Samba: Setup an Active Directory









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unfortunately Microsoft has deceided to discontinue its Small Buisiness Server and for small environments you not really want to buy an Windows Server and install them as an Active Directory Domain Controller. When Microsofts Cloud isn’t also an option then you can use Samba :-).
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Linux: Setup ntp server

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linux can, of course 🙂 , act as an ntp server.

For debian 9 the following steps are necessary.
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Samba: Setup for Windows Previous Versions Support


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this post describes how to setup samba to provide filesystem snapshots to Windows in its “Previous Versions” tab.

Install your prefered Linux Distribution. In this tutorial debian 9 stretch.
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Linux: Using ssh-agent

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if you do not always want to enter your private key password/passphrase when using certificate based ssh or scp connections then ssh-agent is your friend 🙂 .
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Windows: Disable/delay Windows Feature Updates

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when Microsoft releases a new Feature Version Windows 10 (i.e. 1809, 1803, 1709…) there are often some problems (Data loss, Feature/Tools removed, Boot issues…) with it and Microsoft have to fix it.
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