On Dec 21, 2007 5:57 PM, Stuart Thiessen <<a href="mailto:sthiessen@passitonservices.org">sthiessen@passitonservices.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
One experience both PC's are having is that the network connections<br>are not very stable.</blockquote><div><br>Can you give more details about what you mean by "not very stable?" Also, what wireless driver is he using? Did he have to go through some extra effort to get wireless working or did it just work by default? Also, what version of Ubuntu?
<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">2) For the office, would it be better to install something else that<br>would be more focused on fileserving to one Windows PC and 3 Macs?
</blockquote><div><br>Ubuntu server is good but it's really geared for people who want a plain vanilla server environment to build their foundation on. As an experienced sysadmin I love it. However, I might recommend someone with very specific needs to look for an appliance based Linux environment. There are a number of Linux/Samba NAS appliance distributions you may want to consider.
<br><br>Without knowing what you mean by "not very stable," I have to guess. My biggest networking related problem with NAS type boxes has been the lack of a master browser on the network preventing computers from seeing each other properly. The solution is to set up Samba to enable its WINS server and then tell your DHCP server to tell all the clients about it when they get their IP address. Doing this has solved my problems.
<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode