Okay, here's the deal and maybe somebody can help me...
I'm working on a project for my uncle (he owns a day spa with his wife) and I'm working on setting up his network. Right now he has wires run but a terribly slow P2P network using only simple shares on different nodes to get files back/forth from one place to another. It's slow and inefficient.
Anyhow, I'm going to upgrade him to Windows 2000 server to run his network. There's a program that needs to be served to clients and that's no big deal.. I can set that up. However, the manager of his shop wants to get internet access for the office, except he wants to limit that access to only certain staff.
So first question... I'm going to use one computer as a domain controller for the network and the internet proxy. They will not be serving any outside visitors so the server will not be a webserver. I would need a second NIC to get the internet served to the network, correct? And will it be a difficult operation to get up and running after adding a second NIC (will it conflict with the first NIC, any special software, etc...)?
Next question is the proxy server. I was going to use Microsoft ISA Server but I've read that it is VERY complicated and inefficient. I *do* need to let only specific users have access to the internet, namely the managers and a few employees as well as the owners (my aunt/uncle). Is ISA server a good application to do this? And how hard is it to do it using ISA server?
I hope I made my questions pretty clear..
Let me know 🙂
I'm working on a project for my uncle (he owns a day spa with his wife) and I'm working on setting up his network. Right now he has wires run but a terribly slow P2P network using only simple shares on different nodes to get files back/forth from one place to another. It's slow and inefficient.
Anyhow, I'm going to upgrade him to Windows 2000 server to run his network. There's a program that needs to be served to clients and that's no big deal.. I can set that up. However, the manager of his shop wants to get internet access for the office, except he wants to limit that access to only certain staff.
So first question... I'm going to use one computer as a domain controller for the network and the internet proxy. They will not be serving any outside visitors so the server will not be a webserver. I would need a second NIC to get the internet served to the network, correct? And will it be a difficult operation to get up and running after adding a second NIC (will it conflict with the first NIC, any special software, etc...)?
Next question is the proxy server. I was going to use Microsoft ISA Server but I've read that it is VERY complicated and inefficient. I *do* need to let only specific users have access to the internet, namely the managers and a few employees as well as the owners (my aunt/uncle). Is ISA server a good application to do this? And how hard is it to do it using ISA server?
I hope I made my questions pretty clear..
Let me know 🙂
