That machine could serve alright as a home server, although installing the server edition would be much preferable to a desktop. A GUI would take a hefty chunk out of your available RAM. (Gnome is big, but I'm not sure about xubuntu's RAM footprint) Samba is the main package that you will need. <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpSamba</a>. <div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 19, 2008 12:28 AM, Raymond Lee <<a href="mailto:raycml@gmail.com">raycml@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have an IBM desktop PC (about Windows 98 2nd release(or whatever it was called that started support USB devices) time frame). I have added to a total of 192MB. I want to turn it into a home server for other machines (one Windows Vista home basic, one Windows XP Pro) for access of multimedia data (photos and music) by attaching an 80GB or 160GB PATA drives which are dirt cheap now. Do you think it is a feasible solution? I think I'll need Samba. Is it included in the desktop version or the server version of Ubuntu? Considering the power of the system being on the low end, should I do Xubuntu? If so, again, is Samba included? If this sounds ok, what about I move a step forward by installing a RAID adapter and run disk mirroring? Are there any such adapters (PCI bus) that are supported by Ubuntu? Are there any online resources for help in starting Samba on Ubuntu? Thanks a lot! Raymond -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Matthew Clarke