Newbie Question(s)

From: WrkWatchr (rshrove_at_cmegroup-inc.com)
Date: 03/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 14:03:00 GMT

I met Ralph and several others at the San Antonio computer show last weekend. I was looking for am alternative to NT/2000 server for a small home network and fileserver.

 After talking with everyone, I was convinced that Linux was worth a try and ended up with both SUsE 8.2 professional and personal editions. I installed the professional edition on an older 750 MHz AMD machine with 13 gig hd and 256 meg of memory. After what seemed to take forever, I finally got the drive repartitioned and 8.2 pro installed. I was able to get the OS loaded and running as well as getting my email connection working and am impressed with what I see so far.

Here is where my problems begin (began??). I have read the books that came with the personal edition as well as spent a considerable amount of time online surfing and reading everything I have been able to find regarding two specific subjects that I can understand - adding hard drives and Networking. I have tried a variety of known good hard drives that I have laying around and while it appears that they are there (hdc1 or hdd1) but there seems to be no way to see anything that is on the drives. I really wanted this machine to be a file server so deleting all the files and starting from scratch isn't what I had envisioned.

As for the server use, I have read enough to assume that SAMBA is probably what I need to use to set this machine up as a file server. While Samba is on the distribution and using YAST and I appear to have installed it, I can't find it so I can do any of the configuration that I need to do to make it a server. I have enough experience with server usage that while my peer-to-peer at the house has worked OK, I am outgrowing it and there is no way I have the time, let alone the inclination to make the investment to learn something as quirky and unstable as MS NT or 2000 Server which is why using Linux as a server platform really appealed to me.

Other than these two "glitches" LINUX" has been rock solid and seems to work fine. I feel that I am about 95% of my way into making this thing work, but I haven't a clue as to where to go next. Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks

Roy

A real newbie

P.S. I have even downloaded the latest version of SUsE, but don't have a clue what needs to go on what CD so I can make a bootable/installable CD set from them.

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