ok hear is my problem. i have a western digital 250gb my book and a 120 gb passport hard drive. My 250gb keeps breaking and i think it has something todo with the fact that i use it with my laptop and have to plug it in and unplug everytime i want to use it. So i got the idea i have this OLD computer a 466mhz celeron and 192mb of ram and a 8gb hard drive all working fin got old mother board and plugged it all in put to ethernet cards in and bridged them. plugged the 250gb hard drive in for lil test got everything shareing (xp pro by the way). It worked fine watching vids off of it when i was close and my wifi was strong but when i got down to two bars left on my wifi the vids would get a bit stuttery. Wut i want to know is are there any better NAS ideas from wut u see hear. Not very good with linux thats y i did not use it on the NAS box. I want to know of any way to make it faster or to have a better running system please help. Thanks!

im sorry but i have no idea what nas is, could you elaborate
also could you refrain from text talk, "wut" and the likes

NAS as in a network attached stoarge. sry about the wuts and likes its a habit

ok cheers, as for linux it is very simple (when did you last try it)

linix mint dosent work lolzawrdsa

wut kind of linux would i use. xubuntu or like straight ubuntu or something else

depends on system specs (again with the wut)

Its only a 466mhz celeron 192mb of ram and integrated video card. thats all that the computer has. Not much i know What do you think i can do with it

hmmm and do you want to use it as a server or what do you intend to do with the machine ( i dont quite get the initial post)

hears what i want prolly not gonna happen. I want the computer to share that hard drive over my entire three computer network i am gonna leave that computer always on so that i can access the hard drive when i want from what ever computer i want any where the only issue was with my laptop and the wifi.

ahh ok a server, now setting up a linux server will be tricky for a new user as its all command line, however i will try look into it tonight (a gui linux server that is )

thanks so much man. I am really losted in this whole thing so up for any ideas. good day to you