Re: [Samba] What's a preferred linux distribution for my needs...
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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
[Samba] 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Re: [Samba] What's a preferred linux distribution for my needs...
Christian Tylko schrieb: (...) 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
