Lormalinux Samba Fileserver Beta 1

Samba fileservers can be fun to have around. Besides thats, this one based on Slackware called Lormalinux Samba Fileserver, looks as if it would be a real blast to set up. Sometimes nothing quite makes for a quite weekend at home like a little technology project to get the blood pumping.

From the Lorma College in the Philippines comes another server release. This time it is a dedicated Samba fileserver based on Slackware 10. This is a departure from their desktop releases in that the have decided to use Slackware instead of Fedora. Being a former Slackware user (is there such a thing?) and having always been fond of Slack’s no nonsense approach, this release piqued my interest since I have a need for some storage of all my TV recordings. This review will focus on the installation, setup, configuration and a few gotchas I encountered.

I first read about this release on Distrowatch and immediately decided to grab the iso. Kudos to the Lorma folks for having a nice pipe to pull the iso from. The iso is approx 225MB. Size-wise it is not too bad at all.

My test box is as follows:
Celeron 733 with 256MB RAM, 120GB drive and using an Intel NIC. I deliberately chose a low end box I had laying around since a fileserver should not be a cpu hog.