Linux

This article explains how to set up a Samba file server as an Active Directory domain member in a Docker container. This newer configuration differs from my earlier setup in one essential point: it uses POSIX instead of Windows ACLs, simplifying the administration and making it possible to modify files via other protocols than SMB. This post is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server with dockerized or virtualized services.

This article explains how to set up a Samba file server with Windows ACLs as a domain member in a Docker container. This post is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server with dockerized or virtualized services.

This article explains how to set up restic (with the resticprofile wrapper) for automated scheduled backups of your home server. The backups are protected from ransonmware through temporary immutability, which makes it much harder for attackers to delete your data. This post is part of my series on home automation, networking & self-hosting that shows how to install, configure, and run a home server with (dockerized or virtualized) services such as Home Assistant and ownCloud.

This post describes how I upgraded our webserver running WordPress on Apache from Ubuntu 20.04.5 LTS to 22.04.1 LTS. Please see this article for more information on the server’s original installation and configuration.

This is my first article in what is poised to become a series on installing, configuring, and running a home server with (dockerized or virtualized) services such as Home Assistant and ownCloud.

Linux famously stores all of its settings in files, making it easy to inspect, query, or backup the configuration with a plethora of tools, including Git. However, given that Git was conceived by the Linux community, there is surprisingly little integration. As a developer, I am used to managing everything with Git. Depending on my current degree of paranoia, I may put nearly or literally everything into version control. So where’s Git for Linux config files?

Note: The installation described in this article worked very well for me. However, nine years after publishing this post I replaced this setup with a more modern dockerized installation that is easier to maintain. PHP upgrades, especially, are a lot simpler.