I love it, it works. Running a server is super easy and the speed is quite nice for a free piece of software.

They apologized and admitted that it was a dumb thing to do.

It may have been me both times. I went down a deep AD hole recently, and was trying to find an easy open source way to do it.

My advice is to put whatever you choose into a vm and snapshot it right before you configure the AD. I think I reconfigured mine 8 times before I was happy.

I thought about it, and the one thing blueiris really gives you is a stellar mobile app.

If you’re not running it in a grocery store switch to frigate. It’s a little daunting at first but so much easier to maintain, especially with ai detection. And if you’re using home assistant it’s even better.

Samba v4 has been able to be a domain server forever and it’s free. You can also use Synology if you want it off the shelf.

Not the original commenter, but I don’t understand how that would increase your attack surface. The AD is inside the network, and if an attacker is already in, you’re compromised. There might be way to refrence a DNS server with a windows server, but then you’re running windows and your life is now much more difficult.

As per DNS, the AD server must be the DNS provider. If you run something like nethserver in a VM you can use it as a dns & ad server.

The domain thing, the AD server is the authorative for its domain. So if you set it as top level, like myhouse.c()m, it will refrence all dns requests to itself, and any subdomains will not appear. The reccomended way to get around this is to use a subdomain, like ad.myhouse.c()m. Or, maybe you have a domain name to burn and you just want to use that?

I am, and I’m using Neth Server. I use it only for an AD, TrueNAS for file storage and a few VMs, portainer for applications. It was for practice, but Neth makes it so easy, why not? And it can help with some LDAP applications (but I haven’t set them up yet)

Audiobook server does work with ebooks.

Matrix/Element has been the best for our group. You could also give rocket chat or Mattermost a spin.

Ok. That’s awesome. Thank you.

I went this GitHub and the one it references and I still don’t know what it does.

Use HeavyScript

Came across this last night - https://github.com/Handyfon/simplemobile

Yea I’d agree with that. My strategy has been to make folders for each campaign and use one world for multiple campaigns.

The 5E creation wizard module works pretty well but you still need to track changes with the book because it’s not perfect. It does levels pretty good too.

Since I’m using docker, I am considering using a second instance for another license. That way I can have two worlds always up, and with NFS mounting I can share art assets between both of them.

That being said, if you find a character manager please reply to this post. I’m always interested in that stuff. But I don’t have much hope since WotC is a bag of dicks (someday my campaign will go to pathfinder).

Docker is the easiest way to go.

There’s a ton of guides for must have plugins. I’m not home right now so I don’t have a list off the top of my head as to what I use.

Quick search is a must have. Get that one immediately.

If you’re doing a table you need something that allows you to control focus and move stuff. There’s a few plugins for that. The simplest is just pulling focus of the camera (can’t remember the name).

I’m a huge fan of dungeon draw add on, it lets you create simple maps like you would a battle map.

Assuming your running 5E and you want to keep your players off their computers you might look at the dnd beyond integrations. That way they can manage their char on dnd beyond and you can sync the changes to foundry with a plug-in.

Although there may be an phone plug-in that allows just a char sheet when used on mobile.

If you do have a bunch of dnd beyond content there’s another plug-in that will scrape everything and put it into a module in foundry, kind of like a local dnd beyond so all your players can have access.

There’s another plug-in that lets you print your characters as pdfs with an actual WotC sheet.

You can also upload your source books to foundry, and use another plug-in to hot link page positions. Then skills on the sheet can be set to auto open the page of the pdf.

I’ll try to dm you my plug-in list later this week. But there’s so much stuff, just dream it and it’s probably there.

Do you do pdf editing in nextcloud?

Foundry does it all including a character wizard for 5e

Just google “nextcloud frustration”

Out of curiosity what are you using nextcloud for? Most people use it for public facing collab and sharing, and it’s an absolute beast to maintain because it’s so complicated.