-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thats good info. any modern linux distribution version will have everything you need. samba will be the easy way to share files with windows. with your other linux and mac you can do samba, nfs or even ssh based file shares. if you want to jump into bsd and learn that, this would be a good time to do so. it sounds like you are looking to gain experience - if so ... what are you looking to gain this for? just for more knowledge or a job? if you are looking to gain a certain type of experience - say Red Hat linux experience, then i would suggest going with an RPM based linux distribution - Red Hat, Fedora, or CentOS. if you are just looking to play and learn, any current version will have all that you need, as well as any of the bsd flavors. krishanson at acm.cs.umn.edu wrote: > Some more details as far as my experience and expectations. > > Experience: > I've been using Linux for three years, I use the command line as often as > I can. I've never used BSD, but I'm open to new experiences. > > Expectations: > I want this file server for a couple of reasons. > 1) I want to gain experience in administering a server, and I figure that > this will be a good way to gain some experience in dealing with servers on > my own time. > 2)I want to install Winblows XP Pro on my second machine, but I want to > save a bunch of files from it, so I will need something that can talk to > both Winblows, *nix, and, if possible (though not necessary at all), > computers running OS' from Apple Inc. > > Hardware: > Off the top of my head, my hardware for the server is 1.25 gigs of RAM, > Asus MOBO, ~500 Gigs of HDD space, split between two PATA drives and a > SATA drive, either 64MB or 128 MB GFX card (nvidia I believe), AMD Athlon > 2400 CPU. > > Security: > For security, I'm thinking ssh/tls, possibly scp. As far as security of > the OS, I'm thinking of installing ipcop, or relying on iptables. Beyond > that, I would rather have more options for security than I need, instead > of having more needs than I have options. > > > Misc: > I am not really looking into backup solutions or raids at the moment, as I > am piecing this server together from parts I already have, and HDD space > is (relatively) limited. Also, when I said "best," I should have said > "better suited to the task," what with "best" being relative. > > So I hope that helps clarify what I'm looking for, and I apologize if it's > long-winded, I tried to make it as short as possible. > > Thank you for the help, KH. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH1xzWvE9HrEfeE4cRAo0LAKCGWR41iWqrV2xMeV+Suudt/B0KJgCfZ+yW FqrAj8AobncMJ79c2JyxlRU= =13t8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----