Re: Network attached storage

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

I've tended to install everything as its such a pig to resolve
dependancies
later (for me anyway) - I used red hat up2date in the same manner of
windowsupdate as it required little user intervention to keep the
system
current.

webmin looks great (Thanks to chris as well)

Any other pointers?

Matthew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve D" <steve@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Network attached storage


> 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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