samba - Nov 2005 - What's a preferred linux distribution for my needs...

I've gone through samba.org and have tried to go through the samba archives
(but there are too many posts and too little time) to get an answer.

 

I would like to set up samba for simple file sharing (non-domain) using an
un-attended PC; i.e. I want the PC to be able to turn on or recover from a
power failure and load and run samba without any manual intervention
whatsoever.

 

Could someone please suggest an appropriate, simple and compact linux
distribution I could use? I think that once I have that running properly
samba should be relatively simple for the config I need.

 

A number of years ago I had a linux box running as a NAT router.the whole
thing ran off a floppy disk. Obviously this box would have one or more large
HD's so it can boot off one of the HD's.it's the simplicity I'm
looking for.

 

Any chance there's a pre-packaged linux distribution with samba ready to
install?

 

Many thanks for any help.

 

Chris T

Christian Tylko schrieb:

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> Could someone please suggest an appropriate, simple and compact linux
> distribution I could use? I think that once I have that running properly
> samba should be relatively simple for the config I need.
> 
>  
> 
> A number of years ago I had a linux box running as a NAT router.the whole
> thing ran off a floppy disk. Obviously this box would have one or more
large
> HD's so it can boot off one of the HD's.it's the simplicity
I'm looking for.
there is no good answer to such questions.

pick a distribution you know best, or your local Linux guru is running.

if you don't know any distro nor a Linux guru, throw a coin and pick one 
of the mainstream distros (Debian, Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva...).


-- 
Tomek
http://wpkg.org
WPKG - software deployment and upgrades with Samba

If you want the best, most up to date, easiest to manage and most widely 
used distro (that is free anyways) , use CentOS.  Latest version is 4.2 
and available here:

http://centos.org


Christian Tylko wrote:
>I've gone through samba.org and have tried to go through the samba
archives
>(but there are too many posts and too little time) to get an answer.
>
> 
>
>I would like to set up samba for simple file sharing (non-domain) using an
>un-attended PC; i.e. I want the PC to be able to turn on or recover from a
>power failure and load and run samba without any manual intervention
>whatsoever.
>
> 
>
>Could someone please suggest an appropriate, simple and compact linux
>distribution I could use? I think that once I have that running properly
>samba should be relatively simple for the config I need.
>
> 
>
>A number of years ago I had a linux box running as a NAT router.the whole
>thing ran off a floppy disk. Obviously this box would have one or more large
>HD's so it can boot off one of the HD's.it's the simplicity
I'm looking for.
>
> 
>
>Any chance there's a pre-packaged linux distribution with samba ready to
>install?
>
> 
>
>Many thanks for any help.
>
> 
>
>Chris T
>
> 
>
>  
>