[ale] Small Office Server Distro Recommendation

[patrckb at gmail.com (Patrick Bartkus)]

I have a friend who has a small, 2 1/2 person office. They have 3 PCs, a
laser printer, a color printer, and a laptop.

He presently is running MS-Workgroup networking between the systems. He
generally has the files on one system but sometimes he puts them on another
system. Sometimes he looses where he has put his files.

I would like to suggest that he convert one of his outdated systems to a
SaMBa file archive server and add a big disk or two. But I'm hesitant that
administering it will be more than he can handle. He has a PhD but not in
science :-). I would be willing to set it up for him but am not wanting to
be his IT staff.

Do you have a recommended distro that he can easily administer? I was
thinking FC5 with WebMin for a SaMBa config util but just not sure.

Patrick "Mr. Volunteer Tech Support"
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