[Malvern] Recommendations for File Servers

[Andrew McKenzie]

For a file server I can not recommend freeNAS enough, you can setup Samba, 
NFS, FTP, SSH etc file shares it takes about 2 miniutes to setup and is 
based on BSD, the whole distro comes to about 16mb in size too! so you can 
fit 4 HDD in the machine and run the server off an old 32mb usbkey.

Well worth a go.

As for a firewall I too recommend that you use Smoothwall, it is just a 
pleasure to use, no fuss no hassle and it's up and running in no time, but 
you will need a seperate box to run it on than the FreeNAS box.

Andy M.

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