On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 09:49 -0400, Josh Koffman wrote:
> Hi all. I've been asked to help out a small non-profit in setting up a
> little network in their new offices. The network isn't going to be
> anything intense, just a small server that will act as a repository
> for their files (at the moment they each keep a copy of the file...it
> makes versioning a nightmare) and possibly some printer sharing.
> 
> Cost is of course an issue, otherwise I'd just recommend buying one of
> the all in one server boxes available. There are a number of slightly
> older computers available, so I'm thinking about the possibility of
> making a Linux based box that took care of their needs.
>
> Here's the part that I'm stumbling at: there will be a mix of Windows
> and Mac users at the office. I can find howtos on how to make a
> Windows file server using Samba, but I have no idea how OSX does file
> sharing. 

AFAIK OSX supports windows file sharing seamlessly. It may also support
NFS (the "standard" file sharing in the Unix/Linux world), but I'm not
sure about that. Windows out of the box does not support NFS, so samba
is your best bet.

> Does anyone know of a Linux distribution that's tailored
> towards doing file and print sharing? Something like the ones that are
> tailored to be routers would be ideal.

Pretty much any modern distro will easily fill your needs. I'd can't
really recommend any distro other then Fedora, since I don't really have
much experience with any other anymore. That said, Fedora in it's
standard config can be a little resource hungry, and is certainly
overkill for your purposes. Others here will I'm sure be able to make a
better recommendation.

TTYL

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