Creating a linux server

[SiN_SiN]

Can some one please help me to create a linux server?

I would like to create a home office network which operates the same as my collge network!

At college I can acess my personal area from any computer within the college network, I dont have a clue how this is done, but I do no that the server is running linux but the computer operating systmes are windows.

Please help as I am a novice.

Thanks in advanced

:D

[markwolfe Veteran]

If you have "mapped drives" to a network resource, that is Samba running on those Linux boxes.

[SiN_SiN]

  markjensen said:

If you have "mapped drives" to a network resource, that is Samba running on those Linux boxes.

Ok but as I said im a novice lol

so I dont really understand what I will need to install to create a server

[markwolfe Veteran]

I haven't read through this, but this link seems to be a pretty detailed howto using Ubuntu to do what you are needing.

http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10

[SiN_SiN]

  markjensen said:

I haven't read through this, but this link seems to be a pretty detailed howto using Ubuntu to do what you are needing.

http://www.howtoforge.com/samba_setup_ubuntu_5.10

thanks ill try it out