I run Active Directory to manage my users and groups. Most of my servers run Linux, and I also run a Synology DiskStation that serves files via NFS and CIFS. To keep file permissions and ownership ...

I have a Synology DiskStation providing file services to my home and lab networks. It works great as-is for SMB access, but NFS access was problematic because the automatic UID / GID generation did...

I’m loving the experience on Write.as so far. But, there was one thing bothering me - I wanted to make a couple adjustments to the code blocks on my posts. Specifically, I wanted to enable horizont...

I use pfSense for my home networks. For externally available services, I prefer to use the HAProxy package rather than setting up port forwarding. This allows me to do various checks and modificati...

I was setting up a new Shibboleth IdP in my lab to run some tests. When integrating it with my Active Directory domain, I wanted to use the objectGUID attribute as a unique user identifier. It meet...

I recently started using Obsidian, and I wanted to acheive a seemingly simple goal - to point it at my Documents folder on my Mac and iPad. I really wanted the simplicity of having a single area fo...

I spent way more time than expected getting a few different resources imported to existing CloudFormation stacks. It seems like it should be easy, but there were a couple issues I ran into along th...