Re: Linux for Network Attached Storage?

From: Randy McLaughlin (randy_at_nospam.com)
Date: 06/15/05 

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 12:56:29 -0500

"Andy Turner" <andyt@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:fvk0b1lrgod6545ccuqtsh176ekp5sn4c8@4ax.com...
>
> I have an old PC. Rather underpowered to run Windows XP, but I figured
> it's more than powerful enough to run as a file server, if I could
> find a dedicated lightweight OS for it. Is there an install of Linux
> that would help me turn an old PC into a NAS box? The PC I'm currently
> thinking of is an old P200 with 64mb RAM, though it's more of a
> general question really - I might be able to throw more hardware at
> it.
>
> Of course, being a Windows person, I'd want the storage to NTFS, if
> that's possible.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> andyt

As a windoze person you miss many points:

The file system is separated from the network access, using NTFS on a Linux
system is a kludge at best. Micro$loth does not release the technical
details of the NTFS.

A P200 with 64K is plenty especially if you don't use GUI.

Your biggest problem is it requires you to stop and learn what a computer
is.

Randy

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