having a bit of a brain freeze....
i'll make this short and sweet,
where i work has a company that provides us with software/hardware/server support(but they charge an arm and a leg just to ring them for a 'chat'). we have a number of pc's in the office, but i wanna link them to five pc's on the production floor, but i have only 1 ethernet cable running to the production floor that comes from the server. if i install a 5 port switch can i just hook all the pc's up and that is that.
i'm guessing that the server provider will require me to have some sort of admin access to allow this to happen but i can deal with that as an aside problem. i'd really only be looking for the 5 pc's hdd's to be seen by the office pc's so that they can dump work orders onto them.
any ideas how to do that, would a 5 port switch work fine?
i'll make this short and sweet,
where i work has a company that provides us with software/hardware/server support(but they charge an arm and a leg just to ring them for a 'chat'). we have a number of pc's in the office, but i wanna link them to five pc's on the production floor, but i have only 1 ethernet cable running to the production floor that comes from the server. if i install a 5 port switch can i just hook all the pc's up and that is that.
i'm guessing that the server provider will require me to have some sort of admin access to allow this to happen but i can deal with that as an aside problem. i'd really only be looking for the 5 pc's hdd's to be seen by the office pc's so that they can dump work orders onto them.
any ideas how to do that, would a 5 port switch work fine?
