On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 09:42 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to set up a simple file server in office. > > The main requirements are: > 1. windows share access (samba) > 2. ftp access > 3. scp access > 4. http read only access > > There will be a number of directories with different access > permissions for different users and groups. > > I'd like to know whether there are any existing solutions that > would > allow this out-of-the-box? We can pretty much configure 1-3 > ourselves > and with some help probably get 4 (http) going with just a > linux box. > However, if there's already solution - why reinvent the wheel. > > I've been advised to look into DMSs, however that's slightly > more than > what I need for relatively simple file sharing.
SuSE (10.3) is a good fit and has the best sysadm tools to get the job done both GUI and curses for remote admin (IMHO nothing else comes close) It is also trivial to do this with ubuntu. More admin required, but easy anyway (unless you want a public non passwd samba share :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
