Which distro for a file server on Windows network?

meadITmeadIT Member Posts: 581 ■■■■□□□□□□
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One of my clients has a decomissioned Windows server that no longer has a Windows license. They want to turn it into a file server, mostly to be used as backup storage. I haven't really gotten into the different Linux distros too much. Which would you suggest for this situation?
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  • pwjohnstonpwjohnston Member Posts: 441
    meadIT wrote:
    One of my clients has a decomissioned Windows server that no longer has a Windows license. They want to turn it into a file server, mostly to be used as backup storage. I haven't really gotten into the different Linux distros too much. Which would you suggest for this situation?

    Anything that runs Samba will work. I like RedHat, but that takes a license now so you can use Fedora or CentOS.
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