[Cialug] old laptop as file server

[Kendall Bailey]

I have an old Thinkpad 770e with 192MB RAM (I think).  It has XUbuntu
6.06 installed, and I'd like to use it as a file server with USB
attached storage.  So just Samba and SSH would need to be running.
Any advice?  Anyone using a live CD distro that's designed for this?
Biggest concern is security.  I'll want something like DenyHosts
running and SSH to be up to date.  Should I just run Debian stable and
configure by hand, or is there an easier way?

Thanks,
Kendall