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Office network, need a lot of help

Samson · 2002-07-13 11:57:11

I have decided that our network(s) need to be sorted out in work, for a number of reasons: *I want to get ADSL in, to save money, presently most of our PCs are using dial up (PTSN and ISDN) for E-mail and internet connectivity, and it's costing an absolute fortune in call charges. *I have two seperate (very small) peer to…

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#32 22-07-2002 11:09pm
The Cigarette Smoking Man

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Originally posted by Samson
As far as the server goes I'm going to buy a Dell 1400SC and put Win2K on it.
Which would be the better OS option for the server?
Microsoft OEM Windows 2000 Server €38.01 +VAT
or
Microsoft OEM Windows 2000 Professional +SP2 €173.55 +VAT

Put on W2K Server with service pack 2 and all the patches, you'll probably want to use Active Directory/DHCP/DNS/WINS at some point and you don't get any of that with W2K Pro. You should get 512MB RAM too.

(BTW those Dell servers are great - very well built. You press a button on the front and the side pops open making it really easy to add RAM, HDs etc. They also have the new 64bit PCI slots.)

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