Without making it die upon restarting :O
Today I went back to fiddling trying to get a Ubuntu set up as a file/web server. Last time I tried I failed with both samba and apache, I managed to compile apache from source, but couldn’t get it to work. So after a small amount of googling I found possibly the best help websites, http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper. It has everything stored on one place where it is easy to find, I started off with samba. No problem, then apache & php, yet again, no problem, I didn’t even have to open httpd.conf. Now I have a fully functioning LAMP + S (Samba) server.
I’m quite proud of myself for just under an hours worth of work, as now everything is setup and I know what I’m doing when my new hard drive comes on wednesday.