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Changing a Proxmox NFS Server IP When pvesm set Says You Can’t

This one looked like it should take about thirty seconds. My Synology NAS had moved to a new static IP address. One of my Proxmox storage entries still pointed at the old address. So I did the obvious thing: Proxmox…

  • Paul Huckle
  • 19 August 2026
  • Projects, Domain / ADCU, Homelab, Synology

Running Active Directory on a Synology DS224+: Why I Kept It Instead of Windows Server

When I first started experimenting with Active Directory in Realm Labs, the obvious platform was Windows Server. That’s what Active Directory is built around, after all. I already had Windows Server running virtually under Proxmox, which gave me somewhere to…

  • Paul Huckle
  • 19 August 2026
  • Lab Notes, Docker, Homelab, Synology

Fixing Docker Permissions on a Synology NFS Share

Docker permissions can be confusing enough on a normal Linux machine. Add a Synology NAS, an NFS share and containers running under different user IDs, and things get interesting very quickly. This particular problem appeared when I started storing application…

  • Paul Huckle
  • 18 August 2026
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