> I think you mean 'nuts' :-D > If you do, then I must be a double nut, I run two rpi4's with a DC on > each (less electric). I wouldn't use them for a large business, but > they are ideal for my small home test domain.I mean it's for the dogs! (Yeah, I meant nuts. Perhaps I should have said "glutton for punishment" instead.) I've been more enamored with Pi's in the past. But I've been bit in the backside too many time by abrupt SD card failures. The $30/year (or so) I pay to run a XCP hypervisor vs a Pi is totally worth it for me, because it saves me time, and frustration. (And it has a ton of additional utility that the Pi doesn't.) I think you can run regular SSD's on Pi's now - and perhaps that would alleviate my biggest peeve about Pi's - but it wouldn't make up for a ton of other utility having a real VM setup with all the advantages for testing; snapshots, spinning up test environments, etc. (I even run pihole on a XCP based VM - instead of a Pi.) But IMO, if running a Pi was the only way to run the DC, I'd still recommend that over not, to the OP.
On Sun, 2021-10-24 at 12:34 -0700, Gregory Sloop via samba wrote:> > I think you mean 'nuts' :-D > > If you do, then I must be a double nut, I run two rpi4's with a DC > > on > > each (less electric). I wouldn't use them for a large business, but > > they are ideal for my small home test domain. > > I mean it's for the dogs! > > (Yeah, I meant nuts. Perhaps I should have said "glutton for > punishment" instead.) > > I've been more enamored with Pi's in the past. But I've been bit in > the backside too many time by abrupt SD card failures.That is a problem, SD cards are okay for general tinkering, but I wouldn't run a DC on one.> The $30/year (or so) I pay to run a XCP hypervisor vs a Pi is totally > worth it for me, because it saves me time, and frustration. > (And it has a ton of additional utility that the Pi doesn't.) > > I think you can run regular SSD's on Pi's now - and perhaps that > would alleviate my biggest peeve about Pi's -I should have said, one of my DC's uses a SSD, the other USB HDD.> but it wouldn't make up for a ton of other utility having a real VM > setup with all the advantages for testing; snapshots, spinning up > test environments, etc. (I even run pihole on a XCP based VM - > instead of a Pi.)Whatever floats your boat, as I said, there are numerous ways of running a DC, all of them are better than running a workgroup, as I also said, I have been there, done that, never again. Rowland
On 10/24/21 14:34, Gregory Sloop via samba wrote:> > >> I think you mean 'nuts' :-D >> If you do, then I must be a double nut, I run two rpi4's with a DC on >> each (less electric). I wouldn't use them for a large business, but >> they are ideal for my small home test domain. > > I mean it's for the dogs! > > (Yeah, I meant nuts. Perhaps I should have said "glutton for punishment" instead.) > > I've been more enamored with Pi's in the past. But I've been bit in the backside too many time by abrupt SD card failures. > The $30/year (or so) I pay to run a XCP hypervisor vs a Pi is totally worth it for me, because it saves me time, and frustration. > (And it has a ton of additional utility that the Pi doesn't.) > > I think you can run regular SSD's on Pi's now - and perhaps that would alleviate my biggest peeve about Pi's - but it wouldn't make up for a ton of other utility having a real VM setup with all the advantages for testing; snapshots, spinning up test environments, etc. (I even run pihole on a XCP based VM - instead of a Pi.) > > But IMO, if running a Pi was the only way to run the DC, I'd still recommend that over not, to the OP. > >For what it's worth, I'm doing a Samba deployment right now where they only have one server available for Samba (previously, a PDC). So I'm running Samba-AD-DC in an LXD container on this server, connected to a public facing bridge. Works great. If you only have linux machines, Samba is absolutely not the tool you want. As already mentioned, NFS does exactly what you want already.