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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Yeah, an old machine with an IDE WiFi card would work fine. You don't need a lot of grunt for a fileserver. I recommend Linux and Samba. That's what I'm using for my fileserving in my home network--an antique machine running a very minimal Gentoo with Samba. It lives by my desk here, but I could just as easily put it elsewhere.
You could also get one of those swank Shuttle small-form-factor machines and stick it under the shoes in your closet.
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Haha, that would be tight. I'm working on crafting up a fileserver myself. I've already got a kickin' Cyrix 250mhz webserver running Windows XP + Apache. It's easy for me to update my webpage and upload files, but it's evidently too easy and is probably very insecure (windows file sharing = not best idea ever, hell, my family can get in and f with it).
I'm considering switching to Linux, or at the least, some version of Windows Server ..... anything that will allow me to configure access based on user logons of OTHER computers. Otherwise, if anyone has suggestions on how to do this WITHOUT XP server, please inform me
Linux will take some time but it will certainly be more secure and obviously more efficient on this machine. ATM in order to tweak the machine I connect through VNC, but I've got a KVM switch now and I'll have to hook that up at some point.
My main question is - If i made a linux file/webserver, how would I allow everyone on my home network (all running windows) to connect to it?