The default installations for SuSE, Mandrake or RedHat will give you all
(or more) you need to
start off.
Suggest using Arkeia for network tape backups, Samba for workgroups and
ipchains (gfcc is nice) for
firewalling.
SuSE has the best of all distros documentation for getting things started
and networking with windoze.
jk
At 08:13 PM 8/9/00, RonL wrote:
>This server will be for file backup primarily but might incorporate E-mail
>also at some point in the future.
>
>Ron
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Bob Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 12:52 PM
>Subject: Re: File Server
>
>
> > Ron LeVine wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, Now I am venturing into a realm of computing that I don't know
> > > much about. I have need of a file server. Wheat is the best/least
> > > painful way to do this. Security is an issue so please take that
> > > into consideration.
> >
> > Give us more info. You need a file server for what? Workgroup
> > document sharing, a home mp3 archive, or a public ftp.kernel.org
> > mirror are all file servers, but they're different. (-:
> >
> > If you're trying to do the workgroup document sharing thing, check out
> > Samba. It's a pain to configure, but once it's up it works dandy.
> > It's probably part of your Linux distribution.
> >
> > --
> > K<bob>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jogger-egg.com/
> >
> >
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