>After reading about what Linux can do, I'd like to try and replace a server on our MS lan with a Linux box for sharing files.
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>Now the lan -- although small -- isn't the simplest, we have a firewall and a router from Sprint, but all I want the Linux box to do is act as a file sharing point. There's a NT4 Server box which is the PDC, I would want the login to be authenticated through that PDC. Seems simple enough and that's the way I want to keep it.
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>Would this be a job for SAMBA and which distibution would be most suited for this job?

Check out:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/SMB-HOWTO.html
JLK