[Samba] Newbie question but an Easy one

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 12:47:34PM -0500, Craig Ham wrote:
> Our school needs to replace our Novell server.
> We have a collection of XP Pro computers and a few XP Home, Win98, Win95
> and Win2000 computers.
> All we need is file sharing.
> 
> Can Samba be setup so that all these computers can access a file share (F:\
> or G:\)  and run the program on the client pc?

Yes.

> What would be the minimum HW required for Samba server?

Depends on the client load. Shouldn't be much - you should
be able to use any generic Linux distro.

Jeremy.