Domain Controller¶

A standalone domain controller is used to authenticate users to hosts that are connected to the refol.us domain. The host is a Windows Server 2022 virtual machine hosted in Proxmox.

Virtual Machine¶

The virtual machine is configured in Proxmox with the following properties.

• Memory: 4.00 GiB
• Processors: 4 (1 sockets, 4 cores)[host]
• BIOS: OVMF (UEFI)
• Display: Default
• Machine: pc-q35-9.0
• SCSI Controller: VirtIO SCSI single
• Hard Disk (ide0): linstor_storage, size=32G
• Network Device (net0): e1000e, bridge=vmbr0
• EFI Disk: linstor_storage, size=4056K
• TPM State, linstor_storage, size=4M

Properties¶

• Operating system: Windows Server 2022
• OS Disk: 32GB
• Memory: 4GB
• CPU: 3 sockets, 1 core
• Hostname: ad0
• IP address: 192.168.2.252
• DNS 1: 192.168.2.254
• DNS 2: 8.8.8.8

Active Directory¶

The domain controller provides Microsoft Active Directory authentication to hosts and applications that connect to the refol.us domain.

LDAP¶

Active Directory Lightweight Services (ADLS) is installed to in order for applications that supports LDAP to authenticate to Active Directory.