First i though i could post this in the distro forum but, there no place for me to post it there so I post it here, cause it some what relate to networking

I'm looking for a small linux distro that can turn an old pc into a Network Attached Storage. And I found this h**p://w*w.serverelements.com/naslite.php It really neat, it needed very little of resource to operate, but there is one thing missing, no users, or group management that mean everyone get the same rights on the server, that is really bad. My question to you all Linux lover is, is there any other small linux distro available out there that meet my requriment. I don't want to install the whole Linux distro.

thanks

YOU MUST BE JOCKING right?
no offense THERE ARE NO STUPID QUESTIONS you know but you made me laugh. the reason it looked funny for me, because i think you didn't install linux at all, and if you did then haven't you noticed that you can CHOOSE whatever packets you want, so that your distro get smaller? anyway there are tons of distro's just go to www.linux.org press distributions and in category section select "minimalist", and thats it! read as much as you like!

I'm not good at linux but i did install a couple times. I know there is option where it let user customize what to install. In Red Hat (now Fedora) there are three option, one is for desktop, server, and the other i can't remember. The the minimum size required to install was 1 gigs\. That why I ask.

thats what i meant! THE Desktop environment is the HEAVIEST part: X11, KDE and Gnome are around 300mb EACH, and they ALL are installed if you choose desktop environment- thats where your 1gb is going! i'm not good at linux too, but i know the numbers there is even a small distro that fits in one floppy, but i don't know its name just one question: i don't understand what you meant with
>>"I'm looking for a small linux distro that can turn an old pc into a Network Attached Storage"
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tell me what do you need from linux?

Find a nice, lean distro & set it up as a server. Voila! Network-attached storage.

A server is a lean, mean network machine. We don't need no steenkeeng GUIs, X-servers, or (once it's up & running) even a display, mouse, or keyboard. Just a system with plenty of hard disk space and a NIC.

i could never ever agree with you better PaganHippie

I just want small distro that can be use as a file server. No more or less.

i think then that you should use debian then there you can have a lot of options you can select or deselect, other option is slackware but it is harder to handle good luck to you