Posted on Tue 26 February 2019 in blog
In the previous post, we set up a Samba 4 DC. In this post, we'll configure Winbind on that Linux machine so all of the Samba-controlled UIDs/GIDs will resolve to their AD names. We'll also set things up so we can SSH and sudo appropriately.
We'll assume that …
Posted on Mon 11 February 2019 in blog
Let's set up Samba 4 to serve as an Active Directory (AD) Domain Controller (DC) on Debian 9.
We'll start with a headless install of Debian 9, selecting only "SSH server" and "standard system utilities" during Software selection.
We'll also assume that your server is set up with the …
Posted on Wed 16 November 2016 in blog
Here I'll explain how to configure a Windows Server VM to act as a Python (PyInstaller) build server, running as a GitLab CI runner.
This is left as an exercise to the reader :-)
Simply follow this detailed guide:
Posted on Thu 14 April 2016 in blog
After the last post about running Wine in Docker, it was time to try and actually use the image to perform a build.
The first time I tried, the build crashed due to some sort of exception. It turns out the following sequence of events was to blame:
NMAKE, running …Posted on Wed 13 April 2016 in blog
I sometimes work with a legacy codebase that targets both Windows and Linux; the build system is GNU Make-based, and builds on Linux. For the Windows components, the build system invokes NMAKE, using Wine. Yes, it's messy; yes I want to replace it; but no there's no time budgeted …