[Samba] domain-free multi-user use cases

Gregory Sloop gregs at sloop.net
Sun Oct 24 19:34:39 UTC 2021



> 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.




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