can't trust that,
it's the same Xeon series as yours I think. E2640 machine with 64gig,
four 14TB HDDs and 10gigE; getting it down to that wattage was fun. >Pre-tuning it was 160W doing nothing. Using a wattmeter at the wall is >illuminating, when every watt-year costs £2.75 that 70W still adds up to
too much.
That's just Dell being fuckin' eedjits.
On 17/12/2022 in message <k06ffsF73rfU1@mid.individual.net> Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
The Dell maxes at 30C when it's using 65-70W so you can't trust that,
it's the same Xeon series as yours I think. E2640 machine with 64gig,
four 14TB HDDs and 10gigE; getting it down to that wattage was fun.
Pre-tuning it was 160W doing nothing. Using a wattmeter at the wall is
illuminating, when every watt-year costs £2.75 that 70W still adds up to
too much.
Does your Dell have a "you've interfered with me I'm going to sulk" setting?
If I add a drive to the Z620 Windows won't recognise it unless I enter the BIOS and tell it not to worry everything is OK. I don't seem to have to change any settings, it just likes the reassurance.
My Dell M6800 laptop is similar. If I take the bottom off it defaults to
RAID mode at the next boot and I have to go in to the BIOS and change it
back to AHCI.
Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
That's just Dell being fuckin' eedjits.
In some cases Dell aren't idiots,
But then when Windows decides it's going to auto update overnight, you come back
to a laptop the next morning that's got fans at max revs, it's very hot, simply
because it's been sitting at a BIOS message saying "underpowered PSU" for several hours, press ESC and it will continue.
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