Re: Network attached storage

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxx>]

This looks good - Downloading the iso as we speak.  I'll probably try
=
some
of the other tools on some other linxu boxes I have.

Matthew

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve B" <steve@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Network attached storage


Why not e-smith. You would get all the other services but you need not
use<=
BR>
them. Answer a few questions and its up. remove keyboard & screen.
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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
dat=
a
>should anything happen to my main pc.  I've had servers in the
pas=
t, 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 =A321
(=
came
>with a 3.2 gig samsung that I then sold on ebay for =A324!!!) and
poppe=
d a
>10 gig drive (just experimental) in it.
>
>I've tried several configurations for this machine, all of which I'm
no=
t
>overly happy with.  My latest experiment is windows 98 lite to
ser=
ve 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
d=
o
>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
an=
d
>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
th=
is - 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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