This is a detailed description about the steps to set up a Ubuntu based server (Ubuntu 5.10 - Breezy Badger) to act as file- and print server for Windows (tm) workstations in small workgroups.
Have that family computer laying around just gathering dust? You hate to throw perfectly good hardware away, and so you toss it aside and say "I will figure something out to do with it eventually". Well, here are a few ideas I have had in similar situ
You see, you can take pretty much any old PC you've got lying around and turn it into a file server with Linux and Samba. Oh, and you can also use it as a router, home gateway, firewall, whatever.