When individuals contemplate IT they typically reflect on the ways in which they have been exposed and impacted by IT services. Often services like setting up computers and fixing printers come to mind. These services frequently equate to “IT help”...
Business Empowerment: Where Information Technology Intersects Growth
SSSD Linux Active Directory Authentication: Joining a Domain Without VPN
We have a few earlier blog posts on setting up Linux based Samba file shares with Active Directory authentication.Similarly, there are many documents on the Internet on configuring LDAP authentication to Active Directory.However, very little has...
Azure AD Authentication to Azure VM
Many organizations are adopting a cloud only approach to infrastructure. Why wouldn’t they? It’s scalable with predictable costs, and it can be accessed from virtually anywhere. However, authenticating with services and virtual machines on the cloud...
Active Directory Authenticated CIFS(Samba) File Sharing w/Ubuntu 20.04
A while back, we looked at setting up a CentOS 8 CIFS file server with Active Directory Authentication. This blog will go through the same exercise, except using Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS. While there are many approaches to making this setup work, we...
Linux Version 8 On Windows Subsystem for Linux
*This Blog is an updated version to the previously published blog Centos Linux Version 8 on Windows Subsystem for Linux
Last year we looked at installing CentOS 8 on Windows 10 WSL. In the past year, there have been many changes to both CentOS and...