And? Both of those can participate in Windows Domain Services.

Why not UnRaid or TrueNAS?

Okay well:

1. understandable
2. stop worrying so much, it can always be fixed
3. like I said, if you need the actual space, then make that plan
4. you can host anything on anything. If it’s not moving as fast as you want it, THEN think about switching to something else

Well that’s the definition of targeting an EFI volume to boot. Sounds like you have a config issue in your BIOS. Go through the menus and make sure it’s not looking for legacy boot types first, and only looking for UEFI, then set #3 as the primary boot target.

Or I guess just remove #1 as you said.

You should have a UEFU compatible setup, so just change the boot target to #3. If it’s not loading because it’s completely missing EFInboot info, I would be shocked.

Yes

1. Verify CUPS can actually print from that machine
2. If that’s your samba config, it seems a bit light
3. Enable guest_ok and see if it works then. If so, you need to delve deeper into your access permissions

https://documentation.ubuntu.com/server/how-to/samba/print-server/index.html

You also just share print targets via CUPS without Samba: https://www.cups.org/doc/sharing.html

Get a LiveUSB booted, then try running testdisk.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-testdisk-on-linux-and-recover-deleted-files

Lots of localcloud solutions have S3-compatible features. There’s also MinIO, Garage or Zenk if you just want to do it yourself.

Would like fries or a jetpack with that?

1. Tailscale is not a reverse proxy
2. There’s nothing you can’t “undo”. I think you’re overthinking this.
3. If you don’t need the extra storage, you don’t need a NAS.
4. You can run most of the services you mention on that OPi board right now as long as you have the system resources.

This is still from a USB drive or some sort, right?

Quite possible it’s just bad, especially if an SD in an adapter. Try and verify the drive with whatever tool you used to write it, and I bet it fails.

Netgear is…kinda shit. Is that 1Gb for the whole switch, or per-port? Any traffic steering on the network?

Okay, so what’s your network look like?

Specs on your router, is this wired or wireless to the Shield, how much other traffic are the other network clients pulling, and is this a constant, or just happens intermittently?

If you went from “everything works”, to “now it stutters”, then you either have a networking issue, or a resource issue on the source.

Did you update something recently?

Do you have network stats from your router?

Do some devices work fine, and others don’t?

1. Get logs. Always bring logs.
2. Rollback if available
3. Check GitHub for issues on affected projects to try and localize where the problem is

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VNC has long been abandoned by the engineering world. It’s inefficient, it has no transport security, and the implementations are very subjective.

VNC is dead. I’d try to talk them off that if it’s a requirement.

Ghost, Hugo, Jekyll…etc. all the same ones you’ll probably find by searching around.

Ghost is probably the most fleshed out if you’re looking for guardrails and a UI.