Re: [PCTECH] Old PC as internet gateway and file server

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

There are a couple all-in-solutions. But most of those are not free. Fedora 
is a good distribution, but not an all-in-one that you are looking for. I 
would recommend learning Linux if you are going to do this. I found a good 
book on Samba, I will have to send the name later as I don't remember the 
name.

On 6/5/05, Peter Colpaert <Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hi group,
> 
> My oldest PC has been rotated past the entire family, and was finally
> retired last week.
> 
> So now I have at my disposal a 350MHz PII with 320MB Ram, 2 HD's of
> 20GB, NIC (and 2 more in the closet) and a DVD reader.
> 
> I could of course try to sell the parts online, but I am tempted to
> convert this old thing into a do-it-all server, which would be firewall,
> proxy, internal POP & SMTP, DHCP, DNS and file server.
> 
> Currently, my own P4 has 2 NIC's, one to my cable modem and one to the
> internal LAN. I run 602LanSuite (freeware edition), which incorporates
> the above services.
> 
> <finally getting to the heart of the matter>
> Does anyone know of a free (linux?) solution that has all this?
> 
> I'm specifically looking at an all-in-one solution, considering that my
> linux knowledge is almost zero.
> 
> Any advice would be highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> --
> 
> Peter Colpaert
> 
> Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxxx
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> Scotty is smoking the dilithium crystals again, Jim
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> 
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