[Cialug] old laptop as file server

[David Champion]

Just curious, are you just running this at home? If you're planning to 
use it for anything more than that, the speed of the USB storage is 
going to be a bottleneck. Does that laptop have USB 2.0?

You could try some of the NAS specific distros - I haven't used them 
personally, but I've heard a couple of them are pretty nice.

If you're just doing a simple Samba share for home or something, I 
usually just set it up with Webmin and go. The distro isn't that 
important - use what you like, but you'll probably want remove un-needed 
stuff for security / memory reasons.

-dc

Kendall Bailey wrote:
> 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
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