[Sderby] Home server query

[Adrian Wood]

Hello chaps! I've been subscribed to this lug for a while now, but this is
my first post... Be gentle, it's my first time. :)

Anyway, my aunt had an old PC, which recently went kaput after some 'help'
by a cousin. Despite my best efforts I couldn't repair it... It was showing
some very strrange problems which seemed to occur randomly. I won't go over
them here, it isn't important.

I resolved to buy her a new(er) system to replace it. But when I called her
to let her know, it turned out that, as with many mysetry problems, what I
couldn't fix with logic, technical logic and years of experience, she'd
manaed to repair by opening the system up and fiddling about!

The long and short is, I now have a 233 64MB system which I'm planning to
set up as a dedicated home server. It has the usual stuff: onboard LAN, USB,
CD and floppy drives etc.

I'm hoping to run a permanent FTP server, as well as my own e-mail server,
and I was wondering if anyone had any advice that could help me?

It will be connected to the internet through a Linksys hub/router. It will
need to allow external access to the server features, but without
interfering with the other PCs (which all run Windows, I'm afraid) use of
FTP and e-mail from other sources.

I have very limited Linux experience I'm afraid, but the specific
information I'm looking for is what distro would run well on that system,
what programs I should use to do what I want it to do, and instructions
(step-by-step if possible) on how to get those programs all set up and
running? And if anyone has any other ideas on what I could set up on this
thing, that would be useful as well!

Thanks in advance,

Adrian Wood