[Samba] What's a preferred linux distribution for my needs...

[Merle Reine]

If you want the best, most up to date, easiest to manage and most widely 
used distro (that is free anyways) , use CentOS.  Latest version is 4.2 
and available here:

http://centos.org


Christian Tylko wrote:

>I've gone through samba.org and have tried to go through the samba archives
>(but there are too many posts and too little time) to get an answer.
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>I would like to set up samba for simple file sharing (non-domain) using an
>un-attended PC; i.e. I want the PC to be able to turn on or recover from a
>power failure and load and run samba without any manual intervention
>whatsoever.
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>Could someone please suggest an appropriate, simple and compact linux
>distribution I could use? I think that once I have that running properly
>samba should be relatively simple for the config I need.
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>A number of years ago I had a linux box running as a NAT router.the whole
>thing ran off a floppy disk. Obviously this box would have one or more large
>HD's so it can boot off one of the HD's.it's the simplicity I'm looking for.
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>Any chance there's a pre-packaged linux distribution with samba ready to
>install?
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>Many thanks for any help.
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>Chris T
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