----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:58
AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Network attached
storage
For a while now I've been toying with the idea
of
having a Network Attached Storage box hidden away somewhere on my LAN- to
protect my data should anything happen to my main pc. I've had
servers
in the past, but the hassle of having them on 24/7 or turning them on so I
can
get at my data has always been too much.
I've purchased a cyrix 180mhz set-top box
machine from ebay for £21 (came with a 3.2 gig samsung that I then sold on
ebay for £24!!!) and popped a 10 gig drive (just experimental) in
it.
I've tried several configurations for this
machine, all of which I'm not overly happy with. My latest experiment
is
windows 98 lite to serve my lan, but I want a more elegant solution than
that.
Before that I was using Red Hat 7.2 and Samba
-
but whenever I had to do any configuration on it I ended up having to run X
which ran like a dog. Even though it was a lower power machine - a 10
meg mp3 file copied accross my lan in about 2 seconds - enough for
me.
What I would like is a light weight linux
distro
that just had samba and swat (web administration of samba) Idealy a
web
linux admin tool on it as well, so it really performed just like the
commercial NAS storage like the snapservers. I'm sure that linux MUST
be
the best way of doing this - but I'm completely out of my depth with
it. And I just want the samba stuff - without all the other
linux
stuff to confuse myself with.
Can anyone point me in a direction of a linux
distro that just does NAS?
Ta!
Matthew
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more information: http://www.automatedhome.co.uk
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