Which distro for a file server on Windows network?

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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pwjohnston

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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