https://homelab.tod.net/tags/ansible/Recent content in Ansible on Tod's HomelabHugoen-usSun, 05 Jul 2026 12:58:47 -0400https://homelab.tod.net/posts/off-windows/preparing-the-windows-fleet-for-samba/Sun, 05 Jul 2026 12:58:47 -0400https://homelab.tod.net/posts/off-windows/preparing-the-windows-fleet-for-samba/<p><strong>Off Windows</strong> tracks removing every remaining Windows dependency from the lab, starting with the two domain controllers that gave the series its name. <a href="https://homelab.tod.net/posts/off-windows/migrating-active-directory-to-samba/">The next post in the series</a> covers the actual migration — an in-place replica join that swaps both Windows DCs for a Samba box named <code>sidious</code> without a single workstation noticing. This post covers the evening before that: getting the rest of the Windows fleet — the desktops, laptops, and <code>piett</code>, <a href="https://homelab.tod.net/posts/downsizing-the-homelab/why-im-replacing-a-homelab-that-still-works/">the Windows Server box running Veeam Backup &amp; Replication</a> and one of the two Windows-licensing reasons this whole series exists — under Ansible management and onto a trust chain that would survive the domain changing underneath them.</p>