If you are running this machine as a file server, why do you want to have KDE at all? I would have thought that the machine itself would work most efficiently without it, although I can see that some management tools are easier to use from within KDE. You don't need KDE to run Samba for example. You can configure it via text files if you want. Just a thought.

My project is to set up a Linux file server for a school's 20 machine windows 95/98/2k network (includes wireless nodes).

When I install SuSE, the process seems to go OK, at the end of it I am presented with the KDE desktop. However, when I reboot, the loading process crashes the computer when the windows manager is being loaded

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