How to set up a network domain at home? - Super User
superuser.com › questions › 420947My home network consists of 3 desktops (and one htpc in the future), 1 laptop that comes and goes (and is part of a work domain) and soon another laptop that will be mostly home based. I've thought that maybe the job of managing this network might be easier if I just set up a domain, network share and a user for each person with periodical backups.
What domain name to use for your home network
www.ctrl.blog › entry › homenet-domain-nameThere’s a definitive answer to this question, and you can find it in RFC 8375: use home.arpa. Never heard of it before? It wasn’t assigned as a special purpose top-level domain (spTLD) name for residential and small networks until 2018. The home.arpa spTLD isn’t a globally unique domain name, and you can’t resolve it across the internet. It’s only meant to be used inside a small network, such as your home network.
Network domain - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_domainA network domain is an administrative grouping of multiple private computer networks or local hosts within the same infrastructure. Domains can be identified using a domain name; domains which need to be accessible from the public Internet can be assigned a globally unique name within the Domain Name System (DNS). A domain controlleris a server that automates the logins, user groups, and architecture of a domai…