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Information Sharing

July 13, 2025August 2, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Cybersecurity

Information sharing is paramount in cyber security. The unfortunate truth is that the bad guys are persistent, so their success

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Rambling 

Lost Time and Shifting Priorities

September 24, 2025September 24, 2025 Chris 0 Comments

TL;DR: I got pulled away and now I’m back with new ideas. It’s been a some time since I posted

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Problem Solving 

XCP-ng: A device with the name given already exists on the selected VM

August 11, 2025August 11, 2025 Chris 0 Comments copilot, Linux, Virtualization, Xen

Using the xe cli I ran into this error that was “wrong”. I knew the name didn’t already exist because

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How To 

Install Xen Orchestra virtual Appliance

August 3, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Linux, Virtualization, Xen

I recently installed XCP-ng and it was pretty straight forward. The host itself serves a GUI called XO Lite, but

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How To 

Install XCP-ng (Brief)

August 3, 2025August 3, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Linux, Virtualization, XCP-ng, Xen

While I’m more familiar with Proxmox and QEMU/KVM, I want to give XCP-ng a try to get my hands dirty

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Rambling 

New Project Time

August 1, 2025August 2, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Linux, Virtualization

Playing with Incus on a Raspberry PI and attempting to get a Samba DC setup were fun but I’m losing

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Rambling 

SambaDC is Not a Good Active Directory Replacement

July 4, 2025July 11, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Active Directory, Linux, Samba, Windows

It’s time to cut my losses. Ten years ago I setup Samba as a Domain Controller in my lab so

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Rambling 

One Month Update

June 25, 2025June 29, 2025 Chris 0 Comments

It’s a little funny to give a one-month update on a blog that’s been live for 2 years, but It’s

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How To 

Samba DC in a Linux Container (or Incus VM)

June 20, 2025June 28, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Active Directory, Containers, Incus, Linux, LXC, Raspberry Pi, Samba

In this how-to I will be installing Samba as an Active Directory Domain Controller for a new domain. I learned

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How To 

Create VLAN Aware Incus Bridge for DHCP Passthrough

June 9, 2025June 9, 2025 Chris 0 Comments Containers, Incus, Linux, Network, Raspberry Pi

“DHCP Passthrough” may not be the most accurate term for what we’re doing here, but it sounds a lot like

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