Hi there,
I'm completely new here, so Hi everyone!
I work for an Acoustics and Noise Control Consultancy and we're just about to move office (to one about 3 times as big). We have 4 full-time workers and about 4 others who are in the office on a part time basis.
When every one is in the office it's kinda manic at the moment!
The office was bult for about 3 people and a few file cabinets!
hmmm...
Anyway, to the query:
I'm trying to get our network to become a corporate network when we get to our new offices.
Currently all PC's (Dell, mainly) run XP Home annoyingly.
We currently have a DLink Modem-Router with 4 port switch, to which I've also connected a Netgear FS108 8 port switch.
What I'd like to do is have a Dedicated File/Mail/Print Server, so all my colleagues can retrieve their own emails and retrieve all their office info from one place etc.
How is the best way to do this?
The software that I think would be best, while remaining Windows Based, is:
1. XP Pro on all client machines running MS Outlook for email and internal mail
2. Server 2003 or latest edition on the server
Do I need to create a Domain style network rather than just using IP and Subnet?
How do I do all this?!
My Computer Science degree never went into it, just Linux/Unix based instead, which is useless to me.
Thank you all so much in advance,
Si
I'm completely new here, so Hi everyone!
I work for an Acoustics and Noise Control Consultancy and we're just about to move office (to one about 3 times as big). We have 4 full-time workers and about 4 others who are in the office on a part time basis.
When every one is in the office it's kinda manic at the moment!
The office was bult for about 3 people and a few file cabinets!
hmmm...
Anyway, to the query:
I'm trying to get our network to become a corporate network when we get to our new offices.
Currently all PC's (Dell, mainly) run XP Home annoyingly.
We currently have a DLink Modem-Router with 4 port switch, to which I've also connected a Netgear FS108 8 port switch.
What I'd like to do is have a Dedicated File/Mail/Print Server, so all my colleagues can retrieve their own emails and retrieve all their office info from one place etc.
How is the best way to do this?
The software that I think would be best, while remaining Windows Based, is:
1. XP Pro on all client machines running MS Outlook for email and internal mail
2. Server 2003 or latest edition on the server
Do I need to create a Domain style network rather than just using IP and Subnet?
How do I do all this?!
My Computer Science degree never went into it, just Linux/Unix based instead, which is useless to me.
Thank you all so much in advance,
Si