Tag: software

  • homelab Samba

    Samba, oh Samba. Let’s start with this, I am not a fan of Samba on native OSes. I believe that this has almost nothing to do with Samba itself and everything to do with the tooling around it. Specifically, the tooling to create the access configuration file. In my view there are at least two…

  • homelab Proxmox

    In all candor, Proxmox is partially in the homelab because it was the first open source type 1 hypervisor I came across. While quite powerful, I had no desire to run Openstack in the homelab. I had concerns about the long term viability of vmware (they have proven to be justified) and, showing my ignorance, I never…

  • homelab Pi‐hole

    Pi-hole should have been installed second. Unfortunately, it was near number 10 or so. Servers started arriving and I wanted to get them on the network. I also had not picked out a naming convention for the servers (ultimately decided to use Marvel characters) so setting up static IP addresses in DNS was mostly off…

  • homelab pfSense

    I chose pfSense as the firewall. Not claiming it was after some exhaustive search, it wasn’t. I know that there are other options, here are some of the reasons pfSense was selected. I do have a suggestion here, if you plan on deploying a standalone DNS/DHCP server make it the second software installed. I retrofit…