small office setup

englishpremier

englishpremier

englishpremier

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Hi there

I work in a small office with 4 PCs and one laptop. The network is very basic and the computers all run different 'home' versions of XP or Vista.

The network looks as follows.

ASDL---Router----Switch-----Pcs

PC1 is a workstation but also contains all the data we need on a daily basis (10gb). This is accessible via a shared drive mapped onthe other computers. Not ideal. This is backed-up to a usb drive every night.

PC2 is a workstation and a print server.

The other PCs and laptops ar workstations.

We are having a new pc delivered tomorrow and I'm tasked with turning one of the old computers into a file/print/fax server. I'd use Linux but it would take me a while to setup (i'm not 100% familiar with it for these tasks) and i'm leaving soon and no-one else would understand it.

so i'll be using either windows xp or 2000. The new set-up should be


ADSL--Router--PC0 (print/file/fax server)----switch----PCs

To do the tasks listed will need any other software? I also want to automate the back up.


Whats the best way to go about this? I have budgeted 7 hours for setup and implementation.
 
Guys-- using what the be the spare PC to file/print and fax serve is my only choice.

If i had my way we'd do a a lot of things different but its a small office (with expansion extremely unlikely) with a small office mentality.

5 connections will be maximum, hell we only have 4 phone lines and some of the girls do telesales.
 
I'm not concerned with print slowing things down.

The main printer is currently attached to my workstation and it is perfectly fine, unless i'm really giving it some - but then that because they got me a pc with Vista and on 768mb ram.
 
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