unRAID 6 as a domain controller?

[Robbie Ferguson]

Is there a ready-mix domain controller for unRAID 6? I've got a customer hypervisor which is using a VM of Windows Server 2003 for its DC. With the death of 2k3, we're pulling the box and wiping it down. We were thinking of putting Linux on it with an LDAP server, but curious if unRAID might be even nicer!

 

Looking forward to your thoughts.

 

PS - reason we're using DC is simple! We do not need it for mail anymore (already killed the Exchange box and moved them over to Zimbra) ... we only need user-level access to the filesystem behind the network shares. So we'll have \\servername\share\folder1... \\servername\share\folder2... Some users can read some folders, others can read/write, others can do nothing. It's important that we can control who has access to what, and what level of access they have (and realistically, I'm not opposed to doing this natively without a DC... using samba, for example... but need pretty high-level control).

 

Thanks!!

[dgaschk]

This would be a nice docker if it can be done in linux. Otherwise a VM.

[JonathanM]

This would be a nice docker if it can be done in linux. Otherwise a VM.

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/turnkeylinux/domain-controller-13.0/

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/domain-controller

http://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/announcing-docker-builds

Sounds very possible.

[Robbie Ferguson]

Thanks jonathanm,

Yes, it's certainly easy to do with Linux, but I'm new to Docker... from your first link though, it looks like Turnkey has already made a Docker build, eh? That's decent!

 

So I may be able to repurpose this old Win 2k3 server as an unRAID DC after all! That's a CHEAP solution eh?! (compare to the CALS for Windows + licensing!)

 

Thanks,

Robbie