Re: Network attached storage

["Steve D" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

Matthew,

Well I use Mandrake, I just never installed X or any of the window
managers,
surely you can do this with with RedHat?
I also have webmin installed which alows me to configure most of the
things
I need to do. (Though I still can't get bloody telnet or ssh
running...)
Webmin is a web interface which allows you to configure many aspects of
a
linux system including samba. MUCH better than SWAT whcih I use once about
1
and a half years ago IIRC, and thought it was crap :(

With a linux install have you tried selecting the "Expert"
install setting I
have seen on many distribution installs, you should be able to select
all
the individual packages, even if have to install X and ke or what ever,
you
just don't have to use it, from memory the setups ask whether to got
straight to an X login or whether to stay on a command line prompt.


Steve D

"Regular people say 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. Engineers say:
'If it
ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.'"


----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Norman
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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.
<SNIP>

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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