file sharing OS

ninja fetus

ninja fetus

I'm a thugged out gangsta
I've got a pII 466mhz celeron, 192mb ram, 4gb hdd and I want to use it as a file server. I know it won't be the fastest thing in the world, but I don't really mind. I just have one last thing to decide, an OS. It's currently running win2kpro sp4. Any recommendations for something that's better? I just need something reliable and easy. Not too concerned about security.
 
ninja fetus said:
I've got a pII 466mhz celeron, 192mb ram, 4gb hdd and I want to use it as a file server. I know it won't be the fastest thing in the world, but I don't really mind. I just have one last thing to decide, an OS. It's currently running win2kpro sp4. Any recommendations for something that's better? I just need something reliable and easy. Not too concerned about security.
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Mandriva 2006, SUSE/OpenSUSE 10, or CentOS 4.2. Very easy, reliable, free, and performs 250% better for Windows file sharing than a Windows server on the same hardware. Plus, if you set them up to be non-GUI they'll be a lot easier on that 192mb RAM.

All the best,
-AT
 
Just out of curiosity how would you do that? would you set up one partition for the OS and the other as a Windows file system because I know on my rig Windows can't read off the ReiserFS file system so you couldn't have one big partition...
(correct me if i'm wrong...)
 
Matt555 said:
(correct me if i'm wrong...)
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OK, you're wrong. :) Linux and UNIX systems can share files with Windows by using Samba. The filesystem really has little to do with it. As I said, 250% faster. The primary file server at the last office I set up is a Linux box, and 90% of the client OSes are Windows. Works perfectly.
 
Matt555 said:
Ahh okay, thats cool, I was just wondering, now I know... :)
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Yeah, the basic concept is the same except there are two layers of security instead of one, and for some reason it runs a whole lot faster.
 
changed system to a 1.0ghz t=bird @1.2ghz, 983mb ram (don't ask).

will be installing latest version of mandriva on it :)
 
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