well, i've read through the unofficial samba doc site (from samba.org), and most of the 1st and part of the second chapter from the oreilly book on samba on the samba site, and it doesn't appear it should be that difficult.
it's probably changed a bit as well from the 2-3 years ago i last played with it, on a redhat box. that's probably part of the source of my distaste of redhat, becuase the whole thing was messed up.
anyways, it looks pretty simple, so i think imma give that a go.
i figure i'm going to do it like this. i'm going to copy over all the important stuff to my 100gb drive on my win box, i figure without the music videos i have roughly 60gb of data laying around. if i feel too attached to them, i can always drop them on the c drive for now. then the 120 will go in the server, and i'll use the 100gb as a detached storage unit for all the big stuff. basically just make a good image every month or so, and keep it nice and tidy packed up in a box for insurance. i'm thinking about maybe getting one of those external usb hard drive boxes maybe to store it in as well.
that should do pretty well, and this server should be pretty fast. i'm going to run FreeBSD 4.8-stable on it, methinks. not really a need i don't think to go to 5.1, i don't need opteron support or anything like that.
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