Re: Network attached storage

[Steve B <steve@xxxxxxx>]

Why not e-smith. You would get all the other services but you need not use
them. Answer a few questions and its up. remove keyboard & screen.
Admin by web

At 09:58 17/05/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>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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