Is NS8 a direct replacement to the latest NS7

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I assumed that nethsecurity has AD users for vpn

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OPNsense can do AD and has the bells & whistles he requires, which it seems NethSecurity does not.

Like you, Iā€™m not yet capable of mind reading, and much less over distancesā€¦ :slight_smile:

And as @Gordo hasnā€™t replied, all of this is pure speculationā€¦

My 2 cents
Andy

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Read my original post.

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Hi @Gordo

Reading your original post, I do not see WHAT will not work with just NS8 and OPNsense.
AFAIK, your list is fulfilled. (Iā€™ve added to your list with the components NS8 or OPNsense which can do the trick).

  • Gateway (OPNsense)
  • Firewall with Intrusion detecting and Packet Inspection (OPNsense)
  • Mail Server (NS8)
  • Samba Server (NS8)
  • Samba Domain Controller (NS8)
  • VPN Server (Openvpn) (Authenticates against Samba DC) (OPNxense)
  • NextCloud Server (Authenticates against Samba DC) (NS8)
  • Web Proxy Server (OPNsense)

Yes, OpenVPN and Squid can both run on OPNsense and BOTH can support using AD users from NS8.

(In case youā€™re not aware of it, OPNsense can use AD - AD in NS7 or NS8 just needs a valid SSL cert, easily doable with LE.)

Reading this, I would assume you have the necessary capabilities / know-how:

but this statement

speaks the contrary.

I can not speak (yet) for NethSecurity, as I do not use / needed the firewall component of NS7 (I use OPNsense) and I have not yet tested NethSecurity, as this was not something urgent I needed.

Reading this, If youā€™re prepared to use three boxes instead of one or two means that the one box criteria is not that importantā€¦

If you would like to discuss anything of the above and actually get to see a route to get your system using NS8, feel free to contact me with a PM (or Telegram) and Iā€™ll see you up to speed. You wonā€™t be the first Iā€™ve helpedā€¦

But of course youā€™re still free to use the platform so badly concepted that they are already changeing their platform base - moving from FreeBSD to Linux, after championing BSD for so long. Yes, I do mean TrueNAS. (I was a longtime user of FreeNAS).

My offer stands.

My 2 cents
Andy

Note:

Iā€™m assuming the following:

  • our level of know-how are fairly similar
  • we both speak english (I can also speak German and French, if that helps)
  • We have less than 10 years age difference.

Iā€™m confidant we can find a solutionā€¦

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Sorry I have been unable to answer up until now.
The day after my last post I lost my Internet, I finally got it back day before yesterday. There was a ā€œfaultā€ in the ā€œOld Telephone Cableā€ that forms the last 600Metres of my connection. I wont go into why the system is like it is, but it was a change in policy after a change of Government.
So, now I can around to building my Opnsense Gateway, and getting that configured and up and running.
Then I can make the choice of which way I go behind that Gateway, whether itā€™s NS8 ot TrueNas (and I do know the history behind the move from FreeNas to TrueNas. From a Modified OS Distro to a Docker Style Server which can be Hosted on virtually ant flavor of Linux).
I have yet to catch up with the latest improvements in NS8.
Will probably look at that tomorrow.

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