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Currently I have an established Kubuntu Gusty server that is acting as a DNS, DHCP, Samba, NFS, apache, and mysql for my small home network.  This machine houses all of my pictures and other personal docs so they can be accessible from any computer in my small home network.

Because I have pictures and movies already on this box what would happen if I just ran the LinuxMCE installer over the top of this guy.  Would it function as needed or totally destroy the settings/configuration that I have worked on to build up my home server.

In a perfect world I could install LinuxMCE on this machine and turn it into my Media Center box as well as it continue to function as my file server for my home network.

Does anyone see any problems with this?

Currently I have an RHEL 4 box that acts as my main file server in small home network.  This RHEL box is doing: Samba, nfs, dhcp, dns, mysql, and apache.  All of these services are offered by an install of LinuxMCE.

Has anyone out there ever used an install of LinuxMCE to act as a fileserver among other things, then serve up all media content when called upon as well.

Ultimately I would like to replace my file server with an mce server that can do both, that is serving files via nfs or samba for my workstations, and serve media to a remote orbiter should that be needed.  My network is small and rarely ever if at all would the server be hit for NFS shares at the same time as it's service MCE requests.  My initial testing would indicate this wouldn't/shouldn't be a problem but so far I only have a test MCE environment and am working out the kinks.

Any help appreciated.