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A little history first:
I was volunteered (by my wife) to serve on the technology commitee for my chidren's private school. It is very small school, grades K-5 with about 80 students. As you can imagine, their budget is very small and strapped, hence no IT people.
At this point, there are 14 PC's that are networked peer to peer, 10 "student" PC's in lab, and 4 administration PC's. Window flavors are 98, ME, and XP pro. They are all connected to the internet via a router to DSL. This network could grow, but not by much, maybe by 10 - 20 PC's in the next few years.
I'm am not an expert by no means, but I do learn fast and I can manage to keep working what they have now. This is bad because as I see it now, I have the most expertise than anybody else working for the school or serving on any commitee. I have no problem with the hardware installation and setup, but lately I have been pressed into working on networking these machines together.
I need to figure out if this peer to peer network is enough, or should they migrate to a more sophisticated network. The admins do share files (database), something the students don't need to access. I think a file server is in order.
I guess I'm not looking for specfic answers here, but if someone can provide me with links that describe how server based networks are set up and mannaged would be great. I've scoured the web and I havn't found anything useful to me yet.
I was volunteered (by my wife) to serve on the technology commitee for my chidren's private school. It is very small school, grades K-5 with about 80 students. As you can imagine, their budget is very small and strapped, hence no IT people.
At this point, there are 14 PC's that are networked peer to peer, 10 "student" PC's in lab, and 4 administration PC's. Window flavors are 98, ME, and XP pro. They are all connected to the internet via a router to DSL. This network could grow, but not by much, maybe by 10 - 20 PC's in the next few years.
I'm am not an expert by no means, but I do learn fast and I can manage to keep working what they have now. This is bad because as I see it now, I have the most expertise than anybody else working for the school or serving on any commitee. I have no problem with the hardware installation and setup, but lately I have been pressed into working on networking these machines together.
I need to figure out if this peer to peer network is enough, or should they migrate to a more sophisticated network. The admins do share files (database), something the students don't need to access. I think a file server is in order.
I guess I'm not looking for specfic answers here, but if someone can provide me with links that describe how server based networks are set up and mannaged would be great. I've scoured the web and I havn't found anything useful to me yet.
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